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  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores Brazilian popular music's role as an important forum for political expression and resistance. It traces its evolution from its origins in Samba in the early twentieth century through MPB and utilizes it as a lens for examining history, culture, and national identity during the twenty-one years of the military regime (1964'85). Conducted in Portuguese.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Involves students in thoughtfully organized service through community-engaged leaning. Students have the opportunity to use and expand their language skills and cross-cultural understanding while doing community-engaged learning projects on campus and in the local community. Academically the course seeks to provide a better understanding of challenges and problems faced by immigrants and their communities. This course entails lectures and readings, cross-cultural communications through simulation exercises, and community service in the Salt Lake region.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A course devoted to learning basic terminology and vocabulary related to commerce in the Portuguese-speaking world. Prerequisites: PTGSE 2020 or equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    A course devoted to learning Portuguese terminology and vocabulary related to healthcare. It offers an overview of patient-provider communication and intercultural competence applied to interactions with Portuguese speakers in healthcare contexts. Language Level Requirement: *This course requires an intermediate-high level of Portuguese. You should feel confident that you can take this course if you: 1. have previously taken PTGSE 3060, 2. are a native or heritage Portuguese-speaking healthcare practitioner, or 3. have lived in a Lusophone country for a significant amount of time and provide healthcare to Portuguese-speaking populations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to Brazilian history and culture. It will examine such topics as the legacies of indigenous people and empire, authoritarianism and democratization, migration and urbanization, racial and ethnic identity, women's roles, religion, the role of the complexity, variety, and unique cultural and historical experiences that characterize Brazil. Course taught in Portuguese. Prerequisite: PTGSE 3040 or 3060.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the concepts of empire, lusofonia, and the lusotropicalist myth by way of the literature and other cultural products of Portugal, Brazil, and the Portuguese-speaking diaspora ' including Mozambique, Angola, Macao, and others. Conducted in Portuguese. Prerequisites: PTGSE 3060 OR Equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Readings in Brazilian Literature from the colonial period to the present, covering varied genres in their respective cultural, historical, and esthetic contexts. Prerequisites: PTGSE 3060 OR Equivalent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the concepts of the Fantastic and Science Fiction by way of the greatest practitioners of speculative fiction and cinema in Brazil. Topics include the supernatural, technology, dystopia, apocalypse, space travel, aliens, time travel, artificial intelligence, androids, and cyborgs as well as their application to Brazilian history and culture. Conducted in Portuguese.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Exploration of the Luso-Brazilian world through films paired with reviews, critical essays, and literature - emphasizing the process of the Luso-Brazilian artist in dialogue with the ever-changing concepts of national and Lusophone identity. Conducted in English.
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    Readings selected by student and designated professor to broaden student's background in area where no course is taught.