From Rio’s favelas to Lisbon’s startup corridors and Maputo’s literary salons, the Portuguese-speaking world spans four continents. Duke’s BS in Brazilian and Global Portuguese Studies offers immersive language instruction—often reaching CEFR C1 by junior year—paired with coursework on Afro-Brazilian religions, Amazonian biodiversity politics, and Lusophone post-colonial cinema. Students collaborate with the Duke Policy Lab to model deforestation-mitigation incentives, and service-learning trips with NGOs in São Paulo develop social-innovation skills. The program’s hallmark is a semester at Duke’s partnership hub in Bahia, integrating ethnographic fieldwork with coastal ecosystem research.
Geo-spatial analysis of illegal logging hotspots in Pará
Translation and subtitle project for Mozambican short films
Mobile app teaching Portuguese slang through music lyrics
Ethnography of Afro-Brazilian capoeira schools in Durham
Policy proposal for sustainable tourism in the Azores
Podcast interviewing Angolan tech entrepreneurs
Comparative study of COVID-19 disinformation on Lusophone social media
Digital archive of Portuguese maritime exploration maps
Machine-learning sentiment analysis of Brazilian election tweets
Biodiversity comic series in Portuguese for Amazonian youth
Interactive timeline of Lusophone diaspora migrations
Blockchain traceability platform for fair-trade Brazilian coffee
VR experience of Carnival’s samba-enredo storytelling
Portuguese language MOOC on climate-smart agriculture
Public-health campaign translating vaccine guides into Cape Verdean Creole
Documentary on gender in sertanejo university music scenes
Film festival curatorial plan featuring Lusophone queer cinema
Open-access database of Portuguese literary prizes
Citizen-science mangrove monitoring app in Portuguese
Children’s book series translating indigenous Tupi myths
Master Portuguese and engage critically with Lusophone cultures and policies worldwide.
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