University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 6 courses 16 total credits
“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.
| Total Hours | 16 credits |
Required Courses
Select at least 9 hours from the following list:
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PORT 401 | Intensive Intermediate Portuguese | 4 |
| PORT 402 | Advanced Grammar | 3 |
| PORT 403 | Readings in Portuguese | 3-4 |
| PORT 404 | Studies in Luso-Brazilian Culture | 3-4 |
| PORT 406 | Brazilian Film | 3-4 |
| PORT 410 | Topics in Brazilian Literature | 3-4 |
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