Capstone Seminar

Catalog description

The Capstone Seminar offers outstanding Portuguese Majors the opportunity to conduct research alongside M.A. and Ph.D. students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. The course aims to improve the students' critical thinking and ability to analyze and contextualize primary and secondary sources within Brazilian and Portuguese Literature. Students learn to identify and locate reliable sources, compile and present bibliographical data in a consistent format, and improve their ability to write scholarly prose in clear, idiomatic Portuguese.