Brazilian Literature and Culture through the Arts

Brazilian Literature and Culture through the Arts
Brazil - Salvador, Bahia
June 28 – July 27, 2008

Course Information

Portuguese 161 (4 units)- New Course
Luso-Brazilian Literature & Culture
New course description has not yet been listed in the UC Davis General Catalog.
GE credit: TBA
Spanish 198 (4 units)
Directed Group Study
P/NP Grading
GE credit: None

Required Texts

Textbooks

Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture. ISBN 0-8420-2492-1
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant by Manuel Antônio de Almeida. ISBN: 019511549X
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado. ISBN: 0307276643

Ordering / Bookstore Information
You can purchase your books from the UC Davis MU Bookstore or another bookseller online. If you are mail-ordering your books, make sure to order them from the bookstore by May 25, ensuring you get them before you depart. You cannot get books sent to your address abroad. Instructions on how to order books from the bookstore are located at https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/.

Course Reader
The course will use a course reader. The cost is included in the program cost. All participants will receive their course readers with their orientation materials.

Travel Guide
Summer Abroad is supplying a copy of a Lonely Planet travel guide Brazil. Participants will get their guidebooks at the May 17th orientation. Non-Davis students who are unable to attend the orientation will receive their guidebook with the orientation materials in the mail in June.

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