Undergraduate Portuguese First Major Requirements

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First Major:

First Major: 30 hours in Portuguese courses numbered 200 and above.

Required courses - 24 hours:
  • 275 Intensive Beginning Portuguese 6 credit hours
  • 276 Intensive Intermediate Portuguese 6 credit hours
  • 311 Culture and Composition
  • 312 Culture and Composition
  • 415 Popular Brazilian Music I
  • 416 Brazilian Cinema

  • Plus 6 hours must be taken from 2 of the following courses:
  • 335 Brazilian Popular Culture
  • 417 Popular Brazilian Music II
  • 421 Brazilian Theater
  • 457 Brazilian Literature Survey I
  • 458 Brazilian Literature Survey II

Work in another foreign language at the 202 / 276 level (or equivalent) must also be completed. Spanish is an excellent second language for students in Portuguese because of the similarity of the two languages, the geographical proximity, and the job opportunities available to speakers of both languages.