PORTGSE 8APortuguese Conversation
Portuguese · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Designed to help beginner and intermediate students of Portuguese language improve their conversation skills through discussions, presentations, participation in events, and other communicative situations. Among other elements of speech, use of formal and informal speaking styles. Use of appropriate vocabulary to discuss issues relevant to students’ lives and to Afro-Luso-Brazilian culture.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 1, 11A, Portuguese Language Assessment Interview, or enrollment in any Portuguese course.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.15 · from text- all of
- PORTGSE 1
- PORTGSE 11A
- Portuguese Language Assessment Interview
- enrollment in any Portuguese course
- · could not read "Portuguese Language Assessment Interview" (no course number found)
- · could not read "enrollment in any Portuguese course" (no course number found)
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "course 1, 11A, Portuguese Language Assessment Interview, or enrollment in any Portuguese course" — grouping is a best reading
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PORTGSE 8A
- PORTGSE 1Elementary Portuguese
- PORTGSE 11AIntensive Portuguese
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.