Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

This course explores concepts and types of innovations. It looks at the innovation process and technological catch-up including the differences between developed and emerging countries. This course discusses factors influencing innovation, dynamic capabilities, and absorptive capacity such as the role of markets and clients. It also examines the role of innovation in sustainability and economic development.

This course examines the key events and characteristics of Brazilian foreign policy of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century. It discusses the various academic and political viewpoints regarding the general international integration of the country, provides a critical analysis of the decision-making of foreign policy, and explores the central themes of the country's international agenda.

This course offers an introduction to analysis including: sets and relations; demonstrations by induction and contradiction; natural numbers; finite and infinite cardinalities, enumerability; rational and real numbers; limits and convergence of numerical sequences and series; straight topology-- open, closed, compact, connected, dense; Cantor ternary set; continuous functions-- Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem, Intermediate Value Theorem, uniform continuity.

This course focuses on the Brazilian Republic from the 1920s to present day. It begins with political projects and social movements in the last years of the First Republic, followed by corporatism, labor, and social legislation. It explores culture politics, and ethnic and racial relations in the New State as well as industrialization and urbanization. Topics include: art, culture, and diversity in the second half of the 20th century; authoritarianism, democracy, and human rights; dilemmas of re-democratization; memory, identity, and citizenship.

This course explores the internet and mobile platforms for marketing in the digital age. It discusses various types of marketing such as online, mobile, website, search engine, email, blog, social media, and multimedia. Other topics include: online advertising; pay per click display ads; web marketing mix; web marketing plan; managing online and mobile marketing activities.

This course offers an introduction to geotechnical engineering. Topics include: origin and formation of soils; geological-geotechnical profiles-- direct and indirect surveys; undisturbed and dented sampling; soil characterization-- granulometric distribution, physical indexes, limits of consistency, geotechnical classification systems; soil structures, mineralogy of clays, and compacted soils; tensions in soil masses-- geostatic stresses and induced stresses; effective stress and pressure; capillarity; percolation in soils-- concept of loads, permanent flow, permeability coefficient.

This course provides an introduction to the characteristics and operations of the advertising market. Topics include: concepts and definitions of publicity and advertising; political, social, and economic context of advertising; elements of the advertising system-- agencies, advertisers, brokers, carriers and suppliers; agency structure and advertising departments; history of advertising in Brazil.

This course is designed to immerse in some of the central debater of contemporary western philosophy. To achieve this goal, we will engage in a critical exploration of such topics as knowledge and certainty, science and method, freedom and determinism, and authority and the state. A student will be expected to be able to articulate the various philosophical problems considered in the course and to assess the various arguments pro and con surrounding the proposed solutions. The course is fundamentally based on reading, discussing and writing about distinct philosophical questions.

This course examines the various social problems that can lead to the development of sustainable business organizations that seek to positively impact society and the environment. Topics covered include: concepts and historical progress of the social sector in Brazil; legal framework for Brazilian organizations; fundraising mechanisms; social business planning.