<p>Aloha, </p>
<p>I am a rising senior in high school with ambitions of studying Portuguese as an undergrad. Through my searches, one of the few schools I found that actually offers a Portuguese/Brazilian studies program is Tulane.</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone could tell me from personal experience or from word of mouth how this program is (any information you have thats not listed on Tulane's website... like difficulty, teachers etc.)</p>
<p>Also, if you are aware of any other schools that offer portuguese please let me know.</p>
<p>mucho thanks</p>
<p>I will leave it to current students to give you the latest updates, but I can tell you that Tulane has a long history with Latin America, including Brazil. When I was an undergrad there (mumble mumble) years ago, not only was the Latin American Studies department strongly tied to that country as well as the rest of the region, but there were faculty in almost every department including economics, history, anthropology, music and sociology that had specific interests in Brazil. While I am sure most of those faculty are gone now, these things are often perpetuating, especially given Tulane’s top tier status for Latin American Studies.</p>
<p>As FallenChemist said, Tulane has an excellent Latin American Studies program. A girl that used to go to my high school is majoring in Latin American Studies at Tulane. She absolutely loves it. She is currently c/o 2013.</p>
<p>I meant to mention, but got distracted while I was typing that response and then forgot, that people interested in this kind of thing should look up the history of Sam Zemurray and most especially his links to Tulane. He was a fruit baron with major interests in Latin America and is credited with creating the term “banana republic” (for those of you who think it is only a clothing chain, shame on you, lol). President Cowen’s current residence was Zemurray’s mansion.</p>