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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.

The objectives of this course are:

- Conduct a theoretical and practical study of contemporary stage languages, based on the concepts of theatricality and performativity and the dialogue with other artistic languages.
- Expand the ability to perceive the expressive and descriptive elements that make up the stage, through practical experimentation with the relationship between these elements in the body and space.
- Discuss the different theoretical views of the stage, from the modern advent of staging to the break with the canons of Eurocentric Western art, undertaken through decolonial theatrical experiences.
- Analyze the creative processes, stage creation methods, and aesthetic proposals of artists from the contemporary Brazilian stage, critically reflecting on different conceptions of theatrical and performative scenes.
- Encourage the creation of scenes that point to new possibilities for artistic dialogue with the contemporary world.
- Develop practical stage work based on the materiality of the elements that make up the space-time of the stage and their relationships. 

This course uses case studies, theoretical readings, discussions, and seminars. Students participate in stage writing work based on the reinterprettation of textual materials selected from various sources and with a common theme. 

The Directing Actors course explores the well-known research fields of performance, gender, and star studies, in order to understand how a relationship between people, mediated by a camera, in different positions, is realized, adopting equally distinct procedures to achieve previously prepared results. Within this perspective, the aim is not to adopt a single method, sufficiently capable of encompassing countless possibilities, but to recognize the breadth of paths and tools available to direct people with significant, none, or insufficient professional experience.

The objective of this course is to carry out an updated reading of certain classic texts of the socialist tradition in order to discuss the relationship between the Political and the Economic, and from there, between a Politics overdetermined by class and a postmodern Politics centered on identity and subjective elements. This course explores Rousseau, the thought of the utopian socialists and their Marxist critique, the evolution of Marx and Engels' political thought from 1848, the Paris Commune, Evolutionism and reformism in the Marxism of the Second International, the Luxembourgist critique, Lenin and the emergence of Bolshevism, Gramsci, and the radicalization of Leninism by Trotsky. This course also includes contemporary assessments of these topics.

This course covers concepts and approaches to environmental ethics, including environmental ethics in the philosophical rationalities of Western culture, environmental ethics in traditional cultures, environmental ethics and biodiversity, environmental ethics and spirituality, environmental ethics and the major socio-environmental challenges of the national and international community, ethics and environmental education, and experiences in the construction of ethical-environmental values ​​in the processes of training multiplier agents in local communities.