Brazil

This course examines the origins and development of modern architecture in Brazil. It explores the French artistic mission style and its influences, neoclassicism, eclecticism, and neocolonialism. It also looks at modern and contemporary architecture in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Belo Horizonte.

This course evaluates different types of business models and their implications for company strategy. It uses case studies to compliment and illustrate the models presented.

Variable content.

This course offers a study of graphics software. Students use computer technologies for the creation, evaluation, understanding, communication, and presentation of architecture and urbanism projects by using three-dimensional modeling programs, editing and image processing, and digital presentation.

This course offers a study of the basic concepts and tools for strategic management from a global perspective. Topics include: assessment of strategic fit considering global opportunities and challenges; shift in paradigm of multinational strategies from national differentiation to globalization; international alliances-- focus on joint ventures; cultural challenges; balanced scorecards for firms with global strategies.

Entrepreneur ethical stance. Ethics in formatting new businesses. New entrepreneurship. Rising businesses. Ethics and values. Behavioral ethics. Ethic codes. Ethics applied in organizational instruments, such as strategic planning and performance evaluation. Ethics and Consumption. Contemporary labor relations. Workplace bullying. Ethical, environmental, social and sustainable entrepreneurship. Ethical and legal responsibility in the value chain. Ethics and Marketing. Marketing mix: product, communication, price and distribution from an ethical perspective.

This course discusses the basic concepts of architecture and urbanism, as well as elemental skills in modeling and drafting necessary to architecture design. It covers the principles of scale, dimension, proportion, and the recognition of spatiality and flows of architecture design. In the second half of the course, students prepare an architectural design for a single-family house. The final presentation includes a three-dimensional scale model, along with orthogonal and analytical drawings for the design.

This course offers an introduction to solid mechanics. Topics include: structural idealization; balance, forces, and moments; trusses; tensions and deformations; mechanical properties of materials; transformation of stresses in the plane; twist; stresses and tensions in beams; cables.

This course examines the role of the state in capitalist economics. It offers an historical analysis of the participation of the public sector in the Brazilian economy. Topics include: market failures; processes of collective choice; sectoral public policies; tax policy; tax incidence; economic regulation; investments in infrastructure.