Portuguese 220 - TOPIC POR & BRAZIL LIT & CULT

Topics course. This intermediate language course will serve as a grammar review and will help students develop greater facility in oral expression, reading and writing, through work with a variety of digital, broadcast, and print media. Class discussions and assignments will consider key issues and trends in contemporary Brazilian society and culture as expressed through a selection of media forms and texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, websites, television and radio programs, advertisements, graphic novels, and films. Conducted in Portuguese. Prerequisite: POR100Y or POR125 or the equivalent.

Topic: Brazil in the News: Media, Society, and Popular Culture.