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PRC X20E PRC 320E  Topics in Brazilian Studies  3 Hours

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Focus on issues in Brazilian society and Portuguese society and culture. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.  
Academic Level: Upper Division  
Topic 1: Samba to Hip Hop: Brazilian Popular Music. Examines the role of popular music in relationships of power with subordination and the impact of music as a form of cultural expression. Same as: LAS 328.1

Topic 2: 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. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 2), 370P (Topic 6), Portuguese Civilization 320E (Topic 2), Portuguese 375 (Topic 7). Same as: LAS 328.2

Topic 3: Afro-Luso-Brazilian Worlds. Examine the myths and realities in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian worlds and the connections and contrasts between them. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 345D, 372G (Topic 8), 374E (Topic: Afro-Luso-Brazilian Worlds), Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 3), Portuguese Civilization 320E (Topic 3). Three lecture hours a week for one semester. Same as: AFR 345D, LAS 328.3 Additional prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
  

PRC X20E.1 PRC 320E.1  Samba to Hip Hop: Brazilian Popular Music  3 Hours

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examines the role of popular music in relationships of power with subordination and the impact of music as a form of cultural expression.
Same as: LAS 328.1  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

PRC X20E.2 PRC 320E.2  Global Brazil: Immigration and Diaspora in Brazilian Culture  3 Hours

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
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. Only one of the following may be counted: Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 2), 370P (Topic 6), Portuguese Civilization 320E (Topic 2), Portuguese 375 (Topic 7).
Same as: LAS 328.2  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division  

PRC X20E.3 PRC 320E.3  Afro-Luso-Brazilian Worlds  3 Hours

3 Lecture Hours  0 Lab Hours  
Examine the myths and realities in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian worlds and the connections and contrasts between them. Only one of the following may be counted: African and African Diaspora Studies 345D, 372G (Topic 8), 374E (Topic: Afro-Luso-Brazilian Worlds), Latin American Studies 328 (Topic 3), Portuguese Civilization 320E (Topic 3). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Same as: AFR 345D, LAS 328.3  
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.  
Grading: Student Option  
Repeatable for credit: No  
Academic Level: Upper Division