BA Spanish and Portuguese

As a single department with two majors---one in Spanish, the other in Portuguese and Brazilian studies---our commitment to intercultural studies reaches beyond traditional fields of national literatures, genres and languages to embrace cultural studies, environmental studies, gender and sexuality studies, the arts and more. The courses encourage students to reconsider traditional notions of identity, nation, geography and culture from integrative and transcultural perspectives. The curriculum reflects the fact that Spanish and Portuguese are increasingly recognized as domestic U.S. languages. The aim to integrate the heterogeneous languages and cultures The research and teach, from their inceptions on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Americas, to current linguistic and cultural manifestations in Europe, Africa and the Americas including the United States, the Caribbean, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.