POBS courses
116 courses · Brown University · Fall 2026
- POBS 0105 — Accelerated Portuguese1 section
- POBS 0280 — Mapping Food, Eating Meaning, Making Community: A Welcome to the Lusophone world1 section
- POBS 0281 — Digital Dreams: Brazil Cinema on the World Stage1 section
- POBS 0400 — Writing and Speaking Portuguese1 section
- POBS 0630A — The nature of things: an object-oriented approach to Lusophone studies1 section
- POBS 0630B — Lusophone Cities in Literature, Film and Music1 section
- POBS 0630D — A Luta Continua: African, Asian, & Indigenous Responses to Coloniality in the Lusophone World1 section
- POBS 0630E — Gender and Sexuality in the Lusophone World1 section
- POBS 0630F — Women, Arts & Imagination in the Portuguese-Speaking World1 section
- POBS 0630I — Earth, Sea, City: Environmental Visions from the Lusophone World1 section
- POBS 0673A — Colonial Encounters in the Early Atlantic (HIST 0673A)1 section
- POBS 0710 — Modern Brazil Goes to the Movies1 section
- POBS 0710A — (En)Gendering the Text: Gender & Sexuality in Latin American Literature and Film (GNSS 0710A)1 section
- POBS 0720 — Racial and Gender Politics in Contemporary Brazil (AFRI 0710A)1 section
- POBS 0810 — Belonging and Displacement: Cross-Cultural Identities1 section
- POBS 0850 — Comparative Approaches to the Literatures of Brazil and the United States1 section
- POBS 0910 — On the Dawn of Modernity1 section
- POBS 0970 — Tropical Delights: Imagining Brazil in History and Culture (HIST 0537B)1 section
- POBS 0990 — Mapping Cross-Cultural Identities1 section
- POBS 1070A — On Both Sides of the Lens: Latin American Women Filmmakers (GNSS 1070)1 section
- POBS 1080 — Performing Brazil: Language, Theater, Culture1 section
- POBS 1090 — Portuguese-speaking Cultures Via Film1 section
- POBS 1210 — Afro-Brazilians and the Brazilian Polity (AFRI 1210)1 section
- POBS 1370 — US and Brazil: Tangled Relation (HIST 1370)1 section
- POBS 1500C — Brazilian Literature in Translation: Clarice Lispector-a Woman of Spirit1 section
- POBS 1500D — Brief Encounters: Modernist and Postmodernist Brazilian Short Fiction1 section
- POBS 1500E — Contemporary and Brazilian Fiction: New Paths and New Perspectives1 section
- POBS 1500G — Cultural Politics of Hybridity in Modern Brazilian Fiction1 section
- POBS 1500H — Esthers of the Diaspora: Female Jewish Voices from Latin America1 section
- POBS 1500I — Fiction and History (COLT 1810G)1 section
- POBS 1501B — Brazilian Biographies (HIST 1313)1 section
- POBS 1501D — Pathways of Brazilian Narrative1 section
- POBS 1501E — Histories of Global Health from Lusophone Africa: Biomedical Actions in Angola, Mozambique,…1 section
- POBS 1501F — The Enlightened Censor1 section
- POBS 1501G — Remembering and Forgetting the Portuguese Colonial Empire Public Memory1 section
- POBS 1501I — Luso-African Literature in a Post-Colonial Context: A Decolonial Reading of the West1 section
- POBS 1520 — Latin American Horror (GNSS 1520)1 section
- POBS 1600A — The Afro-Luso-Brazilian Triangle (AFRI 1020C)1 section
- POBS 1600B — Colonialism, Nationalism and Gender in Portuguese India1 section
- POBS 1600C — Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Education: Education and the Portuguese-Speaking World1 section
- POBS 1600H — Politics and Culture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship 1964-85 (HIST 1967L)1 section
- POBS 1600K — On the Dawn of Modernity1 section
- POBS 1600O — Displacement: Colonialism, Migration and Transnationalism in Lusophone Societies1 section
- POBS 1600P — The Last Empire: Portuguese Colonialsm and Decolonization in Comparative Perspective1 section
- POBS 1600Q — Perceptions of the Other and Ethnographical Writing in Early Modern Portugal1 section
- POBS 1600R — The Lusophone Black Atlantic: Cultures and Religions Across the Ocean1 section
- POBS 1600S — 17th Century Portuguese World1 section
- POBS 1600X — Urban Latin America (LAST 1510I)1 section
- POBS 1600Z — The Making of Modern Brazil (LAST 1510J)1 section
- POBS 1601A — The Birth of the Modern World: A Global History of Empires1 section
- POBS 1601B — Defying the Wind of Change: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961-19801 section
- POBS 1601C — From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Iberian Peninsula: Transformations and Current Challenges1 section
- POBS 1601E — Travels and Exhibitions: Writing, Collecting + Displaying the World in the 19th + 20th…1 section
- POBS 1601G — The Politics and Government of Lusophone Countries1 section
- POBS 1601H — Contemporary Migrations: Movements, Experiences and Policies of Belonging1 section
- POBS 1601I — Media + Propaganda in Contemporary History1 section
- POBS 1601K — Early Modern Global History at the John Carter Brown Library: A Research Workshop1 section
