Language and Culture Summer Program
Summer - 2009
Description
The Iowa Summer Study Abroad Program in Brazil provides students with and opportunity to study Portuguese language and explore the values, ideologies and symbolic content of an area of Brazil in which practices of African origin have enriched the culture. The program takes place in city of Salvador in the state of Bahia, an area that strongly displays African influence in past and present Brazil.
Salvador
The African legacy in Brazil thrived in colonial times, and nowadays it remains a driving force, emerging in cultural, artistic and religious elements that can be seen throughout the country,and especially in this city.
St.Francis Church
This six-week summer program provides undergraduate and graduate students with the opportunity to learn the language, culture and history of Brazil. It offers courses comprising beginning, intermediate, and advanced Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. This program is an intensive immersion experience that allows students to develop fluency in the Portuguese language while experiencing the rich and varied historical and cultural landscape of Bahia.
The program this year will be directed by Professor Jason Rothman.
Professor Rothman studies theoretical language acquisition and is one of the only researchers in North America who has an active research program examining the adult acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a second language. He can be reached at jason-rothman@uiowa.edu
For more information about Prof. Rothman:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~spanport/personal/Rothman/RothmanHm.htm.
Program Dates
Tentative arrival and departure dates for the Summer 2009 program are:
June 29 - August 10, 2009.
Please do not book flights until your receive instructions for doing so from program staff.