Theology Graduate Program (Bachelor's Degree)
 

The courses presented in this schedule are part of the undergraduate curricula in effect at PUC-Rio. The courses are identified by the initials of the Department which administers them, followed by a four-digit number, where one thousand indicates the level at which the course is taught. In the case of Undergraduate courses, the number 1.

The workload of each subject is indicated by 3 numbers in parentheses, separated by hyphens, which mean, respectively: the weekly number of theoretical, exercise and laboratory classes. Thus: (4-0-3) means 4 hours of lecture classes per week, no exercise classes and 3 hours of laboratory classes per week.

Disciplines

1st Period

The relations between faith and reason in theological discourse. The historical evolution of Western Christian theological thought. The current demands and tasks of theology in its interaction with reason.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Analysis of the communication situation at the university and identification of the discourse code and strategies appropriate to this situation. Typology, properties and qualities of the academic text. 

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Overview of the history of the biblical people and their writings. The Bible as a book: languages, written and oral transmission, ancient translations and material preservation of the texts, formation of the OT and NT. Collections of biblical books, the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant canons. The Bible as a sacred book: the question of revelation, inspiration and inerrancy. Methods of critical reading of biblical texts: the historical-critical method and other methods of approaching sacred texts. Questions of hermeneutics.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Revelation and faith: foundations of theology; from apologetics to fundamental theology; the anthropocentric starting point: the human being, hearer of the Word; Scripture, source of Revelation; tradition and the magisterium of the church; faith, its conditioning and implications.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 6

Tipo: AC

CR:

2nd Period

Koiné Greek of the New Testament: Alphabet; notion of cases; peculiarities of Greek (accents, spirits and pronunciation). Morphology: I and II declensions (article, noun, adjective, pronoun) and verbs. Memorization of declensions and lexicons. Translation of sentences from Greek to Portuguese. Grammatical elements of morphology and syntax using exercises and reading with support from the Gospels of John and Mark.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The nature of theology. Theology as a science of faith. Proper object and methods. The identity of Christian theology. The sources of Christian theology. The theologian's tasks.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Tipo: OC

CR: 12

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

3rd Period

Literacy. Transliteration. Reading. Grammar: elements of morphology and syntax. Vocabulary acquisition (about 250 words).

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

P. Bourdieu and the concept of religious field. The Brazilian religious field: transformations and continuities. The question of religious transit, syncretism, double belonging and hybridism. Catholicism in Brazil. Historical Protestantism. Pentecostalism and Neopentecostalism. Afro-Brazilian religions.   Secularism. The "without religion". Pastoral perspectives.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The nature of the writings: between history and kerygma and the newness of Christianity. Formation of the gospels: pre-pascal community, post-pascal community, and redaction. The synoptic question and possible solutions. History of interpretation: the gospels subjected to historical criticism. The historical, political, social and religious background of Palestine in the 1st century. Specific introduction to each of the synoptic gospels and Acts of the Apostles. Exegesis using the historical critical method.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

The content of Christology is the being and the time, the message and the following, the doing and the suffering, the life, the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The course starts from the question of the search for the historical Jesus, then focuses on the itinerary traveled by Jesus of Nazareth in the stage of his earthly life. Next, the theological significance of his death and resurrection is studied, and then the main Christologies of the New Testament are analyzed. It studies the main affirmations of faith of the Church about Jesus Christ, trying to perceive their actuality for the human being of today; it also deepens some affirmations on the mystery of the Incarnation and, finally, how to understand the Salvation of Jesus Christ and how to communicate it to the human being of today.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 8

4th Period

The environment of Gnosticism: understanding Gnosis and its interrelationship with Christianity. The tradition: the place and thought of the community of the Apostle John; Texts: evolution of Johannine thought in relation to the synoptics; studies of redactional layers in John; approximation of John's theology with Luke; Revelation: the situation of Christians under the Roman empire in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD; exegesis of select texts and the theology of resistance.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Presentation-discussion of the new approaches on the process of formation of the Pentateuch (diachronic approach). Systematic study of each book according to its canonical presentation (synchronic approach). Reading and analysis of selected texts.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 12

Christian reflection on the mystery of God: starting from Revelation. Thought and discourse on God in a secular and pluralistic age. The God of the Bible: henotheism, monolatry, monotheism; God in the New Testament: Jesus of Nazareth and the experience of the Holy Spirit. The Trinitarian faith: the Councils and the symbols of faith. Trinitarian faith today: open questions and provocations of faith.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

