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Examine the historic center and surrounding landscape through questions of heritage, conservation, tourism, and local economies.
Brazil destination
Paraty gives Brazil a coastal, heritage, and reflection block.
Paraty / Green Coast gives students a coastal and heritage-focused stop between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with tourism, culture, conservation, and reflection shaping the program.
What to notice
Study a smaller coastal setting between Brazil's major city stops.
Paraty / Green Coast creates a smaller historic setting for comparison with Sao Paulo's scale and Rio's academic base.
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Use the New Year's period to notice how celebration, place, hospitality, and visitor economies interact.
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Compare Paraty's scale, heritage economy, coastal setting, and public life with the business intensity of Sao Paulo and the academic base in Rio.
Student experience
Paraty gives students something specific to study.
The city matters when visits, neighborhoods, institutions, and daily routines give students new material for the course.
Green Coast
A different pace on the Green Coast
A quieter Brazil setting gives students room to notice place, culture, and group rhythm.
Brazil route
Compare the coast with city life
Students can name more about Brazil when they see both coastal and urban settings.
Heritage and economy
Paraty lets students study how culture, celebration, tourism, coast, and conservation interact.
A different rhythm
Compare a smaller coastal setting with the business intensity of Sao Paulo and the urban scale of Rio.
Program pace
Paraty changes the pace of the Brazil program with heritage, coast, reflection, and the practical timing around New Year's.
Next step
Ask how Paraty fits the program.
Request program details for courses, timing, housing, credit review, and the role this destination plays in the student experience.