Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.

This independent study course is designed for students working on honors projects. Written permission of the concentration advisor (Prof. Sobral) is required. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.

Reading in Portuguese language, literature, civilization, and bilingual studies. Conducted via Portuguese readings and discussions. Section numbers vary by instructor. Please check Banner for the correct section number and CRN to use when registering for this course.

For graduate students who have met the tuition requirement and are paying the registration fee to continue active enrollment while preparing for a preliminary examination.

For graduate students who have met the residency requirement and are continuing research on a full time basis.

This course serves as an accelerated introduction to Portuguese, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It is also an introduction to the diverse cultures of Portuguese-speaking societies. Specifically, the course will look into the ethnic, racial, social, and gender diversity in these cultures. Designed for students who have no prior knowledge of Portuguese, POBS 0105 meets five hours per week.

Designed to improve the students' ability in contemporary spoken and written Portuguese. Using such cultural items as short stories, plays, films, videos, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular music, students discuss a variety of topics with the aim of developing good communication skills. Attention also given to developing writing ability. A systematic review of Portuguese grammar is included. Prerequisite: POBS 0105, or POBS 0110, or placement. Conducted in Portuguese. Completion of POBS 0400 is the minimum requirement for participation in the Brown-in-Brazil Program. Offered every semester.

Focuses on the representation of immigrants, migrants and other "border crossers" in contemporary literature from Brazil and other countries. How do people respond to the loss of home and the shift to a new culture? Is "going home" possible? How do individuals deal with their dual or triple identities? Piñon, Lispector, Scliar, Rushdie, Salih, Cristina Garcia, V. S. Naipaul and others. Conducted in English. Enrollment limited to 19 first year students.

How do we imagine human and more than human actors and landscapes marked/marred by coloniality, predatory extractivism, slavery and epistemicide, and their contemporary fallouts? Is it possible to think of alternate futures in light of human-generated environmental crisis? This course focuses on Brazilian literary and cultural production that confronts what Aníbal Quijano termed the “colonial matrix of power” as well as how this framework has sparked multiple forms of resistances that have contributed to a creative de-colonialization of knowledge and the imaginations of other possible futures that confront colonial power in its various iterations. In particular, we will examine the creative relation between decoloniality and nature through works by Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian authors, visual artists, filmmakers, and other cultural agents and activists that reimagine the interactions between and possible common futures of humans and more than humans.

In this course we will examine the reverberations of anticolonial movements in Portuguese-speaking African and Asian territories, as well as in Indigenous movements in Brazil. Focusing on political, social, and cultural dimensions of emancipation, we will ask: How have African, Asian, and Indigenous writers and artists imagined emancipatory endeavors for their peoples, their countries, and their worlds? What is the role of cultural expression in world-sharing and world-building in response to centuries of colonialism and its legacies? We will broach these questions by reading a broad range of texts, watching films and documentaries, and looking at works of art that respond to manifestations of colonial power. This course also aims to build written and oral proficiency in Portuguese and develop knowledge of the diverse cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. Conducted in Portuguese.

We will learn about how cultural production from Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal imagines the environment and the human impact on the natural world. How does culture frame environmental issues such as deforestation, species, habitat loss, genetically modified crops, and environmental justice? What is the relationship between environmental depredation, social inequality, and racial discrimination? What is the place that cultural expression plays in intervening in environmental crises – either imaginatively or in other ways? How do the environmental humanities dialogue with efforts to decolonize culture? We will broach these questions by reading a broad range of texts, watching documentaries, listening to podcasts, and looking at artworks that touch on environmental issues. We will pay particular attention to the creative output of Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian authors, visual artists, filmmakers, and other cultural agents and activists. Conducted in Portuguese.

This course introduces students to an overview of the international solidarity with the struggle for independence of Portuguese colonies, including the myriad ways through which states, non-state actors and individual activists engaged with the liberation movements. Building on existing scholarship, the course will center on the role played by international solidarity in fueling anticolonial and anti-racist discourses for foreign audiences and attracting material and non-material resources for the liberation movements.

Based on works by twentieth- and twenty-first century Portuguese authors, this course proposes to explore ways in which Portuguese literature presents itself as a spatial practice that shapes a sense of belonging around certain cultural landscapes. Starting from the idea that environmental perceptions are intertwined with cultural legacies, this course aims to trace a journey through a variety of cultural landscapes that link the present to the past and open space for a critical reflection that brings together local solidarities and transformative worldviews. Readings include authors from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, such as Camilo Castelo Branco, Antero de Quental, Raul Brandão, Miguel Torga, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Eduardo Lourenço, José Mattoso, Maria Filomena Mónica, Miguel Esteves Cardoso, Álvaro Domingues, Alexandra Lucas Coelho, Hugo Gonçalves, and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. We will also look at music, cinema, and visual arts.