2026-2027 Course Catalog

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for the Undergraduate Minor in Portuguese

“Brazil is not for beginners,” once mused the world-renowned music composer and singer, Antônio Carlos Jobim. Portuguese minors gain an understanding of Brazil and a world connected through the circulation of Brazilian ideas, goods, and migrants. In the Portuguese minor, students gain knowledge of the language and hone communicative skills through a range of approaches, including diaspora and transnational studies; intersectional, cultural, and historical understandings of class, gender, race, and sexuality; and postcolonial studies. One of our strengths is that a Portuguese minor may include courses with Brazilian content taken in anthropology, comparative literature, ethnomusicology, global studies, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, among other fields. Not only from LAS, but also from ACES, Business, and Engineering, our minors follow local and global career paths and foster new visions of the world from a Brazilian and Portuguese-language standpoint.

for the Undergraduate Minor in Portuguese

Course List

 | Code | Title | Hours |

| --- | --- | --- | | PORT 401 | Intensive Intermediate Portuguese | 4 | | PORT 402 | Advanced Grammar | 3 | | Select at least 9 hours from the following list: | | 9 | | PORT 403 | Readings in Portuguese | | | PORT 404 | Studies in Luso-Brazilian Culture (may be repeated) | | | PORT 406 | Brazilian Film | | | PORT 410 | Topics in Brazilian Literature | | | Total Hours | | 16 |

for the Undergraduate Minor in Portuguese

1. Students learn and practice the language in written and spoken modes, formally and informally.
2. Students demonstrate cultural and linguistic literacy in relation to Portuguese and the ability to use concepts and methods across disciplines.
3. Students exhibit critical awareness of the tensions and opportunities inherent to globalist and universalist understandings.
4. Students evaluate power relations between dominant and subordinate groups in Brazil, especially in terms of class, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexuality.
5. Students gain a perspective on civil society and social justice in Brazil, Latin America, and what is sometimes called the Lusophone world.

for the Undergraduate Minor in Portuguese

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