5th Period

Systematic-pastoral reflection on the human being in the light of Christian Revelation, his identity, the historical challenges to this identity and the personal, social and environmental implications of this identity, for the current moment in human history, characterized by an epochal change. Emphasis is placed on the creaturely condition of the human being and the relationship to sin.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

The prophetic phenomenon in the Ancient Near East and particularly in Israel: conceptualization; the phenomenon in the Ancient Near East; biblical terminology for prophetic figures. The prophets and the prophetic books: diachronic and synchronic aspects. The prophetic books: Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel; the Twelve Prophets. Exegesis of selected texts.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Situation: socio-historical-political and religious environment of the 1st century AD. Historical, cultural and religious location of the apostle Paul. Writings: styles and forms of scripture in the Greco-Roman world. Introduction to each of the Pauline letters. Exegesis of selected texts. Study of the main themes of Pauline theology. Introduction to the letter to the Hebrews.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Investigation of the life-giving action of the Holy Spirit in light of the biblical revelation of the Old and New Testaments. The experience of the Spirit in the patristic theology of the "ecclesia orans". Christian spirituality and witness as an expression of life according to the Spirit. The Holy Spirit in conciliar and Latin American theology. The historical approach to the presence of the Spirit in history and in the world.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Introduction to the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Analysis of selected texts. Presentation and analysis of the results obtained by archaeology and comparative history, which contribute to a better understanding of ancient Israel.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

6th Period

The sacramental dimension existing in the Church: its origins, foundations and dogmatic, systematic-pastoral structure. The relationship of the salvific mystery contained in the sacraments. The sacramentality of Christ and its ecclesiological incidence: the sacramentality of the Church. Pneumatological foundation of the sacraments and their current understanding. The sacraments as sensitive signs of God's action in human life.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Moral Theology and new paradigms: guidelines for the study and research in Moral Theology today; Ethical and moral crisis in our society; Rescue of the great references and their epistemological status; The sources of morality; The Christian source and its historical developments; The Christian source and its basic coordinates; Anthropological foundation; Natural law and human nature. The moral standards, virtues, the call of God and human response.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

7th Period

Central theme: the salvation of Christ. God's saving initiative in Jesus Christ (offer of grace). The acceptance of salvation by human freedom: the fundamental orientation of life to love and justice. Dimensions of Christian existence: martyrial, Trinitarian, socio-cultural, ecological. Universal and cosmic dimensions of the salvation of Jesus Christ. The liberating power of the self-communication of the Triune God in and through Jesus Christ. The experience of the "new creation" (grace).

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Initiation to Christian life. The theology of Baptism. The theology of Confirmation. The theology of the Eucharist. Current problems of the pastoral care of the initiation to Christian life. The catechumenal inspiration of all pastoral work.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

The foundations of the practice or action that derives from the act of faith. The historical constitution of pastoral or practice as a theological discipline. Specificity of Pastoral Theology in the theological system. Current requirements. Epistemological status and main methods.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The personal and communal spiritual experience in the permanent dialogue between the initiative of God that calls to a personal relationship with Him and the response of the person that involves the totality of his/her faculties and abilities. Reflection on the experience of God throughout tradition until the emergence of Spiritual Theology. The various schools of spirituality. Christian prayer as an expression of this dialogue between Creator and creature.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

The causes and the emergence of the Reformation (Lutheran, Calvinist and Anglican). The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. The Council of Trent and its implementation. Christianity and the structures of society. The beginnings of the Church on the American Continent. The Church and the emergence of liberal society. Roman centralization in the 19th century. The social teaching of the Church. The relationship between Christian faith and science. The modernist crisis. The 'new Christendom'; The Second Vatican Council. The post-conciliar Church.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Part I: Ethics of Sexuality and contemporaneity, Post-Conciliar Ecclesial Magisterium. Anthropological-Christian foundation. Education for life. Pastoral perspectives. Part II: Bioethics: emergence and conceptual developments. Anthropological foundations. Principles and Models. Ecclesial Magisterium. Biotechnologies. Bioethics and Human Research Committees. Emerging Challenges.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

