Practice in oral and written Portuguese at the advanced level. Serves as a transition between language study and cultural studies through the examination of Lusophone cultural and artistic production. Designed to enhance communicative competence, this course will include a review of advanced grammatical structures within cultural contexts of the Portuguese-speaking world. Oral interactions and critical writing will be stressed.

This course is conducted in English and aims to introduce students to the cultures of the Portuguese-Speaking world through selected films, music and readings. By examining how contemporary film makers and writers present key aspects of African, Brazilian, and Portuguese societies, the following topics will be studied: colonialism; wars of independence in Africa; Brazil’s military dictatorship; Portugal´s New State dictatorship; representations of trauma and memory. Readings are in English and Films have subtitles.