Portuguese

This course covers the history of photography and modern photojournalism as well as techniques, technologies, and ethics in photojournalism. It also addresses the language of photography and the construction of narrative in photojournalism, multimedia photojournalism. It includes reporting, essays, and documentation.

This course focuses on visual representations as a path to recognition and cultural identity. Conceptual, cultural, and symbolic issues in image compositions within the context of inclusion are discussed as well as understanding and developing inclusive artistic processes and techniques for visual representation.

This course provides an introduction to the Portuguese language aimed at developing intermediate reading and communication skills. Students expand their vocabulary, practice key grammatical structures, and learn to use common connectors in Portuguese. The course emphasizes comprehension of standard Portuguese texts, including literary texts of moderate difficulty, and explores important communicative features such as common expressions and forms of address. It also encourages reflection on language through comparison with other Romance languages and promotes awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity.

This course covers financial systems, currency, interest rates such as term and risk structure, and efficient markets. It also covers financial structures and banking management, financial regulation, financial crises in developed and emerging economies, central banks, money creation, monetary policy, intertemporal inconsistency, mechanisms of monetary policy transmission, transparency, communication and expectations, and inflation targeting.

The course introduces the Portuguese language and its global cultural context. Students develop basic communicative skills through the study of pronunciation, spelling, essential vocabulary, and core grammatical structures. The course also explores the presence of Portuguese in the world, fostering awareness of linguistic diversity, cultural practices, and fundamental pragmatic norms.

This course covers the historical development of journalistic activity in Brazil across different media. It investigates the relationships between journalism, culture, and power in Brazil.

This course explores the relationship between language and cognition as well as the role of language in human cognition. Topics include: linguistic productivity; linguistic relativism and determinism; the relationship between language and conceptual systems (semantic memory, schemas, and scripts); the relationship between language and intentional systems and its interface with pragmatics.