Course catalog

There is a list of open courses available for any UDP doctoral student to take during 2023. The administrative procedure is as follows:

• The student informs the academic coordination (or the program director, as applicable) of their program about the course from another program they wish to
• The program’s academic committee evaluates the relevance of the student taking that
• Once the student’s request is approved, the coordination (or director) notifies the program that will accept the student for the course X via
• The hosting program enters the student’s information into They must enroll in the course as an elective, and change the grading method (otherwise, it will not appear in the student’s progression).

Download the catalog of available courses here.

The UDP has a Teaching Development area, under the Academic Vice-Rectorate, aimed at generating initiatives to strengthen the pedagogical skills of both undergraduate and postgraduate teachers at the University, contributing to the improvement of student learning outcomes.

Its main purpose is to support academic units and teachers in the development of quality teaching practices, promoting an understanding of teaching as a process of learning and continuous improvement, ensuring the reflective and critical use of various teaching resources. To achieve this, it establishes criteria for quality teaching through the Framework for Good Teaching and promotes the implementation of the Teaching Development Policy.

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This course seeks to provide learning opportunities for students to enhance their academic writing skills in English through practice.

The focus of the course lies in understanding the logic and structures behind writing, and exploring the possibilities of academic communication in English.

The program aims to consolidate more focused knowledge that enables self-editing of one’s own writing. It works on developing academic language to address technical aspects in various synchronous and asynchronous, individual and group modalities, to integrate knowledge that allows for writing fluent and coherent texts.

The course has been offered once a year since 2020. Its fourth edition is scheduled for November 2023.