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This course provides a study of the meanings and values of literature and culture through history and the connections of literature with other areas of cultural production including the visual arts, music, film and photography. It examines the links between literature, culture and nationality, in particular the different interpretations of the "Brazilian culture," implications of its appropriation, and the Brazilian social imagination. Other topics include: cultural modernity; literature, culture and the challenge of difference; modernist reversal of the cultural construction of "Brazilian-ness"; contemporary views on culture.

This course offers a study of the history of Brazilian cinema from its origins to the contemporary era. It explores the primary movements within this art form.

This course explores the contributions of international political sociology on the renewal of critical research agenda in international relations. It discusses the opportunity international political sociology provides to deal with issues previously marginalized by international studies such as: the creation of international borders; social surveillance apparatus; transnational crime; flexible citizenship; international governance technologies; infrastructures and logistics.

This course examines the origins and development of modern architecture in Brazil. It explores the French artistic mission style and its influences, neoclassicism, eclecticism, and neocolonialism. It also looks at modern and contemporary architecture in cities such as Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife, and Belo Horizonte.

This course offers a study of graphics software. Students use computer technologies for the creation, evaluation, understanding, communication, and presentation of architecture and urbanism projects by using three-dimensional modeling programs, editing and image processing, and digital presentation.

This course offers an introduction to solid mechanics. Topics include: structural idealization; balance, forces, and moments; trusses; tensions and deformations; mechanical properties of materials; transformation of stresses in the plane; twist; stresses and tensions in beams; cables.

This course examines the role of the state in capitalist economics. It offers an historical analysis of the participation of the public sector in the Brazilian economy. Topics include: market failures; processes of collective choice; sectoral public policies; tax policy; tax incidence; economic regulation; investments in infrastructure.

This course analyzes the child as an historical, social, and cultural subject. It discusses children's literature, narrative, creative imagination, and the production of culture. This course explores children's literature and pedagogical practice, teachers and children's literature, cultural industry and children's literature, and the publishing marketing and the school.

This course offers a study of population development and growth. Topics include: demographic theories and policies; new technologies, new forms of work, and new forms of unemployment; territorial redistribution of the population; international migration of labor and the process of globalization and fragmentation.