8th Period

The sacraments of Penance and the Anointing of the Sick, based on current conceptions and practices, biblical tradition and historical-ecclesial evolution. Aspects related to sacramentality in its relation to the theological, ecclesial, and anthropological dimensions, with emphasis on the human condition marked by weaknesses and infirmities that affect the totality of the human being.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Investigation of the nature of the liturgy in light of the liturgical Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium. Biblical research of the liturgy (Old and New Testament). Patristic theology of the "ecclesia orans". Historical approach to liturgy. Spirituality, catechesis and pastoral care of the liturgy according to conciliar and Latin American theology.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Starting from the theme of the ministeriality of the Church, study the sacrament of Holy Orders from a biblical-historical-dogmatic perspective.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The beginnings of evangelization in Brazil. The action of the missionaries. The Royal Patronage. The popular experience of faith. The lay associations. The conflicts with the Empire. The role of religious orders. The Romanization process. The advent of the Republic. Social Catholicism. The role of the laity. The renewal after Vatican Council II and the recent transformations in the religious scenario.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The social, economic and cultural issue in contemporary times; Option for the poor: biblical, patristic, medieval perspective and the Magisterium of the Church. The Social Doctrine of the Church: assumptions, systematic presentation of documents, principles, values and criteria for judgment; current issue.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Notions on the juridical world in general and particularly the ecclesial juridical dimension. Canon Law in the socio-ecclesial reality. Brief history of Canon Law. Organization of the People of God: the Christian faithful. The rights and duties of the faithful, clergy and consecrated life.  The theological-legal aspects of the universal Church and the particular Churches. The organization of the universal Church (Roman Pontiff and Episcopal collegiality, Roman Curia) and of the particular Churches (diocesan bishops, councils, parishes).

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Motivation and method in research. Genres of academic texts. The monograph: definition and structure.  Choosing a theme and preparing a project. Searching for material and summarizing. Adaptations in the project. Writing the text: first draft and final draft. Bibliography and bibliographical references. Revision and finishing of the work.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

9th Period

Eschatology as Hope. The biblical and theological foundations of eschatology. The eschatology of the world (Collective) and the eschatology of the person (Individual). Current issues in eschatology.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Biblical and Magisterial foundations regarding Christian marriage: in the Old Testament, the New Testament, Patristics, Vatican II. Theological perspectives: love, sexuality, spirituality. Essential values of marriage: unity, fecundity, indissolubility, fidelity. Marriage as a sacrament. The mission of the family today.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Investigation of the constitutive triad of the liturgical Constitution "Sacosanctum Concilium": Sacraments, liturgical year and liturgy of the hours. The liturgical theology of "Sacosanctum Concilium" as a starting point and paradigm for the biblical, patristic, catechetical and pastoral study of these topics.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

Conceptual aspects: the concept of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. Historical aspects: the ecumenical movement and Catholic participation. Theological aspects: design of unity; unity and diversity; bonds of communion. Concreteness of ecumenism and pastoral aspects: spiritual ecumenism; ecumenical dialogue; collaboration in society. Difficulties and perspectives.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Mapping biblical and extra-biblical literature between the 2nd century BC and the 2nd century AD. Apocalyptic: concept; the book of Daniel. Cultural and literary importance of the Jewish Diaspora; the Seventy translation. Religious groups within ancient Judaism, in particular the Qumran group. The non-canonical literature of ancient Judaism.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Notions: religious freedom; identity; tolerance; dialogue. Biblical, theological and pastoral topics on: Christianity in the face of other religions; the question of dialogue and proclamation. Special topics for dialogue: peace; justice, ecology; religious experience.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The juridical-theological reality of the sacraments in general. The sacraments of the Latin Church from a theological-legal point of view: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist (sacraments of Christian initiation), Penance, Anointing of the sick and Holy Orders. Canonical matrimony in the Latin Church. Canonical impediments, vices of consent, and canonical form. Comparative study of marriage in the Code of Canon Law and marriage in the Brazilian Civil Code. Basic notions of the matrimonial law of the Oriental Churches.

Tipo: OC

CR: 4

The impact of present-day society on Christianity. Topics to be studied include: notion and culture, genesis of today's society, individualism and society, emergence of subjectivity, inculturation of faith, pastoral care in a plural culture, crisis of institutions, insufficiency of traditional language about God, transmission of faith in today's context, unity of faith in the plurality of readings.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

10th Period

The theological horizon opened by Vatican Council II and the pastoral challenges of the Latin American context. Mary according to the Scriptures. Historical-dogmatic approach. Systematic reflection, meanings of Mary for the Christian faith. Mary in the life of the Church and spirituality: liturgy, invocation, devotions. Latin American Magisterium. Popular expressions of Marianism in Latin America and the Caribbean. Pastoral issues.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Variable content.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

The current topics of Special and Applied Pastoral Theology. The pastoral planning. The evangelizing action. Catechetics. Preaching and homily. The diaconate. Christian witness.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Presentation of a scientific paper on a theological topic, under the guidance of a professor.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Summary of the contents of the Theological Treatises.

