Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

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. 

This course provides a study of communication from a socioeconomic perspective. It covers the basic concepts of micro and macroeconomics, including supply and demand, competitive and monopolistic markets, international trade, exchange rate, interest, inflation, GDP, unemployment, public policies, and the financial market. It also explores global crises of capitalism, role of the state, globalization, competitiveness, and technology. 

This course provides an overview of contemporary literature in Portuguese-speaking African countries. It explores poetry and prose in colonial and post-colonial contexts, writing and orality, ancestry, tradition, modernity, appropriation of the colonizer's language, local variants, and cultural resistance movements.