Complex thinking and organizing principles of knowledge. Paradigm (s) and the production of research and knowledge. Research in human and social sciences. The forms of knowledge and the scientific method. Scientific research and its classifications: research typologies. Academic processes in the Graduate: individual study, reading, writing. Academic-scientific works: memorial, articles, essays, reports, abstracts. Formalization of scientific research: phases and stages of projects and reports. Technical standards for the preparation and presentation of research: projects, articles, theses. The question of ethics in research.

Premodern theoretical propositions on the origins of human rights. Humanistic Jusnaturalism and the Modern Bases of Human Rights. National State and Human Rights. Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights and the problem of its historicity. Universality and particularism of Human Rights. Identity and recognition in contemporary society. Interculturality and human rights. Human rights in Latin America and Brazil. Human rights and minorities. Decolonial thinking and human rights. Human rights and non-Western cultures.

State and power: the specificity of the state phenomenon. The process of state formation. The State and the concept of sovereignty: internal dominion and external independence. The State and the Right: constitution, division of powers and fundamental rights. State, decentralization of power and autonomy. State, democracy and law: the rule of law. Democracy, human rights and political pluralism. The decline of the state and the future of democracy.

Biopolitics and the Critique of Human Rights in Hannah Arendt. Michel Foucault: from disciplinary society to biopower society. Giorgio Agamben and the resumption of the concept of biopolitics as a key to understanding contemporary society and the systematic violation of Human Rights. State of exception and the field as paradigms of contemporary politics. Biopolitics and the immune paradigm of Roberto Esposito. The biopolitical resistance in Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt.

Identity and recognition in contemporary society. National identity, globalization and local cultures. Human rights and minorities. Multiculturalism, interculturality and human rights. The debate between liberals and communitarians on recognition. Human rights, sexuality and gender issues. Body, recognition and identity. The indigenist struggles in the Brazilian and Latin American scene. Human Rights and the Black Question in Brazil. People with disabilities and inclusion. Religious diversity and Human rights. Immigrants, refugees and cosmopolitanism. Affirmative action policies in Brazil and comparative law. Redistribution or recognition?

Typology of theories of deviant behavior and the crisis of legal-penal discourse. Political and ideological elements of penitentiary systems. Criminal systems and social exclusion. The culture of behavioral control. Social control and dangerous classes: who was and who are the enemies of the penal systems? State systems of criminal prosecution and human rights in Latin America. The human rights of victims. Retributive criminal justice, restorative criminal justice and criminal justice. The future of social control policies and the responses to delegitimisation and crisis.

The formation of the Brazilian State. The construction of civil society in Brazil. State, civil society and citizenship: a different form of configuration. The emergence of social movements and the fight against inequalities. The new configurations of civil society and the alternatives of social inclusion: classic struggles and forms of self-organization. Modern Brazilian society, public policies and the configuration of society in networks.

Gender theories and their relation to the study of power, democracy, the State, and public policies. Gender as a construction of Feminism. Feminist theories. Intersectionality: race, class, generation. Body, gender and sexuality: bio-psycho-historical and social aspects. Gender, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Human Rights of Women. Gender Equality and Human Rights.

Studies on the theoretical and methodological unfolding of memory in contemporary society. Social memory, collective and individual as an instrument of identity elaboration. The memory linked to the processes of forgetting the rights of different social groups in Brazilian society. Elaboration of schemes - concepts of notions of places of memory and social identity in the - for the visualization of the human rights of the different groups that compose the current society.

Human development and social inequality, Social Transformations and implications for human development; Systemic Constructivism, New Technologies and Human Rights; Observation, Communication and Decision on Human Rights; Resilience of Law, Change Management and Human Development; Empirical Research, Transdisciplinarity and Learning for Human Rights; Evolution of the Law from a systemic perspective; Trust, Organization and Decision and in favor of Human Rights.

From the origin of cities to urban society. Right to the city. Territory, urban reform and citizenship. Social inequalities in the 21st century. Human rights to sustainable cities. Sustainability in the context of Latin American cities.

The Right to the Environment ecologically balanced as Fundamental Law. The legal protection of the environment and sustainability. Environmental Knowledge, Environmental Education and the consumer society. Climate change, environmental crisis and globalization. Socio-environmental responsibility, the green economy and the right to ecologically balanced development. Policies and instruments of protection / local, national and international environmental management. Socio-environmentalism, traditional communities, biopiracy and biodiversity. Human rights, citizenship and fight for Environmental Justice.

Globalization: economy, law and democracy. The dangers of the global order: sovereignty and citizenship. Globalization and the emptiness of international public law. The deregulated powers of the market. Capitalism: between liberalism and neoliberalism. Neoliberal economic regulation. The guarantee of democracy in the age of globalization. The rule of law in the crisis of political democracy. The rule of law in the crisis of civil democracy. The rule of law and violations of the rights of freedom. The rule of law and violations of social rights. The dimensions of international democracy: for a global public sphere.

History, concept and social and legal evolution of public policies, health, and bioethics, as well as their respective methods of analysis in the context of the debate on the Contemporary State and its transformations. Public policies, health and complex dialogues with bioethics, based on interrelationships between State, civil society, and private sector. The paradox of health legislation after 1988 as a citizen's right and the duty of the State.

Information Society, culture and human rights. The Right to Information and Communication. Media, citizenship and human rights. Flows of information, new technologies and new media. Media languages, culture and human rights. Cultural frontiers and human rights. Cultural Mediations. Education in Human Rights.

Specific contents to be given according to the needs and emerging demands (current aspects of human rights), with a Teaching Plan approved by the Program Collegiate.

Development of teaching activities in the undergraduate course in Law and related areas. It is a compulsory course for all Master's students who hold a CAPES scholarship.

Development of a set of activities abroad, provided that it is authorized by the Program Collegiate, through the presentation of a work plan and the acceptance of a foreign teacher, under the coordination of the tutor in the Master Course. The minimum period of internship abroad is 30 days.

Teaching today: theoretical-methodological challenges. Learning: from a dual behavioral perspective to cognitive, interactionist and constructivist propositions. University teaching: conceptualization about the components of a school education process. Planning: pedagogical project, program plan and class.

It is intended to carry out the research and the preparation of the Master thesis itself, and the defense before the examining bank.

It is intended to carry out the research, including individual activities (Guidelines), for the conclusion and defense of the master thesis project.

Planning and Master thesis project. Definition of the study topic. Elaboration of the objectives and justification of the research. Construction of the theoretical framework of reference. Description of methodological procedures. Schedule of execution of activities. Defense of the Master thesis project. Structuring the thesis. Preparation of thesis defense.