The program is designed to enable students at all levels of Portuguese to further develop skills in conversational and written Portuguese. Both the academic year and semester programs offer a six-week intensive language course. The semester program consists of the six-week intensive language course, a course on Brazilian history and culture, and four months of classes at the University. Students who do not achieve a certain level of Portuguese comprehension by the end of the intensive language course are required to take a semester of the Portuguese language course.
All courses are in Portuguese.
CIEE has been administering study abroad programs on behalf of consortium colleges and universities for almost thirty years. For the remaining months of the program, students usually share apartments with Brazilian students. Students will be responsible for finding their own living arrangements after the six-week session. The program includes field trips and excursions to places of interest in Brazil. The application deadline for the fall semester is February 15, and the deadline for the spring semester is September 15.