Degree Requirements (30 credit hours)
Common Core Courses (9 credit hours)
- FOL 3881 Languages and Technology OR LIN 3010 General Linguistics OR SPN 3733 Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- Language-Area-Focused Culture Course
- Language-Area-Focused Language Structure Course
Major Required Courses (21 credit hours)
Lower Division Prerequisite: Must demonstrate proficiency by testing or completion of intermediate level Portuguese.
Upper Division Requirements: A minimum of 6 credit hours in the target language must be at the 4000 level.
Major Core Courses (9 credits)
- POR 3400 Advanced Oral Communication
- POR 3420 Review Grammar/Writing I
- PRT 3800 Portuguese Translation I
Breadth Courses/Lusophone Cultural Courses (9 credits)
Select three courses out of the following list:
- POW 4390 Brazilian Cinema
- POW 4391 Brazilian Cinema and Human Rights
- POW 4930 Special Topics
- POR 3440 Portuguese for Business
- POR 3500 Luso-Brazilian Culture - GL
- POR 3930 Special Topics in Language Linguistics
- POR 3421 Review Grammar Writing II
- POW 3284 Brazilian Short Story
- POW 4701 Master works of Brazilian Literature
- POR 4480 Twentieth Century Brazilian Novel
- PRT 3401 Portuguese Literature in Translation
Major Electives (3 credits)
- Any POW, PRT, or POR course at the 3000 or 4000 level
- Course relevant to the field of Lusophone studies, offered outside the Department, with permission of the Director of the Portuguese program.
A minimum of 6 credit hours in the target language must be at the 4000 level
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COURSE OF STUDY
Junior Year Fall (15 credits):
- (1st) Common Core course
- POR 3400 Advanced Oral Communication
- POR 3420 Review Grammar/Writing I
- 2 General elective courses
Junior Year Spring (15 credits):
- (2nd) Common Core course
- POR 3421 Review Grammar/Writing II
- POW 3284 Brazilian Short Stories
- (1st) Breadth Course Requirement
- General Elective
Junior Year Summer (6 credits):
- (2nd) Breadth Course Requirement
- General upper-division elective (3000-4000 level)
Senior Year Fall (12 credits):
- (3rd) Common Core course
- (3rd) Breadth Course Requirement
- Advanced Literature Course (POR 4480 or POW 4701)
- General upper-division elective (3000-4000 level)
Senior Year Spring (12 credits):
- Major Elective course
- 2 general upper-division electives (3000-4000 level)
- General elective
To receive more information, please contact the following faculty: Eugenia Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Portuguese: eufernan@fiu.edu