Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

This course covers the history of photography and modern photojournalism as well as techniques, technologies, and ethics in photojournalism. It also addresses the language of photography and the construction of narrative in photojournalism, multimedia photojournalism. It includes reporting, essays, and documentation.

This course focuses on visual representations as a path to recognition and cultural identity. Conceptual, cultural, and symbolic issues in image compositions within the context of inclusion are discussed as well as understanding and developing inclusive artistic processes and techniques for visual representation.

This course is an introduction to the study of leadership with a focus on research in the international literature. Emphasis is placed on advancing the understanding of leadership through a focus on the rich complexities of human behavior and social interactions. The focus is on leadership theory and research within and across formal organizational settings and societal contexts, leadership, effectiveness, and ethics.

This course covers financial systems, currency, interest rates such as term and risk structure, and efficient markets. It also covers financial structures and banking management, financial regulation, financial crises in developed and emerging economies, central banks, money creation, monetary policy, intertemporal inconsistency, mechanisms of monetary policy transmission, transparency, communication and expectations, and inflation targeting.

This course covers the historical development of journalistic activity in Brazil across different media. It investigates the relationships between journalism, culture, and power in Brazil.

This course addresses the definition of business models and the understanding on how to identify and build existing and innovative business models. The objectives of the course are for students to understand the fundamentals of business models, recognize the strategic importance of business models, identify and differentiate various types of business models, analyze hybrid business models, and examine the relationship between business models and industry lifecycles. 

This course explores the relationship between language and cognition as well as the role of language in human cognition. Topics include: linguistic productivity; linguistic relativism and determinism; the relationship between language and conceptual systems (semantic memory, schemas, and scripts); the relationship between language and intentional systems and its interface with pragmatics.