21&62:810:315. Portuguese for Business and Commerce (3)
Open to students who can demonstrate adequate reading/writing/conversational skills at the level of 21&62:810:132 Intermediate Portuguese. This includes NJIT students and students from graduate programs and NCAS. Conducted in Portuguese.
Intensive study of business and commercial Portuguese. Emphasis on practical business terminology and procedures used in business letters and documents, banking, trade, export and import, stock market, and modern-day global economic institutions. Familiarization with Portuguese business practices and cultural differences.

21&62:810:318. Brazilian and Lusophone World Literature in English Translation (3)
Fulfills literature requirement.
Reading and discussion of literary works representative of the different literary trends, movements, and authors of the Portuguese-speaking world (Angola, Mozambique,Cape Verde), with emphasis on Brazil.

21&62:810:321. Oral History of Newark's Ironbound
Fulfills interdisciplinary requirement.
Focuses on the Portuguese and Brazilian immigrant community of Newark's Ironbound neighborhood. Explores ethnographic fieldwork (participant observation and tape-recorded interviews) and compiling an oral history of the Ironbound. Readings of anthropological, literary and historical texts by and about Portuguese and Brazilian immigrants in the US. Issues covered in class will include: migratory patterns, adaptation and assimiliation, culture heritage, and immigrant identity.

21&62:810:342,343. Portuguese and Lusophone World Civilization and Culture (3,3)
Conducted in Portuguese.
Discussion of significant historical, social, and cultural trends in the Portuguese-speaking world from the colonial era to the present.

21&62:810:348 Portuguese Film and Literature (3)
Fulfills literature requirement.
This class provides a survey of twentieth century Portuguese film, exploring the interplay between literature and cinematic narrative. Class is conducted alternately in English and Portuguese.

21&62:810:351 Soccer, Samba and Spiritualism: Performance and Culture in Portugal and Brazil (3)
Fulfills interdisciplinary requirement.
This class is conducted in English and explores expressive culture in Portugal and Brazil. "Performance" is broadly defined to include religious worship, soccer spectatorship and urban festivity. Students will explore emblematic performance forms of Portugal and Brazil such as samba, fado, candomblé and soccer spectatorship to understand how these cultural forms participate in and comprise a "national culture."

21&62:810:423 Post-Revolutionary Portuguese Literature and Culture (3)
(Pending Approval)
Fulfills literature requirement.
This class examines the effects of dramatic political change on Portuguese literature, theater, and popular music. The "Flower Revolution" of 1974 ended four decades of authoritarianism and marked the beginning of a cultural renaissance in Portugal. This class will explore literature, art and music produced in the 1980s and 1990s, in order to analyze fascism's cultural legacies and the ways in which Portuguese authors have redefined their nation following the revolution and European unification. This class is conducted in Portuguese.