USC Schedule of Classes

Encourages rapid acquisition through intensive exposure to Portuguese while following a proficiency-oriented approach. Recommended for students with a background in Spanish or another Romance language.

Comparative study of Brazil in the context of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) world, especially Portugal's former colonies in Africa. Materials drawn from literature, visual culture, music and cultural theory.

An introduction to Brazilian literature and culture exploring how Brazil has been understood and represented through spatial categories that have become, as it were, common places in Brazilian literary studies: the rural Brazil of the backlands, the tropical Brazil of the Amazon, the urban and cosmopolitan Brazil of the large cities, and how they relate to questions of identity and difference in the context of Brazilian society.