Elective Courses – Master’s and Doctoral Programs

Master’s and Doctoral Programs

• Bibliometric Analysis – 30 hrs.
  Types of scientific productions. Journals and indexing databases. Journal quality indicators. Scientometrics and bibliometrics. Main bibliometric indicators. Bibliometric mapping of collaboration networks.

• Bioethics – 30 hrs.
  Historical background of ethics in research. Major codes, declarations and resolutions that address the topic. Ethics in several areas. Types of projects that must meet the requirements of CEP and its procedures. Organization of the various thematic areas of the CEP. Requirements of the CEP in the elaboration of a project. Procedures for registration and submission of projects at Plataforma Brasil.

• City Rights – 30 hrs.
  The city in the constitutional plan. City as environmental assets synthesis. Social rights and right to the city in the constitutional plan. The economic order and the right to the city. Social function of the property. Constitutional distribution of competencies. The City Statute and its legal instruments. Legal protection of pollution (noise, electromagnetic, air, water, soil). Natural and cultural environment. Specially protected territorial spaces. Environmental responsibilities within the urban territorial space.

• Development and Sustainability – 30 hrs.
  Growth x Development. Sustainable development: the pillars of sustainability. Environmental Management: history, evolution, and concepts. Environmental Management Instruments: command and control; self-control or self-regulation. Sustainability in the management of organizations and in the supply chain.

• Economic and Social Indicators – 30 hrs.
  Research and the measurement of reality. Concepts and properties of social indicators and their role in planning. Data system and indicators. Social and economic indicators, evaluation and formulation of public policies. Operationalization of concepts. Field research and index construction. Objective and subjective indicators. Experiences in the construction of indicators in social research.

• Education and Development – 30 hrs.
  Education in the context of the development of the productive forces. Educational system and thought system: cultural reproduction and social reproduction. Dilemma in the capital x labor relation and conceptions of the role of the capitalist state in conforming the educational model in Brazil. Education and economic and social
  development: theories of capital.

• Education Quality Indicators – 30 hrs.
  Evaluation of education and in education. Evaluation of education in elementary school (IDEB, abbreviation in Portuguese), high school education (ENEM, abbreviation in Portuguese), higher education [IGC/CPC/ENADE (abbreviations in Portuguese), Instrument for the Evaluation of Courses, PISA (abbreviation in Portuguese), University Rankings] and post-graduation ( four-year evaluation system of Capes). Evaluation in education (competitions for teachers, job, and salary plans, scholarships for scientific productivity).

• Energy and Development – 30 hrs.
  Energy and human activities. Energy resources and reserves. Energy, development and environment. Future energy alternatives (energy efficiency and renewable energy). Oil, biomass, hydro, wind, solar, nuclear, waste, among others. Regulatory aspects. Energy transition and socio-environmental impacts.

• Epidemiology – 30 hrs.
  Concept of Epidemiology; Objectives and utilities of Epidemiology; Epidemiological Method; Historical Aspects of Epidemiology; Concept of health and disease; Natural history of diseases, Health Indicators; Indicators based on morbidity, frequency measures (Incidence and Prevalence); Indices related to health; Indicators based on mortality; Epidemiology applied in everyday life.

• Evidence-Based Health Care – 30 hrs.
  Evidence-Based Health Care: methodological concepts. Types and design of research. Study and critical analysis of scientific literature. Scientific evidence on evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy. Integration between clinical research and applicability of evidence in clinical practice.

• Federalism and Local Government – 30 hrs.
  State reform and decentralization, the federative pact and the roles of subnational entities, the implementation and coordination of public policies for regional development. Challenges of implementation and coordination of federal policies focused on states and municipalities. Imbalances in federalism. Planning, management, governance and local governability: local policies and innovative models. Participation in Brazil: institutional arrangements and social actors. Deliberative forums: public policy councils, participatory budgets and master plans. The meaning of social control policy and accountability in direct articulation with instances of popular participation: municipal councils and popular councils. The role of official control instruments: Audit Courts and Public Prosecutor’s Office.

• Industrial and Business Economics – 30 hrs.
  Characterization of the objects of study (industry and business) and their historical evolution. The structure, conduct and performance model. Structural analysis of markets. Oligopoly competition models. Business strategies.  Theoretical approaches to the company. The growth of the company. Sources of information about the Brazilian industry and company.

• Introduction to Geoprocessing – 30 hrs.
  Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Spatial data and its sources. Data structure: vector and matrix model. Spatial data manipulation. Spatial query and analysis. Mapping by computer. Use of the free tool QGIS. Image acquisition. Visual analysis of images.

• Labor and Employment in Brazil – 30 hrs.
  Productive and technological restructuring. Fordism, Post-Fordism, and flexible accumulation. The contemporary business logic. Flexibilization and precariousness of working conditions and relations. Informal work and the service sector. The advent of financial capitalism in Brazil. Labor and social classes in contemporary Brazil.

• Multicriteria Decision Making – 30 hrs.
  Basic concepts of multicriteria decisions. Decision situation. Decisions under certainty, risk, and uncertainty. Decisions under multiple criteria. AHP hierarchical analysis method. Decision tree. Borda method. Decision about the choice of representatives. Case study with application of multicriteria methods.

• Oil and Development – 30 hrs.
  What the oil industry is: technical and economic characteristics of the oil and gas industry; geopolitical overview. Oil in Brazil. The recent development process of the North Region of Rio de Janeiro State. Oil and regional space: the interactions between the Oil and Port Complexes in the North Region and their urban, economic, social, and political impacts, seen from the perspective of the articulation of scales; the distribution of oil revenues and their impacts on regional development. The Post-2014 Crisis and the perspectives of the oil industry in the North Region.

• Planning and development in Latin American thought – 30 hrs.
  Latin American historical structuralism. State, macroeconomic policy and development strategies. Productive, occupational, and social structures. Process of industrialization and regional expansion. Dependency school. Center-periphery relations in globalization. Differentiated diffusion of technical progress. The role of geopolitics and geo-economics in the Latin American scenario. Neo-structuralism, neo-extractivism, global networks and the new regional agenda (macroeconomics, finance, productive development, international trade, social development, and sustainability).

• Project Elaboration and Analysis – 30 hrs.
  Main types of socioeconomic intervention projects. Relevant aspects in the elaboration and evaluation. Participative techniques. Research projects: elaboration and development. Project evaluation: private and social perspectives. Evaluation of externalities of large economic projects on the environment.

• Public Health Management – 30 hrs.
  What public health is. Brazilian legislation and organizational structure of health care. Guidelines of the main programs in use: primary care as a key entry point to the Unified Health System. Ethics and rights in health. Planning, organization, monitoring, and evaluation of health actions in the municipality.

• Quality in Services – 30 hrs.
  Questionnaire Development. Calculation of Ideal Sample. Reliability Analysis (Cronbach’s alpha coefficient), Form of Tabulation, Analysis and Presentation of Results. Methods for Critical Points Evaluation.

• Special Topics in Decision-Making Support – 30 hrs.
  Statistical process control, related to the variability among the units produced in the process. Control charts of variables using mean (x bar), range (R), deviation (S), and sigma; and of attributes (p, np, c, and u). Interpretation of control charts. Process capability. Other control charts (CUSUM and EWMA). Reproducibility and repeatability in measurement systems. Single and double sampling of attributes. Reliability in the inspection process. Operating characteristics curves.

• Special Topics in Public Policy – 30 hrs.
  Introduction to the study of public policy. Key concepts: public policy, public and private, public and state, public and government. Types of public policy. The welfare state, the formation of modern citizenship, and the development of democracy. The formation of the Public Agenda. The issue of decision and non-decision. Decision models and the role of political actors: parliaments, political parties, interest groups, institutional structures, and the media. Implementation and evaluation of public policies. Public policies in Education, Health and Housing.

• Statistics Applied to Planning – 30 hrs.
  The discipline Applied Statistics provides the basis for understanding databases, offering conditions for expressing the set of data through descriptive statistics, besides enabling statistical inferences about the population from samples. Statistics is approached as a tool that may assist in decision making and in the argumentation of conclusions.

• Statistics Applied to Planning II – 30 hrs.
  Analysis of experiments in Completely Randomized Design and Randomized Blocks. Other experimental designs (Latin Squares; Factorial). Correlation analysis. Regression analysis methods: simple linear, multiple linear, and polynomial regression.

• Technological Innovation Management – 30 hrs.
  Science, technology and innovation: fundamental aspects; Innovation, economy, and sustainable development; Technological innovation management in the environment; Organizational and technological strategies; Management of indicators and conditioning factors of technological innovations; Industrial property and open innovation; Research and innovation in small and medium-sized companies, management of incubated companies and social technologies; Research and development in Brazil; Innovation and Public Administration. Management of fiscal incentives and fundraising: Legal frameworks for technological innovation.

• Urban Economic Activities and their Legal Protection – 30 hrs.
  Real estate development, civil construction and conflicts in the use of urban space. Port activity and cities. Legal protection of oil production, its urban impacts and mitigation measures. Urban landscape and its legal protection. Limitations on the use of property. Measures and mitigation and adaptation. Solid waste and basic sanitation. Urban waste. Types of treatment and its legal protection. Municipality and the responsibility for garbage.

• Urban Management – 30 hrs.
  What is urban management? Different approaches to sustainability (environmental, social, and economic). Urban environmental problems. Aspects of sustainability in different city sizes. Technological tools for urban management (smart cities). Urban sustainability indicators.

• Urban Management Instruments – 30 hrs.
  Urban Planning and Management. Strategies, concepts and definitions: Description of the territory; Characterization of the Population; Housing Deficit and Needs for renovations and expansions. International and national experience in planning. Instruments that induce municipal development: Real Estate Market; Tourism; Industry; Commerce and Agriculture and Farming. Real Estate Market and Land Policy. Sectoral Policy: Environment; Historic Preservation; Transportation; Infrastructure; Housing and Specialized Sectors. Land regularization: available instruments and ZEIS (abbreviation in Portuguese). Slum Urbanization. National Housing Plan. Municipal Housing Plans. Origins of democratic participation. Participatory Budgeting. Councils. Conferences. Public Hearings. Community Agents. Participatory Master Plan.