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Brown in Brazil - Coursework

The OIP Resource Library has course catalogs for students to consult. For the application, students should pick more courses than they think they will take in order to give the selection committee an idea of the subject areas which interest you.

If you are not at Brown, you may use the listing of courses below to fill out the Course Choice Form in your application.

The Brown in Brazil coordinator on site will help you after you arrive to finalize your choices. You may also want to check out the homepage of Pontificía Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janiero

 

Courses Brown in Brazil Students Have Taken in the Past

Administration

  • Financial Administration
  • Financial Institutions in Brazil
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Budgets for Business
  • Capital Market & Investments
  • Consumer Behavior
  • Marketing Management

Cultural Studies/Art History

  • Brazilian Culture
  • History of the Press in Brazil
  • History of Brazilian Cinema
  • History of Advertising in Brazil
  • Public films and Commercials
  • Documentary Cinema
  • History of Modern Art

Economics

  • Contemportary Brazilian Ecoomy
  • General Economic History II

Education

  • History of Brazilian Education II

Geography

  • Physical Geography--Geomorphology
  • Human Geography--Agrarian Space and Production of Work
  • Human Geography--Urban Space
  • Human & Economic Geography
  • Spatial Formation of Latin America
  • Biogeography
  • Regional Geography--Modern World I

History/Political Science

  • Brazilian History II
  • Brazilian History IV
  • History of the Americas IV
  • History of the Americas VI
  • Social and Political Organizations of Brazil
  • Political Institutions of Brazil
  • Political, Economic and Social History of Brazil
  • Constitutional Law I
  • Brazil’s Foreign Policy

Literature

  • Brazilian Literature--Poetry Masters
  • Brazilian Literature Masterworks--Prose Masters
  • Discourse Semantics
  • Individual Reserch Project
  • American Literature
  • Communication & Brazilian Literature

Psychology

  • Psychological Systems IV (Psychoanalysis)

Religious Studies

  • Pastoral: Afro-Brazilian Cults
  • History of the Church in Latin America

Social Anthropology

  • Ideologies in Latin America
  • Sociology of Everyday Life
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Brazilian Anthropology I

Translation

  • Intoduction to Translation
  • Portuguese for Translators
Updated: October 1, 2008