Portuguese

This course explores major themes in theories of meaning, including the relationships between form and meaning, meaning and truth, and meaning and praxis. Core questions in the field—such as universality, figurativeness, immanence, and compositionality—are examined through presentation and discussion. Students practice using metalanguage for analyzing signification across different levels of language.

This business course covers entrepreneurial thinking, the entrepreneurial process, theoretical models related to entrepreneurial mindset, business modeling, principles of Agile Modeling, the phenomenon of leadership, challenges of entrepreneurial leaders, and schools of leadership.

This course covers solutions to Maxwell’s equations and the wave equation, including plane waves, reflection, and refraction. Topics also include the Poynting vector, radiation–matter interactions, and models of conductivity and refractive index. The course further examines radiation from an oscillating dipole and from point charges.

This course covers the history of colonial Brazil to the history of Portuguese colonization in America using historiographical trends and perspectives. Topics include: the Portuguese maritime empire and colonizing experiences, from the coast to the interior and the construction of colonial regions; the colonial city, and power structures and sociocultural dynamics; colonial slave society: ethnic-racial relations; differences and inequalities; pluralities and antagonisms; Portuguese America and the South Atlantic since the Restoration; the construction of Rio de Janeiro as the capital and its articulation with colonial regions; the formation of colonial identities, and history and culture of Africans and Indigenous peoples in the colonial world.

This course explores images drawn from the mythical and literary traditions of Ancient Greece and examines their impact on modern and contemporary literary works. Emphasis is placed on symbolic and psychological interpretations, highlighting how classical imagery continues to shape literary expression and cultural imagination.

This course covers pre-relativistic physics, including Galilean transformations, the concept of the ether, and the Michelson-Morley experiment. It introduces the Principle of Relativity, Lorentz transformations, and their consequences. Topics include four-vectors, tensors, formal Lorentz transformations, particle dynamics and applications, relativistic electrodynamics, and the energy-momentum tensor.

This is a special topics course in the field of law. It provides practical and theoretical knowledge through the exploration of a variety of legal topics and issues.

This linguistics course covers the following topics: form and meaning; meaning and truth; and meaning and praxis. The course covers major themes and questions in the field of theories of meaning: universality, figurativeness, immanence, and compositionality. The course uses presentation, discussion, and practice of metalanguage relevant to accounting for meaning on various levels of language.

This course is a beginner level course taught in a bilingual environment of Spanish and Portuguese. The course covers basic vocabulary and grammar with the goal of building the capacity to talk about the learner´s daily activities and physical and psychological characteristics, while asking simple questions and conducting small conversations. The course also presents the general geography and cultural-historical information of Portuguese-speaking countries (Brasil, Portugal, Angola, etc.).

Two (week-long) sessions of intermediate Portuguese language instruction bookend the summer seminars. Instruction emphasizes the development of intermediate Portuguese language structures, as well as oral and written practice.