Know the elective subjects

Open University Unit, Languages ​​and Faculties Unit

Emotional connection in couples

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Subject code: OPP015

This elective course seeks to address emotional bonds and their development throughout the life cycle, exploring the psychological factors that influence the choice and formation of a partner. In addition, it will offer strategies to develop skills that promote healthy coexistence within a relationship.

Hours of choice

Monday 11:00-13:00

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2 credits

emotional management

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Subject code: OPP001

This subject aims to provide students with knowledge about techniques that allow them to adequately manage their emotions and adapt to the emotions of others in interpersonal relationships.

Hours of choice

Thursday 11:00-13:00

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2 credits

Mindfulness skills

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Subject code: OPP011

This course is aimed at students who are interested in learning and applying mindfulness in everyday life, in order to improve their emotional well-being, concentration and academic performance. By intentionally directing attention to the present moment, we can experience degrees of freedom from our psychology. In this elective, we will learn techniques that gradually free us from conditioning and beliefs linked to our past, as well as expectations about the future. With practice, we can have a direct experience of the NOW, opening up infinite opportunities to live fully moment by moment.

Hours of choice

Wednesday 11:00-13:00

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2 credits

Childhood Wounds: Healing Your Inner Self

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Subject code: OPP016

In this course, you will take a transformative journey that will allow you to understand how the voice of your inner child defines the adult you are today. You will be able to return to your own childhood, analyze your family history, the forms of communication, behavioral patterns, value systems, invisible loyalties, and transgenerational repetitions you experienced during your early years. Through personal analysis and reflection, you will be able to identify and accept the emotional imprints of childhood, undergo a process of personal reconstruction, and transform your lived experiences into strengths that sustain you and guide you toward personal development and self-realization.

Hours of choice

Saturday 09:00-11:00

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2 credits

Applied positive psychology

Faculty: Faculty of Psychology

Subject code: OPP008

Positive Psychology is an approach that has focused on issues of human potential and positive aspects of people. It states that it is important for science to promote the understanding of happiness, forgiveness, humor, gratitude, resilience, among many other aspects that are relevant to the fulfillment and realization of the human being. This subject aims for students to be aware of their internal strengths as human beings, recognize their positive states, in order to lead a life of greater harmony and well-being with themselves and with others.

Hours of choice

Monday 18:00-20:00

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2 credits