Portuguese Major and Minor

Georgetown has accorded great importance to the language, culture, and politics of the Lusophone-speaking World for more than eighty years. We have been one of the few programs in the US to boast three tenure-line professors in Portuguese. Professors Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos (Brazilian Literature and Cultural Studies), Michael Ferreira (Portuguese Linguistics), and Patricia Vieira (Luso-African Literature and Cultural Studies) offer a variety of graduate as well as undergraduate courses for the Portuguese major and minor in both Iberian and Latin American works of literature, cultural studies, and linguistics.

Over the past two decades, our efforts deepened through our collaboration with the Instituto Camões which now sponsors a Portuguese lecturer, Dr. Glória Alhinho, an integral part of the Portuguese faculty. The Portuguese Program has organized several events in conjunction with the embassies of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde.

The Portuguese program has also greatly benefited from the Luso-American Development Foundation through cooperation with the projects sponsored by FLAD in the School of Foreign Service, especially through the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University.

To achieve a Portuguese Major, a student must take a minimum of 10 courses in the Department. A student who places lower than Advanced Spanish will require additional language study.

To achieve a Portuguese Minor, a student must take a minimum of 6 courses in the Department. A student who places lower than Advanced Spanish will require additional language study.

Find the most current Portuguese major and minor requirements from the Undergraduate Bulletin.