Topic 1: Brazil: An Introduction. Additional prerequisite: Six semester hours of upper-division coursework in Portuguese.

Topic 2: Introduction to Literatures and Cultures. Overview of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures, including the arts and popular expressions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Among the regions studied are Brazil, Portugal, and related areas in Africa. Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 2) and Portuguese 328C may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: POR 328C Additional prerequisite: Portuguese 311C and 314C, 611D, 311J and 314J, or 611S (or 312L or 516).

Topic 3: Contemporary Brazilian Film. Explores recent filmmaking in Brazil as an art form and as a method of articulating important aspects and concerns of contemporary Brazilian society. Topics include cinema and development, modernization, national and regional identity, race, social exclusion, violence, and neoliberalism. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 3), Portuguese 350F (Topic 1), 350K.

Topic 4: Brazilian Film and Culture. Students will be given a critical overview of Brazilian cinema, from the silent era to the present day, with an emphasis on the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-centuries. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 4), Portuguese 350F (Topic 2), Portuguese 350K.

Topic 5: Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Brazilian Culture. Introduction to the vast spectrum of working women characters, including maids, prostitutes, teachers, factory workers, doctors, street vendors, and unpaid housewives, in Brazilian literature and film, in order to examine the roles of race and gender in shaping the stereotypes surrounding women's labor in modern Brazil. Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 5) and Portuguese 375 (Topic 6) may not both be counted.

Topic 6: Global Brazil: Immigration and Diaspora in Brazilian Culture. Examination of twentieth-century literature, films, and other cultural artifacts that capture the multicultural reality of Brazilian society and challenge the image of Brazil as a unified, harmonious, racially-mixed nation. Subjects include contemporary textual and visual representations of the Brazilian diaspora in the United States and Europe. Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 6) and Portuguese 375 (Topic 7) may not both be counted. Additional prerequisite: Portuguese 327C and one of the following: 328C, 330L, or Portuguese Civilization 320E.

Topic 7: Race and Slavery in Brazil. Focus on the differing meanings and values attributed by major Brazilian writers to the national "race." Topics include images of slavery and slaves in the Brazilian abolitionist literature; fictional and self-representational literature by Afro-Brazilian authors; the debate around the "Black Aesthetic"; and finally, the representation of Afro-Brazilians in other media such as film, painting, television, and popular music (samba, hip-hop, funk). Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370P (Topic: The Color of Progress: Race and Slavery in Brazil), 370P (Topic 7), Portuguese 348 (Topic 1), 375 (Topic: The Color of Progress: Race and Slavery in Brazil).

Topic 8: Afro-Brazilian Diaspora. Examines Afro-Brazilians in the post-abolition (1888 and after) era and the strategies deployed by cultural producers and participants in social movements to overcome the barriers to the achievement of political power and self-determination.

Topic 9: Brazilian and African Dialogues. A general introduction to the colonial and post-colonial experiences of Portuguese-speaking Africa. Overview of the socio-political and economic experiences of the lusophone African countries under colonialism. Examination of the armed struggle and the combative literary outpourings that impacted morale in the fight for independence.

Topic 10: United States Latino Literatures and Cultures in Context. Examines the United States Latino literary and cultural production from a multidisciplinary perspective, through literature, film, music, and performance. Analyzes the literatures and experiences of Brazilian American writers and artists in their historical and cultural specificities. Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 10) and Portuguese 354 may not both be counted. Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: POR 354 Additional prerequisite: Portuguese 327C (or 362).

Topic 11: Sociolinguistics. Explores the interrelationship of language and society with reference to the Portuguese-speaking world. Examines how socio-economic , political, and anthropological factors like race, social class, gender, age, and identity influence linguistics forms. Latin American Studies 370P (Topic 11) and Portuguese 353 may not both be counted. Three hours a week for one semester. Same as: POR 353 Additional prerequisite: Portuguese 327C or 362, and 330L.

Topic 12: Afro-Brazilians: Literature, Culture, Political Agency. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370P (Topic: Afro-Brazilians: Literature, Culture, Political Agency), 370P (Topic 12), Portuguese 341 (Topic: Afro-Brazilians: Literature, Culture, Political Agency), 341 (Topic 1).

Topic 13: Cultural Differences Between the United States and Brazil. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 370P (Topic: Cultural Differences between USA and Brazil), 370P (Topic 13), Portuguese 341 (Topic: Cultural Differences between USA and Brazil), 341 (Topic 2).