Portuguese Minor

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

PORT 401Intensive Intermediate Portuguese4
PORT 402Advanced Grammar3
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 Hours16

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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