The Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) of USP offers, from the 6th of February, its Summer Courses, with more than 4 thousand vacancies. The initiative has 52 online courses and aims to offer new training and learning opportunities. Anyone over 18 years of age can enroll through the USP Apolo System .

Part of the courses presents issues of gender, race and social inclusion, such as blackness in Brazilian and North American social thought, the literary production of enslaved people, a historical overview of feminisms, reproductive rights in Latin America, ethno-religious violence and the transformations political, cultural and economic areas of the peripheries, among others.

The program is divided into thematic areas. Check out the courses available at the links below:

Philosophical, historical
and geographical studiesLinguistic
and literary studiesAnthropology, politics
and society studies
The courses, their registration dates and vacancies are also separated by groups. Registration for Group 1 begins today (26th) and runs until February 27th. Among the courses provided in Group 1 are:

Everyday life as a geographical analysis of the lived experience
The Posthumous Life of Slavery: Blackness and Anti-Blackness in Brazilian and North American Black Perspectives
Anna Karenina and the feminine question
Visual culture in the People’s Republic of China (1949-1978)
Introduction to Kant’s Practical Philosophy , Intersectional readings on the outskirts of the city of São Paulo
Love in Clarice Lispector
The antifeminisms of yesterday and today
Current panorama of reproductive rights in Latin America
What nation is this? The construction of Puerto Rico’s identity through his essays
Shakespeare: stage and politics
Simone de Beauvoir: far beyond The Second Sex.
Registration for Group 2 begins this Saturday (28th) and runs until February 29th. The course topics of this group are:

Sharpness, ingenuity and discretion: an introduction to Baltasar’s work
Creativity and creation – workshop: the praxis of artistic production
Uprooting anthropocentrism: Kant, Schelling and Nietzsche
Elections and Democracy
Female figures in the narratives of Jorge Amado, Aluísio Azevedo and Carolina Maria de Jesus
Culture war and fascism in contemporary Brazil
Multiliteracies and review of pedagogical practices in the post-pandemic
Marxism and the critique of science
Language teaching in Brazil: language policies and network actions in the national territory
Middle East: ethnoreligious violence and post-conflict democracies
Shakespeare in Modern British Theater
On the relationship between values ​​and science
Yoga, Vedanta and Asceticism: Cultural Aspects of Neo-Hinduism.
Group 3 will have registration open for only two days: January 30th and 31st. The courses offered in this group are:

Twentieth-century Portuguese literature: from neorealism to post-Carnation Revolution manifestations
The other part of the continent: the colonial texts of the Rio de la Plata
Between philosophy and literature: the eighteenth-century novel
Science fiction and social criticism: where are the women?
Philology and diplomacy: case studies based on letters and requests from and about women
Introduction to Roman Folk Magic: Amulets, Curses, and Oracles
Literature and informative garbage: the author as manipulator
The Northeast and the Brazilian social formation
Writing workshop: prose in the post-autonomy era
Medieval Pauliceia: medieval art and revivalism in the city of São Paulo
Character, author and reader: frontiers in question
Can the enslaved speak? The Literature of Enslaved People in the United States of America
Who’s Afraid of Plínio Marcos? – dramaturgies, marginality and popular culture
Transmediation of folk tales in Korean picture book.
Finally, Group 4 will open enrollment from the 1st to the 2nd of February, with the following courses:

The translation of cultural references in tourist texts
Syntactic complexity: sociofunctionalist approaches
Feminine dehumanization and sensationalism: the case of Sylvia Serafim
War in Ukraine: the historical and geopolitical processes of the conflict
Guided reading of Grande Sertão: Veredas
Metaphysics of literature: the sensitive of the insensitive word according to Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière
Fashion and cinema at the end of the 20th century
Neoliberalism and Hollywood
The Spiritual Core Underpinning Russian Theater: Mikhail Chekhov
The government of distances in modernity: dialogues between History and Geography
Step by step for the elaboration of French didactic material for university purposes
Producing ethnography: methods, techniques and anthropological particularities
Unfamiliar Dreams of an Exiled Poet .

In its second edition, the FFLCH Summer Courses are offered by the College’s Culture and Extension Commission. These are short-term courses, which will be offered in the first weeks of February. Spaces are limited. After completing the registration, the interested person must wait for the draw and contact the ministers by email. All those approved, with a minimum attendance of 75%, will receive certificates.