Competence aims:

• knowledge of the history of Brazil with special consideration for change in transregional relations
• knowledge of postcolonial intellectual history
• ability to critically interpret and contextually classify paradigmatic texts from various epochs that reconstruct Brazilian “nation-building”
• mastery of basic terminology that express the Brazilian formation process

Learning content:

• key texts and terminology in Brazilian knowledge and cultural production from the 19th century to the present
• Brazilian reception and processing of European and Anglo-Saxon theoretical influences
• analysis of the various historical stages of transregional integration and development
• mastery of presentation techniques and academic texts