- POBS 1601M — Migrants, Political Activism and the Racialization of Labor1 section
- POBS 1601N — Politics of Indigeneity in Brazil (LACA 1503Q)1 section
- POBS 1601O — The Portuguese Estado Novo. Visual Propaganda, Public Use of Past and Self-Representation1 section
- POBS 1601P — Global Decolonization in Africa and Asia: the Portuguese Case in a Comparative Perspective1 section
- POBS 1601Q — Portuguese and Lusophone African Literature and Cinema1 section
- POBS 1601R — Beyond the Masterpiece Tradition: Mining the Archive for Alternative Histories of Portuguese…1 section
- POBS 1601S — Environment, Health and Colonial Society in Africa- 19th and 20th Centuries1 section
- POBS 1601T — Regimes of Contention in Southern Europe1 section
- POBS 1601U — International Solidarity and the Struggle for Independence of Portuguese Colonies1 section
- POBS 1601V — Salazar’s Dictatorship in Comparative Historical Perspective: From the Fascist Era to…1 section
- POBS 1601W — Challenging the Colonial Complex: Theory and Praxis in the Portuguese-speaking world1 section
- POBS 1601X — Media, Entertainment and Politics in the Lusophone World1 section
- POBS 1601Z — Art and Visual Culture from the Lusophone Black Atlantic: A Decolonial and Comparative Approach1 section
- POBS 1602A — Portugal: The Journey from "Welcoming" Policies to Anti-Immigration Mobilization1 section
- POBS 1602C — Desire in Iberian Cinema1 section
- POBS 1602D — Entangled Memories: Heritage, Sustainability, and Communities in Portugal and Lusophone Africa1 section
- POBS 1670 — History of Brazil (HIST 1310)1 section
- POBS 1671 — Brazil: From Abolition to Emerging World Power (HIST 1312)1 section
- POBS 1694 — Comparative History of Abolitionism in the Atlantic World1 section
- POBS 1740 — Artful Teaching: Intersecting the Arts with Foreign and Second Language Acquisition1 section
- POBS 1800A — "Que país é este?" Twentieth-Century Definitions of Brazil and Brazilianness1 section
- POBS 1800B — Lusofonia : National Identities and Transnational Challenges1 section
- POBS 1800C — Constructing Men, Projecting Masculinity: Questioning Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Brazil1 section
- POBS 1800E — The Brazilian Puzzle: Confronting the Post-Colonial Legacy1 section
- POBS 1800F — The Lusophone World and the Struggle for Modernity1 section
- POBS 1967L — Politics and Culture Under The Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 (HIST 1967L)1 section
- POBS 1970 — Reading and Guided Study1 section
- POBS 1990 — Research and Preparation of Honors Projects1 section
- POBS 2120B — Practicum in English as a Second Language1 section
- POBS 2120C — Cross-Cultural Practices: Children and Families1 section
- POBS 2450 — Exchange Scholar Program1 section
- POBS 2500B — Portuguese Overseas Encounters1 section
- POBS 2500E — Portuguese Cultural and National Identity1 section
- POBS 2500F — Tales of the "Sertão"1 section
- POBS 2500G — Nation and Narration1 section
- POBS 2500H — The City and the Street: Tradition, Modernity and Human Subjectivity in Brazilian Urban…1 section
- POBS 2500I — The Portuguese Essay1 section
- POBS 2500K — Senses and Sensibilities in the Nineteenth Century Portuguese Novel1 section
- POBS 2500L — Latin American Historiography (HIST 2971E)1 section
- POBS 2500N — Got Rights? Human Rights and Contemporary Brazilian Literature1 section
- POBS 2500P — Ways of Belonging in Portuguese Literature1 section
- POBS 2500S — Narrating Nations and Colonialism: Gender Representations in the African Literary Map (Past…1 section
- POBS 2600A — Medieval and Renaissance Portuguese Literature1 section
- POBS 2600B — Saramago and His Contemporaries1 section
- POBS 2600C — Foundations of Literary Theory1 section
- POBS 2600D — Brazilian Fictions of the Self1 section
- POBS 2600E — António Lobo Antunes and his contemporaries1 section
- POBS 2600G — Decolonizing Brazil: The Postcolonial Dilemma of "Not Being And Being Other"1 section
- POBS 2600I — Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Poetry1 section
- POBS 2600J — The "I" of the Beholder: The Autobiographical Mode in Modern Brazilian Fiction1 section
- POBS 2600K — Imaginários aquáticos na prosa brasileira1 section
- POBS 2600M — The Word in the Dark: Passion, Quest and Identity in the Universe of Clarice Lispector1 section
- POBS 2600N — Transgressing Gender: Female Voicing in Modern Brazilian Literature1 section
- POBS 2600O — The Sage of Suspicion: Machado de Assis and the Agencies of Narrative1 section
- POBS 2600P — Fernando Pessoa and Co1 section
- POBS 2600W — Contemporary Brazilian Women Writers in the Culture of Money: A Literature of Their Own1 section
- POBS 2970 — Preliminary Examination Preparation1 section
- POBS 2980 — Reading and Guided Study1 section
- POBS 2990 — Thesis Preparation1 section
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