Portuguese and Brazil-related courses for the Spring Semester, 2008
* Portuguese Language Courses
* Core Curriculum
* Government
* History
* Music
* Social Studies
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE COURSES
_Portuguese A. Beginning Portuguese_
Portuguese Ad. Beginning Portuguese for Spanish Speakers
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff
Half course (spring term). M., W., F., at 12 or 1.
A continuation of Portuguese Ac. By the end of the second term, students
should be able to communicate easily with native speakers and be
acquainted with basic elements of Luso-Brazilian culture.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail but may be
taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line
on the Portuguese Ad website.
Prerequisite: Portuguese Ac.
Portuguese Ba. Introduction to Portuguese
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff
Half course (spring term). Section I: M., W., 3-5; Section II: Tu., Th.,
3-5.
A basic introductory course for students who can devote only one term to
the study of Portuguese. Teaches fundamental communication
skills-understanding, speaking, reading and writing-but does not offer a
complete study of grammar.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be
taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Not open to auditors. Section on-line
on the Portuguese Ba website.
Portuguese Cb. Intermediate Portuguese II
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30-1.
Aims to further develop the four communicative skills while expanding
students� background knowledge of the history and cultures of the
Portuguese-speaking world. Portuguese Cb covers the important grammar
points not studied in Portuguese Ca.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail. Section
on-line on the Portuguese Cb website.
Prerequisite: Portuguese Ca or permission of course head.
Portuguese 44. Images of Brazil: Contemporary Brazilian Cinema
Clémence Jouët-Pastré
Half course (spring term). M., W., 2:30-4.
Examines major Brazilian films in their historical, political, and
social context. Class discussion also focuses on documentaries, reviews,
and critical articles. In-depth textual and grammatical analysis,
vocabulary building, reflections on the similarities and differences of
the oral and written Portuguese will lead students to achieve a high
level of competency.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese. May not be taken Pass/Fail, but may be
taken Sat/Unsat by GSAS students. Section on-line on the Portuguese 44
website.
Prerequisite: Portuguese Ca/Cb or permission of course head.
Portuguese 60. Portuguese and the Community
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and staff.
Half course (spring term). W., Th., 3-4:30 plus four hours of service
per week.
An advanced language course examining the Luso-African-Brazilian
experience in the US. Promotes community engagement as a vehicle for
greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Students will be
placed with Boston-area community organizations and agencies. Class work
focuses on readings and films by and about Luis-African-Brazilians and
specific uses of Portuguese language from these communities. Authors
include D. Macedo, Braga Martes, Margolis, Sales, Albues, and Villas Boas.
Note: Section on-line on the Portuguese 60 website.
Prerequisite: Portuguese 37, 38 or a score of 100 on the Harvard
Placement Test.
Portuguese 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and members of the Department and Tutorial Board
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Advanced reading in topics not covered in regular courses.
Note: Limited to juniors and seniors.
Portuguese 97. Tutorial - Sophomore Year
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and members of the Department and Tutorial Board
Half course (spring term). W., 1-3.
Successful completion of one term of Portuguese 97 is required of all
concentrators in their sophomore year.
Portuguese 98. Tutorial - Junior Year
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and members of the Department and Tutorial Board
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Successful completion of one term of Portuguese 98r is required of all
honors concentrators. To enroll see course head.
Portuguese 99. Tutorial - Senior Year
Clémence Jouët-Pastré and members of the Department and Tutorial Board
Full course.
Hours to be arranged.
For honors seniors writing a thesis. Successful completion of one term
of Portuguese 99 is required of all honors concentrators. To enroll, see
course head.
Portuguese 155. Performing Arts, Literature and Culture in Modern Brazil
Catalog Number: 3301
Nicolau Sevcenko (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1-3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
One of the main features of Brazilian culture is the way by which all
forms of artistic creation tend to converge and coalesce into organic
units, more often than not centered on music and dance. This course will
try to explore and understand the driving forces behind this
multi-artistic instinct.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese.
