Covers speaking, reading, writing, listening, and culture of Portuguese-speaking world.

Advanced practice of oral and written Portuguese. Reading and discussions of texts, review of grammar, and vocabulary practice.

Major issues shaping Latin American and Caribbean societies including the changing constructions of race, ethnicity, gender and class as well as expressions of popular cultures and revolutionary practices. Taught in English.

Intensive basic grammar, reading and auditory comprehension. Native or acquired fluency in Spanish required.

Ideas, images, and representations of the tropics have historically portrayed them as exotic, lush, underdeveloped, and resource-rich places. This course interrogates how concepts of tropicality and nature have influenced the culture, politics, and society of a particular country: Brazil. We examine how nature, a key concept in tropicality, has been represented and understood in different terms throughout history and how these representations have informed environmental discourses and attitudes. Furthermore, we critically analyze how racialized notions of the tropics that shaped structures of oppression have been constructed, perpetuated, and contested. Our objects of analysis will consist of artistic depictions of the tropical world in addition to films, music, literature, and critical thought.