Tipo: OC

CR: 2

Indefinite Period

Tipo: PC

CR: 2

Tipo: PC

CR: 16

Tipo: PC

CR: 24

Tipo: OC

CR: 6

Group of Electives

TEO 0120 – Theology Electives (02 credits)

The seminar consists of research, discussion, and debate on the main schools or classic texts of Christian spirituality, considering the patristic, medieval, modern, contemporary, Vatican II and post-Vatican II periods, and Latin American spirituality. It adopts, in its methodology, an integrative and relational anthropological perspective, considering the questions raised by the current context.

CR: 2

Study of the canonical and civil aspects concerning the administration of the parish institution, especially with regard to the management of the Church's temporal goods, the previous processes and subsequent registrations of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Matrimony, as well as the implications of secular legislation (civil, fiscal, labor, and criminal).

CR: 4

The practice of pastoral counseling in the context of Christian Churches. Models of the practice of Pastoral Counseling. The Pastoral Counseling in the Catholic Church. Ministeriality and Pastoral Counseling. The formation necessary for pastoral agents involved in the practice of Pastoral Counseling. Possibilities of the Counseling practice and study of concrete experiences. New dimensions: Pastoral Counseling and mediation of conflicts.

CR: 2

Morphology: III declension (noun; adjective, pronoun; numeral); verbs; prepositions, conjunctions. Syntax: cases; verbal aspects; compound periods. Translation and morphosyntactic analysis of Mk 1-2. Memorization of declensions and lexicons. The semantics of NT Greek.

CR: 2

Relation of Greek morphology and syntax to Portuguese: cases and declensions. Morphology: variable and invariable words. The three Greek declensions: nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals; present, imperfect, future and aorist verbs in the active, middle and passive voice. Syntax: prepositions and ruled cases; compound periods; verb aspects. Reading New Testament texts. Translation with morphological and syntactical analysis of texts from Mark.

CR: 4

Verbs: perfect and pluperfect in the active and mediopassive voices; table of verbs in all tenses, moods and voices. Conclusion of the study of verbs: regular, contract and irregular. TEO study of the complete paradigm of verbs in mi. Syntax of cases, verbs and prepositions. Translation and morphosyntactic analysis of Mk 14 - 16:8; Rom 8; 1Tm 3:1-7. Communicative strategies of the texts. Semantics of the koiné Greek of the NT.

CR: 4

The verb moods and conjugations in Hebrew. Analysis of verb forms. Translation of simple periods. Elements of morphology and syntax. Vocabulary acquisition.

CR: 2

Elements of morphology. Transliteration system. Reading, term analysis and translation of short periods. Vocabulary acquisition, based on some texts from Deut 1-11.

CR: 4

Study of the modes and conjugations of the verb in Hebrew; analysis of verb forms, translation of longer and more complex periods in texts of medium difficulty, based on some texts from Genesis; Judges; Ruth; Psalms.

CR: 4

TEO 0121 – Philosophy for Theology Elective I (16 credits)

Philosophical reflection on Philosophy: its origins, objects, methods, and divisions into disciplines.

CR: 4

Study of the main metaphysical, cosmological and gnosiological questions and the solutions proposed by philosophy in the period between Patristics and the 15th century.

CR: 4

The main currents of contemporary philosophy: phenomenology, existentialism, post-structuralism, hermeneutics, deconstructivism, analytic philosophy.

CR: 4

Introduction to meditation on the problem of God in today's world. The historical currents that determine it, its aporias, attempts to overcome them, and the impasse they reach. The way to solution.

CR: 4

TEO 0122 – Philosophy for Theology Electives II (24 credits)

Study of the development of Greek philosophical thought from its origins: from the pre-Socratics to Plato (included).

CR: 4

Study of Aristotle's work by approaching the main themes of his philosophy.

CR: 4

Study of the main questions and the solutions proposed by the philosophy in force in the period between the 18th century: empiricism, rationalism, and skepticism.

CR: 4

Study of the main questions and the solutions proposed by the philosophy in force in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially transcendental idealism and absolute idealism.

CR: 4

Analysis of the main issues and types of approaches concerning the problem of knowledge. Nature and method of the critical problem. Discussion about "the truth" of knowledge. The "knowledge" in the main conceptions of philosophy.

