PORT 404

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Luso-Brazilian Culture

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Affords a broad understanding of Luso-Brazilian civilization and culture.

3 undergraduate hours. 2 or 4 graduate hours. May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: PORT 320 or equivalent or consent of instructor.

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PORT 404 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
61153	Lecture-Discussion	G4	10:00AM -11:20AM	MW	123 English Building	Karam, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: The Telenovela Section Info: TOPIC TITLE: "The Telenovela" Telenovelas are prime-time television serial melodramas broadcast six days a week for up to ten months. Frequently compared to soap operas in North America, telenovelas (often called novelas) are common across Latin America and possess a striking cultural and political valence in Brazil specifically. Since the 1970s, they have been exported to hundreds of countries around the world as well. Using interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, communications, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, this course explores how Brazilian telenovelas have reflected and shaped the class, race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and modernity. The key point is to grasp the power relations portrayed in the telenovela and the ways that telenovela viewers reproduce, endure, and/or circumvent such hierarchies. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
63230	Lecture-Discussion	I3	5:00PM -6:15PM	MW	1030 Foreign Languages Building	Goebel, R Goodman, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Brazil's Diasporas Section Info: PORT 404-I3/I4: "Brazil?s Diasporas: the movement of peoples to and from Brazil" (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) The arrival of Africans, Jews, Italians, Germans, Japanese, Portuguese, American Confederates, and dozens other groups to Brazil played a decisive role in the formation of Brazilian culture and society. This course looks at the many diasporas resulting from free and forced movement of peoples to Brazil, as well as the emigration of countless of Brazilians to various destinations in the global north. We will use a variety of historical, literary, and anthropological texts ? in addition to visual and musical sources ? to explore the phenomena of migration and diaspora in the broadest possible sense. Possible topics will include slavery and the emergence of Afro-Brazilian cultures and identities; historical mass immigration streams from Europe and Asia and the resultant ethic-national identities; Brazilian diasporas in Japan, Europe, and the United States; contemporary migrants in Brazil (Paraguayan, Bolivian, Haitian, etc). NO PREREQUISITES, TAUGHT IN ENGLISH Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
53228	Lecture-Discussion	I4	5:00PM -6:15PM	MW	1030 Foreign Languages Building	Goebel, R Goodman, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Brazil's Diasporas Section Info: PORT 404-I3/I4: "Brazil?s Diasporas: the movement of peoples to and from Brazil" (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) The arrival of Africans, Jews, Italians, Germans, Japanese, Portuguese, American Confederates, and dozens other groups to Brazil played a decisive role in the formation of Brazilian culture and society. This course looks at the many diasporas resulting from free and forced movement of peoples to Brazil, as well as the emigration of countless of Brazilians to various destinations in the global north. We will use a variety of historical, literary, and anthropological texts ? in addition to visual and musical sources ? to explore the phenomena of migration and diaspora in the broadest possible sense. Possible topics will include slavery and the emergence of Afro-Brazilian cultures and identities; historical mass immigration streams from Europe and Asia and the resultant ethic-national identities; Brazilian diasporas in Japan, Europe, and the United States; contemporary migrants in Brazil (Paraguayan, Bolivian, Haitian, etc). NO PREREQUISITES, TAUGHT IN ENGLISH
63231	Lecture-Discussion	U3	10:00AM -11:20AM	MW	123 English Building	Karam, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: The Telenovela Section Info: TOPIC TITLE: "The Telenovela" Telenovelas are prime-time television serial melodramas broadcast six days a week for up to ten months. Frequently compared to soap operas in North America, telenovelas (often called novelas) are common across Latin America and possess a striking cultural and political valence in Brazil specifically. Since the 1970s, they have been exported to hundreds of countries around the world as well. Using interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, communications, media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, this course explores how Brazilian telenovelas have reflected and shaped the class, race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and modernity. The key point is to grasp the power relations portrayed in the telenovela and the ways that telenovela viewers reproduce, endure, and/or circumvent such hierarchies. : Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.