PORT 3180 - Portuguese III

• Acquires information relating to cultural traditions and issues, synthesizes and examines findings in original essays and cites references correctly in accordance with MLA guidelines.
• Analyzes cultural products and social practices in a detailed manner using frameworks established in disciplines related to coursework in modern languages, such as linguistics, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.
• Expresses her or himself orally with relative fluency and grammatical control of increasingly complex structures and incorporating occasional sophisticated terms.
• Interacts with a variety of authentic media of the target cultures (film, music, radio, Websites) and comprehends the culture-specific references as well as the Portuguese language.
• Understands and interprets complex written texts, both literary and journalistic.
• Writes short narratives, descriptions and summaries with sustained control of increasingly complex target-language sentence.