Portuguese 227. Fernando Pessoa
Catalog Number: 7375
Joaquim-Francisco Coelho
Half course (spring term). M., 2-4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Study of the works of Portugal's most distinguished literary figure of
the 20th century as poet, critic, and prose writer, as well as his
relation to the corpus of Portuguese literature.
Note: Conducted in Portuguese and English.
Portuguese 266: Urban Explosion: City and Culture in Rio and Sao Paulo
Catalog Number: 8916
Nicolau Sevcenko (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
Half course (spring term). Th., 5-7 p.m.. EXAM GROUP: 18
Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, energetic centers of cultural creativity
in modern Brazil, also experienced exponential urban growth, laying
groundwork for extreme social tension, political unrest and widespread
violence. Can culture play a role to curb urban malaise?
Note: Conducted in Portuguese.
COURSES BY AREA OF STUDIES
_Core Curriculum:_
Foreign Cultures 74. Cultures of Southern Europe
Catalog Number: 0603
Michael Herzfeld
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12, and a weekly section to
be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 5
This is a survey of the modern cultures of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta,
Portugal, and Spain. Southern Europe has been viewed as both the fount
of "Western civilization" and as a poor and crime-ridden backwater; it
has been home to imperial powers and humiliated client-states alike.
Through the reading of anthropological field studies (urban and rural),
literary and historical portrayals, and artistic representations
(including film and opera), this course focuses on what such
contradictions mean for people in those countries at the level of
everyday life, and provides an account of differences as well as
similarities among the countries discussed.
_Government:_
Government 1295. Comparative Politics in Latin America
Catalog Number: 4241
Steven R. Levitsky
Half course (spring term). M., W., 2-3:30 and a section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines dynamics of political and economic change in modern Latin
America, focusing on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and
Venezuela. Topics include the rise of populism and import-substituting
industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary movements, the causes
and consequences of military rule, the politics of economic reform,
democratic transitions, and democratic consolidation. The course
analyzes these phenomena from a variety of different theoretical
perspectives, including cultural, dependency, institutionalist, and
leadership-centered approaches.
_History_
History 1759. The History of Latin America, 1914-2007
Catalog Number: 7328
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
A survey of Latin American societies and politics, from World War I to
the present, with emphasis on the conjunction of global and internal
changes to explain economic developments and struggles for power,
justice, progress, and security.
_Music:_
Music 194r : Special Topics: Proseminar
Harvard College/GSAS: 2846
Spring 2008
Professor Jason Stanyek
Meeting time (spring): F., 1-3
This interdisciplinary course will offer a series of interlocking
perspectives on the performative politics of Brazilian music and dance.
Using critical readings on Brazilian social, political and cultural
history we will engage with some of the key concepts and topics that
concern scholars working in the humanities and social sciences: race,
cultural politics, citizenship, violence, tourism, embodiment, gender,
sexuality, place, globalization, translation, political economy, power,
voice, diaspora, memory, and improvisation. At the center of the course
is a heightened attentiveness to the overlapping relationships between
sound and movement, the aural and the kinesthetic, music and dance. One
of our principal aims will be to consider how various forms of identity
(racial, gender, class, religious) are constructed and negotiated within
disparate contexts of music and dance performance (in religious
ceremonies, at informal gatherings, in the mass media, in carnival, on
stages and in concert halls, in recording studios, within cultural
institutions, etc.). We will also examine how the contours of racial
(and gender and class) politics in Brazilian society shifted over the
course of the twentieth century and how Brazilian social history has
made a rather complex braid with broader international and transnational
geographies. Course conducted in English.
_Social Studies:_
Social Studies 98cv. Authoritarianism and Democracy in Latin America
Catalog Number: 5595 Enrollment: Limited to 10.
Steven R. Levitsky
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2-4.
Examines regimes and regime change in Latin America, particularly
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela. Compares
modernization, Marxist, cultural, choice-centered, and institutionalist
approaches to explaining the military coups of the 1960s/1970s and
democratic transitions of the 1980s/1990s.
Note: This course will be lotteried.
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Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil