| BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION |
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ADM9976 - Introduction to Strategy in a Globalized World
(4 credits) |
| Course Description |
Basic concepts and tools for strategic management from a global perspective. Assessing and ensuring strategic fit considering global opportunities and challenges. Shift in paradigm of multinational strategies from national differentiation to globalization. International alliances: focus on joint ventures. Cultural challenges. Balanced Scorecards for firms with global strategies. |
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| BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION |
| Course |
ADM9980 - International Negotiation - Prof. Roger James Volkema
(4 credits) |
| Course Description |
Negotiating in a world of increasing professional and organizational interdependence. Cultural differences and negotiation. Relational development, communication styles, tactics/behaviors, agreements and negotiation. |
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| HISTORY |
| Course |
HIS9827 - Brazilian History
(4 credits) |
| Course Description |
South America in the context of the Portuguese ultramarine Empire. Black and Indian slavery. The Catholic Church: hierarchies and social identity in the colony. Political emancipation and the construction of the Imperial State. Nationality formation and social tensions. Crisis of slavery and the end of the monarchic regime. The historical experience of the Brazilian Republic. Authoritarianism and Democracy. Inclusion and exclusion in the Brazilian society. |
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| SOCIOLOGY |
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SOC9174 - Contemporary Brazilian Debates from a Sociological and Anthropological Perspective
(4 credits) |
| Course Description |
This course aims to give an introduction to contemporary Brazilian anthropology and sociology. Beginning with central problems which influenced the constitution of these two disciplines, centering around the ideas of Gilberto Freyre and Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, we will discuss modernity and Portuguese tradition; the historical role of the State and its relations with society; public life and private values; family and social solidarity; “racial democracy” and criticisms; Brazilian modernism. The course will then highlight some specific contemporary subject discussions in both areas: violence and urban life, race and inequality, religion, cultural artistic manifestations, especially Tropicalism, Brazilian funk and “manguebeat”. |
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| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
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IRI9602 - Brazilian Foreign Policy I
(4 credits) |
| Course Description |
The course will explain how the main Brazilian Foreign Policy paradigms were formulated as well as discuss the role of economic development on the Brazilian foreign policy contents. The following issues will be discussed: The Republican regime and foreign policy; Americanism and Pan-Americanism; Cold War and foreign policy; The impact of economic development on Brazilian Foreign Policy; The Independent Foreign Policy and the Globalism; The Foreign Policy of Military Regime and the Americanism; Geopolitics and National Security Doctrine; Globalism revival and consolidation; Democracy and Foreign Policy; The post Cold War and Brazilian international insertion; Actors and perceptions of Brazilian Foreign Policy. |
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| LETTERS |
| Course |
LET9419 - Special Topics in Portuguese Language. Study and discussion of special topics related to the Portuguese language studies.
(4 credits) (Semester II) |
| Course Description |
Intercultural studies: parameters of analysis. Identification of aspects of the Brazilian culture and language interaction that may be relevant in multicultural/intercultural contexts. Practical work with Brazilian films, TV soap operas and sitcoms, song lyrics, press articles, publicity campaigns and short stories. |
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| LETTERS |
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LET9420 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE - Brazilian Language and Culture: from stereotyping to Reality
(4 credits) (semester I) |
| Course Description |
Approach and discussion of the Brazilian culture in its most relevant aspects to students who come from other cultures. Rethink Brazil through the read-ing of possible stereotypes present in images internationally disseminated, taking into consideration the process of construction of the Brazilian Portu-guese Language and the verbal, non-verbal and social interactional patterns currently in use. Effective contact with different cultural aspects such as ethnic diversity, art, religion, folklore, culinary and language through theo-retical readings, debates and eventual lectures about specific cultural topics. |
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| PRODUCTION ENGINEERING |
| Course |
IND1022 - Supply Chain Logistics Management
(2 credits) - Special topics on Production Engineering |
| Course Description |
Scope: The discipline exams traditional logistics issues within the context of the supply chain. Program: main definitions, logistics evolution, performance management systems, primary logistics activities (network design, information, transportation management, inventory management and strategy, warehousing, materials handling, packaging), supply chain management (organization and relationship management, information technology), trends, business cases. Reference: Supply Chain Logistics Management, Donald J. Bowersox, David J. CLoss, and M. Bixbt Cooper, McGrawHill ISBN 0-07-235100-4, 2002. Requisite: Basic notions of operations management and the student must be fluent in English (Portuguese and other languages will not be accepted in the classroom).Evaluation: Test (50%) and Business Case (50%). |
