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This course examines musical phenomena from an anthropological perspective. From this perspective, music is approached as a social practice and symbolic production, as a performance that produces meanings and agency for musicians and listeners. Present in all societies, music tends to be a collective and ritualized activity through which its practitioners - including listeners - reaffirm shared values ​​and a sense of belonging to local, national, and transnational communities or social groups. At the end of the course, students are expected to 1: improve their ability to deal with the experience of musical otherness and, 2: understand the implications of the cultural, social, and political context in defining the different concepts of music and meanings that are collectively attributed to it.

This course addresses the theme of the ecological crisis and presents the discussion surrounding the Anthropocene. It questions the conceptual separation between the cultural order and the natural order and reflects on the meanings that the categories of nature and the environment acquire in different currents of anthropological thought. It presents ecological movements and philosophical and anthropological aspects surrounding the problem of the global ecological crisis. This course includes discussion on the environmental issue in anthropological thought; humanity and animality; global environmental crisis: intrusion of Gaia and the Anthropocene; boundaries between nature and culture; multispecies studies; and decolonial ecology.

This course covers the formation of functional organizations in the 19th Century, including the League of Nations, the United Nations System, and non-governmental organizations. The course investigates the impact of these actors on the international political agenda and the institutions of the international system. The main theoretical perspectives for the analysis of international organizations include: functionalism, federalism, idealism, and constructivism.

This course offers an initiation to the study of personal adornment in different historical and cultural contexts. It covers the main styles of art in which personal adornment stood out and developed the most.

This course on motivation and emotion covers the following topics: homeostatic control; Clark Hull's Drive Theory; Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; self-determination theory; self-efficacy; emotion, feeling, and mood; James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and Schachter-Singer theories; somatic marker; basic and complex emotions; psychopathological changes in motivation and emotion; and laboratories and demonstrations of motivation and emotion processes.

This course examines the urban fact in the state of Rio de Janeiro as a category for analyzing the organization of Rio de Janeiro's space. It discusses the city of Rio de Janeiro and its metropolization, the organization of the internal space of the city of Rio de Janeiro, the rural and the urban, the countryside and the metropolis: singularities in Rio de Janeiro. The course also highlights the structure of political, economic, cultural, and social powers in Rio de Janeiro today. It considers planning and management of the state's productive spaces; the dynamism of Rio de Janeiro: heyday, decline, and emergence; and environmental issues in Rio de Janeiro.

This course covers the evolution of environmental legislation; the concept of environmental crisis and sustainability; circular economy; socio-environmental impacts resulting from climate change; solid waste; and energy sources.

This course examines cinematographic theory. It covers the antecedents of Cinema Theory and the basic notions of related theoretical backgrounds. Students carry out critical reviews of films in text and video, critical film essays and experimental films based on the theoretical concepts covered in the course.

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 course fosters critical thinking by discussing key philosophical questions and encouraging reflection upon the connections between the ontological, epistemological, and ethical aspects of those questions. The course follows a thematic approach, going back and forward in the history of thought. Different thinkers, such as Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, Kant, and Hadot, guide our discussions.