Brazil 2010

Begins: 1 Jun 2010
Ends: 31 Jul 2010
Supervisor: Peter Lucas
Language Requirement: Portuguese (Intermediate-High proficiency). Students are encouraged to audit Fall and Spring Portuguese classes. Proficiency tests will be given in April.
Required course: Human Rights and Media
Concentrations: Media and Culture, Governance and Rights, Cities and Urbanization, Conflict and Security, Development

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Program Description: 

The Rio summer program, in close collaboration with Pontifica Universidade Catolica and Viva Rio, one of the leading NGOs in the city, offers the possibility of studying the human rights and media in practice.

Human Rights Themes Include:

  • Children's rights
  • Human Security
  • Street Children
  • Women's human rights
  • HIV harm reduction and human rights,
  • violence and public safety
  • youth media development

Media Practices include:

  • digital and visual inclusion projects
  • documentary film production, photojournalism
  • web design and building web content
  • human rights education curriculum
  • community journalism and radio
  • youth media projects

Potential Internships:  

The program will place students with various NGOs to conduct research,and to design and implement media projects. Potential internship organizations include:

Promundo: Youth and Children
Sao Martinho: Street Children

CRIAR: Community Radio
Viva Favela: Community Journalism, Visual Inclusion, Photojournalism, Human Rights
Observatorio de FaVELA: Photography/Youth Media

Viva Rio: Peace Campaigns, Human Rights, Public Safety, Human Security
Solar Meninos de Luz: Youth Media/Photography
Comitê para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI): Digital Inclusion/Youth Media
Cinema Nossa: Youth Media/Film Production
Spetaculo: Youth Media
Morrinho: Youth Media
Center for Human Rights at Catholic Univ: Human Rights Research

The internships are complemented with site visits to community-based human rights organizations, presentations by human rights and media scholars, and exhibitions/film screenings. The course is designed to introduce a wide range of initiatives to present a holistic experience of human rights and media practice.