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Fall 2023
Mar 16, 2025 |
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| PORT 300 - Portuguese in the Community |
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An in-depth exploration of the Luso-African-Brazilian experience in the United States (US). This course promotes community engagement as a vehicle for greater linguistic fluency and cultural understanding. Class work focuses on expanding students' oral and written proficiency through discussion and analysis of historical developments and migration patterns, ethnographic studies, literature and film by and about Luso-African-Brazilians in the United States. Students are placed with community organizations in the Framingham, Massachusetts area and volunteer for sixteen (16) hours over the semester in order to develop an overarching project.
Prerequisite: PORT 201 Intermediate Portuguese I or PORT 225 Business Communication in Portuguese, or the equivalent placement test score; or permission of instructor.
1.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Non-Matriculated, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Directed Study, Lecture World Languages Department Course Attributes: Undergraduate Level Course Restrictions: May not be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Non-Matriculated May not be assigned one of the following Student Attributes: DGCE Student Prerequisites: PREREQ for PORT 300 General Requirements: ( May not be taken concurrently. ) or ( May not be taken concurrently. ) or ( Course or Test: PORT 201 May not be taken concurrently. ) or ( Course or Test: PORT 225 May not be taken concurrently. ) |
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