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This course offers an introduction to the main techniques and methods of working in digital drawing. Topics include: program interface; geometric objects; rational organization of geometry; basic geometric transformations; translating, rotating, scaling, and reflection; use of precision tools; cylindrical projections; orthogonal views; dihedral system; axonometric representation; isometry, dimetry, and trimetry; representation of simple objects in isometry; tangents; four center method; line types and their application; scale; printing boards.

This course discusses the use of graphic representations and the development of language and personal style in fashion illustration. It explores experimentation of monotype techniques, collage, assembly, rubbing, and watercolor. This course also offers a study of textures in fashion illustration.

This course provides a study of Brazilian culture through an audiovisual perspective. Discussions in class are illustrated by documentaries and feature films that highlight cultural aspects not typically shown in the main media. Topics covered include: popular culture and cultural diversity across regions of the country; Brazilian contemporary culture; culture and communications media; mass media in present-day Brazil. Note: Although the course titles are similar, course content is distinct from COM 9033

This course examines monetary systems and the instruments of money supply, term structure of interest rate, non-bank intermediaries and the demand for money in modern systems, and instruments and strategies of monetary policy. A course in Macroeconomic Theory is the recommended prerequisite.

This course offers a study of the political history of Rio de Janeiro and the challenges the city has faced. Topics include: the exercise of power in Rio and the impact on development; urban reforms of the 20th century and consequences for physical and symbolic mobility of the city; Rio as a reference and reflection of the country; transfer of the capital to Brasilia and the political, economic, and cultural impact; merger of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro; electoral and partisan competition in the city; other actors in the dispute for power-- urban violence, militias, and religion; collective and social movements.

This course offers a study of the systems and principles of nature and their application in graphic design. It provides an analysis of functional, structural, and formal solutions.

This course explores the geomorphological processes developed in coastal environments. Topics include: main coastal features-- coastal plains, escarpments or cliffs, coastal strands, tombolos, pontoons; sedimentary dynamics of beaches, wind transport, and the formation of dunes; sediment cover and transportation on the internal continental shelf; evolutionary reconstitution of the great coastal plains; coastal erosion monitoring; dynamics of forcing sediment work-- winds, waves, tide, and estuaries; forces generating kinetic energy of the sediments and the improvement of the coastal features of the marine or lake bottom; subsidies for shoreline or coastal management today and in the most recent geological periods.

This course integrates the political and social history of Brazil from the 16th through the 21st century. The first part of the course covers the Portuguese colonization of America with its commercial practices and slavery; the colonial regions and the construction of colonial identities; political emancipation and the imperial state; and the crisis of slavery and the Republican projects. The second half of the course turns to the historical experience of the Brazilian Republic; the relations between society and state and the formation of the capitalist order; other political and social projects; authoritarianism and democracy.

This course offers an interdisciplinary study of health and the environment. Topics include: concepts of health and environment and their relationships with current patterns of global economic development and population growth; sustainable development in the current economic, social, and environmental context; health and environment as constitutional law; health, environment, and quality of life; public health and environmental epidemiology; environmental sanitation; urban and rural ecosystems; perception, evaluation, analysis, and management of environmental risks.

This course discusses the creative process in the illustration of the visual narrative in children's books. Topics include: cultural aspects of story context; conceptual and symbolic questions of illustration; development of artistic processes; functions and means in different representations; cutting, drawing, and painting techniques; transparency and opacity; light and shadow; perspective; composition of visual narratives.