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This course offers a study of neurology. The course discusses topics including general knowledges of anatomy and biochemistry of the central nervous system including neurotransmitters; general knowledges of neuroimaging; and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and prognosis, possibility of pharmacological and surgical treatment, and neuropsychological correlates of the following diseases: Alzheimer dementia, Parkinson disease, tauopathies; Huntington disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, Epilepsy, cerebrovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis, and palliative care and end of life. The course requires students to have knowledge of the anatomy of the central nervous system and main vascular districts, and general knowledge of magnetic resonance imaging, PET, and SPECT, as prerequisites for the course.

This course discusses transformations in the governance of global trade. It examines tensions between multilateralism and bilateralism in global trade, reconfiguration of the WTO, and the role and protagonism of the EU and other key actors.

This course covers the fundamentals of generative computer graphics: homogeneous coordinates, rendering pipeline, and global illumination. Topics include input and output devices, transformations, raster algorithms, visibility, color, local illumination, global illumination, and textures.

This course offers a study of marriage and sexuality in the classical sources of rabbinic Judaism. It focuses on the development of these concepts in the Judaism of antiquity and compare them to similar ideas of sexuality in the surrounding Greco-Roman and Christian cultures.

This course examines modern and contemporary US wring in a variety of genres, interrogating the changing ideas of national literature and exploring the emergence of a variety of voices laying claim to being American. Texts are drawn from the main genres of prose fiction and nonfiction, drama, and poetry. The course starting with the Harlem Renaissance is both a historical marker and a cultural statement, taking Langston Hughes’s  ‘I, too, sing America’ as one of its core themes.

This course examines what is artificial intelligence (AI); current uses of AI in society; frameworks for ethical AI, including fairness, accountability and safety; technical responses, including transparency and explainability in AI; legal regimes, including privacy, consumer law, discrimination and human rights law; public and private accountability; uses of AI in the workplace; AI home assistants; autonomous vehicles; AI and robots in medicine; AI in media, including social media platforms; AI in decision-making by governments, courts, police and other public institutions; and military uses of AI.

This course provides an introduction to models of international trade and their predictions of trade patterns, with some consideration of empirical studies and policy issues. The course introduces students to classical and new theories of international trade; uses examples and empirical evidence to introduce students to the methods most commonly used in the economic analysis of international trade; and enables students to engage with trade theory in a critical manner, understanding the arguments used both in favor and against trade liberalization. 

This course presents the discussion of Brazilian culture in its most relevant aspects to students who come from other cultures. Rethink Brazil through the reading of possible stereotypes present in images internationally disseminated, taking into consideration the process of construction of the Brazilian Portuguese Language and the verbal, non-verbal, and social interactional patterns currently in use. This course provides effective contact with different cultural aspects such as ethnic diversity, art, religion, folklore, culinary, and language through theoretical readings, debates, and eventual lectures about specific cultural topics.