Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

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 provides a broad understanding of how our brain works. The course structure is focused on active learning with a balance of lectures and hands-on activities. Topics include perception, reasoning, memory, attention, emotions, and decision-making, among other cognitive traits. The course is accessible to students with different backgrounds and provides important new insights into how our brain gives rise to our abilities to perceive, act, and think.

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 develops a broad analysis of the history of human rights and democracy in Brazil. It begins by discussing how the idea itself of human rights appeared in history worldwide to stablish a critical approach of the topic, considering the historical experiences of the country’s invasion, slavery, torture, and dictatorships of the past. The agenda of memory, truth, justice, and reparation in the reconstruction of democracy is foundational. The course considers how memory affects society, its culture, and the political system, and the frame of rights of the Constitution of 1988. The course treats crucial topics about human rights in the country, its limitations, and challenges.

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.

This course provides an exploration of contemporary urban social movements. It examines this topic through concepts such as human rights, re-democratization, structural inequalities in Brazil, and collective mobilization. The course also explores the theory related to social movements, including conflict, collective identity, social actor, repertoires, national and transnational networks, and recognition theory.

This course provides a study of deafness. It looks at the development of Brazilian sign language as the primary language of the deaf community and explores signs as a natural alternative for linguistic expression.