CR: 4

Analysis of metaphysical issues such as: substance, causality, unity, identity, multiplicity.

CR: 4

Philosophical reflection on man. Discussion of the problem of subjectivity and its ontological foundations.

CR: 4

Analysis of moral experience: the dialecticity of the human condition, action, happiness, finalism of action, values, obligation and sanction. Interpretations of moral experience: main currents of ethical thought. The essence and foundation of morality. The objective moral order: prescriptivity, universality and variety of moral norms; natural law; law and morality.

CR: 4

The objective of the course is to stimulate the student's reflection about the conditions of elaboration of scientific knowledge and to provide them with the conceptual basis for understanding the anthropological and epistemological foundations on which the sciences and their methods are based.

CR: 4

Study of the various approaches developed in the course of history on the subject of man in the world, with the aim of stimulating philosophical reflection on the subject.

CR: 4

Study of authors who have set specific trends in the philosophical debate today.

CR: 4

Study of authors who have set specific trends in the philosophical debate today.

CR: 4

A study of the problem of knowledge according to the tendencies it assumes in contemporary thought.

CR: 4

Relationship of logic to the central issues of philosophy, with emphasis on epistemological aspects (justification, deduction, definition), metaphysical aspects (truth, essence, individuation) and linguistic aspects (term, proposition, judgment, logical form). Notions of the historical development of logic from Aristotle to Frege.

CR:

The modern empirical sciences, which were constituted at the beginning of the 19th century, and the classical science project, characteristic of the 17th and 18th centuries. The relationship between science and philosophy.

CR: 4

Analysis of the issues that metaphysics deals with, especially the notions of space, time, finite and infinite.

CR: 4

Study of the problem of nature in the philosophical tradition. The problem of knowledge of nature from the point of view of its metaphysical foundation; the critique of the metaphysical foundation and the questioning of the possibility of knowledge of nature.

CR: 4

Philosophical reflection on questions concerning the problem of subjectivity and its ontological foundations.

CR: 4

Further analysis and interpretation of moral experience. Controversial issues of ethics. Nature of norms of morality. Interpretation of moral principles.

CR: 4

Study of the meaning of human action and the relationship between nature and culture. The various theories about culture: phenomenological interpretation; dialectical interpretation; structuralist interpretation; psychoanalytical interpretation; Christian interpretation. Trends in contemporary culture: culture and the civilization of labor; culture and technique; culture and ideology.

CR: 4

Nature and function of language. Formal language and ordinary language: logical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic aspects.

CR: 4

Philosophical analysis of aesthetic problems; significance of art forms; the aesthetic experience.

CR: 4

Levels of the social; solidarity and historicity; the common good; philosophical anthropology and the social; fact and meaning of socialization; meaning of work; foundations of a development ethic.

CR: 4

Analysis of philosophical doctrines on politics. Nature, origin, constitution and purpose of the political community. The forms of government. Ethics and politics.

CR: 4

Theory of art; the problematics surrounding the production of the work of art; nature of creativity; concepts characteristic of different conceptions of the work and art. Relationship between art and society. The concept of art.

CR: 4

Discussion of the problem of beauty in the different currents of philosophical thought.

CR: 4

ELU 0900 – Non-departmental electives (06 credits)

Familiarization of the undergraduate with the world of deafness. The deaf subject in a hearing world. Presentation and development of Brazilian sign language. Libras as a legitimate language of the deaf community and the signs as a natural alternative for the linguistic expression. The Portuguese language as a second language, instrumental for the development of reading and writing by the deaf learner.

CR: 2

Characteristics of Brazilian sign language (libras) and its importance in the social and discursive development of deaf people. The perspective of deafness from an anthropological perspective. The deaf as a subject capable of developing their potential.

CR: 2

Colonization in the Modern Period. Identities, hierarchies and order in colonial slave society. Social tensions and political culture. Sociabilities in the colonial experience. Political emancipation and the construction of the Imperial State. Scientific travels, romantic movement: images of Brazil. Slavery and the different subjects in imperial society. The formation of nationality and social tensions. The crisis of the monarchic-slave regime.

CR: 4

The historical experience of the Brazilian Republic. The plurality of republican projects and actions: ideals, conflicts and practices. Authoritarianism and Democracy: conceptualization and practice in Brazil. Memory, identity and citizenship: paths of inclusion and exclusion in Brazilian society.

CR: 4

The world scenario after World War II: the Cold War culture. The contestations and new political alternatives in the 1960s and 1970s. The crisis of the socialist experiments. Technological development and globalization. Ethnic-religious conflicts: the West-East debate. Space, time, and nation at the end of the 20th century.

CR: 4

Culture as a network of shared meanings. Culture as a political expression of the social insertion of the different groups that make up society: the idea of diversity. The distanced look and participant observation: the methodology of fieldwork. Relativism and ethnocentrism: the use of the concept of culture to understand the relationship between different social groups.

CR: 4

Religion and modernity. The social construction of religious life. The sacred and the profane. Individualism and ethics of salvation. Rationalism and the disenchantment of the world. Analysis of specific theodicies. Religious diversity. Religious and social spheres. Social organization of the religious field. Religious field in Brazil. Religion and politics. Religion and fundamentalism.

CR: 4

Semiology of communication discourses. Texture, text and marks of meaning production. The visual codes: the audiovisual and the object. Use of codes: ideology, rhetoric and discursive practices.

CR: 2

Actuality of Roman law studies. Situation of Roman law in the history of law. Specificities of Roman law. Approaches to its study. External History: kingship, republic, principality and dominion; respective sources of law (custom, Law of the XII Tables, praetorian law, jurisprudence, senatoconsuls, constitutions, Corpus Juris Civilis). Internal history: concepts and institutes in the fields of civil law (persons, obligations, family, succession), procedural, tax, political and international criminal law. Romanistic legacy of Brazilian law. Constitution and expansion of the Roman-Germanic legal system.

CR: 2

Differentiation between concepts of culture, cyberspace, digital culture; Internet and interactive resources; access to information; hypertext; analysis of media products in different digital spaces (blog, wiki, VLE, social networks; broadcasting); multimedia and Internet for teaching purposes; virtual learning communities; authorship, production and remix.

CR: 4

Concepts and approaches to environmental ethics. Environmental ethics in the philosophical rationalities of Western culture. Environmental ethics in traditional cultures. Environmental ethics and biodiversity. Environmental ethics and spirituality. Environmental ethics and the great social-environmental challenges of the national and international community. Ethics and environmental education. The experiences of construction of ethical-environmental values in the processes of formation of multiplying agents in local communities.

CR: 2

Study of the main mythical Greek-Latin gods and heroes, applied to a particular literary work.

CR: 4

Relations between psychology and new interactive media. Psychological consequences of the entry of the new media into the life of today's human being. Identification of the modes of being, that is, thinking, acting, feeling, relating to others, etc., that predominate in contemporary times. Analysis of how these ways of being are being constantly altered as a result of the evolution of digital technologies.

CR: 4

The human being in his relationship with the world. Psychological processes related to perception, sensation, cognition: Learning, memory, motivation, emotion and language.

CR: 2

Main problems related to the concepts of personality structure, dynamics and development. The biological and social determinants.

CR: 4

Historical-social processes and elaboration of new identities. Alternative ways of occupying the city and resignification of spaces for interlocution. Affective codes. Musical aesthetics. Body and behavioral grammars.

CR: 4

Conceptualization and contextualization of human rights. Citizenship in the different models of sociopolitical organization in the West, since the 19th century: from natural rights to universal declarations of human rights. Classic typologies of human rights. The social construction of human rights. Human rights and citizenship in Brazil. Contemporary vectors for the discussion of citizenship: ethnicity, gender and new cleavages of identities.

CR: 4

Race, mestizaje and nationality in the turn-of-the-century generation. The critique of the racial paradigm and the celebration of the mestizo and cordial society in the 1930s. The period of institutionalization of the social sciences: functionalism, the tradition of community studies, the debate about the relationship between indigenous societies and the Brazilian national society. 

CR: 4

Mapping issues: violence, power and order. Critical analysis of functionalist approaches to violence; examination of issues of order and violence and their relationship to social order. The multiple interpretative codes of Brazilian violence: examination of themes present within the question of violence and criminality.

CR: 4

The place of the body in anthropological reflection. The body in the re-evaluation of the relations between nature and culture. The notion of body techniques. The body in the civilizing process. Body and grammar of the sexes. The body as a value. The approach to the use and "experiences" of the body in a comparative perspective.

CR: 4

Study of the basic structures of the Latin language and analysis of their relevance to the understanding of the Portuguese language.

CR: 4

ACP 0900 – Complementary Activities (12 credits)

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