Curricular Structure

CURRICULAR STRUCTURE

The Postgraduate Program in Geography at FURG is structured into mandatory and elective subjects, Qualification Exam and preparation and public defense of a Dissertation. To complete the master's degree, students must complete at least 24 credits in (elective) subjects, in addition to the mandatory subject of Supervision and Preparation of the Master's Dissertation (6 credits), totaling 30 credits. The 24 credits, according to the Program's regulations, must be completed in the first 18 months of the course, at which point the student will take the qualifying exam. The subject of Oriented Teaching is mandatory for Social Demand - CAPES scholarship holders.

I) MANDATORY SUBJECT:

GUIDANCE AND PREPARATION OF MASTER'S DISSERTATION

Responsible: Collegiate
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Mandatory
Workload: 90 hours/class (45 hours/class of guided work and 45 hours/class of dissertation preparation – Internal Regulations/CAPES
Credits: 06
Code: 10129P

Syllabus: Preparation of the master's thesis in Geography considering the stages of scientific research.

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MASTER'S DISSERTATION SEMINAR

Responsible: Collegiate
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Mandatory
Workload: 60 hours/class (60 hours/class of guided work)
Credits: 04
Code: 10173P
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II) MANDATORY DISCIPLINE FOR CAPES SOCIAL DEMAND SCHOLARSHIPS

TEACHING INTERNSHIP

Responsible: Collegiate
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional (Note: The Teaching Internship subject is mandatory only for Master's scholarship holders – Internal Regulations/CAPES).
Workload: 30 hours/class
Credits: 02
Code: 10128P

Syllabus: Undergraduate teaching practice related to the research theme in the master's degree.

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III) OPTIONAL DISCIPLINES:

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND PLANNING

Responsible: Dr. Simone Emiko Sato
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Course load: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10163P

Syllabus: General systems theory applied to Geography, natural systems and environmental systems and its implications for geographic studies. Relevance of systemic analysis for the development of environmental planning instruments for coastal areas.

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METHODOLOGICAL BASIS FOR RESEARCH IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Responsible: Dr. Cristiano Quaresma de Paula; Dr. Juliana Cristina Franz; Mercedes Solá Pérez
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Course load: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10131P

Syllabus: The construction of knowledge; categories and concepts; research in Human Geography; the stages of research production; definition of the problem, objectives and justification; preparation and use of research instruments; field research; methodologies and qualitative techniques in Human Geography.

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GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS

Responsible: Cristiano Quaresma de Paula, Maiara Tavares Sodré

Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10133P
Syllabus: Categories and concepts for understanding the Planet and the World. The dialogues between Geography and Natural Sciences and Human Sciences. The trajectories of categories and concepts in Geography. Recent trends and dialogues between Geography and other fields of knowledge.

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GEOGRAPHY OF BRAZILIAN AGRICULTURE

Responsible: Dr. Jussara Mantelli
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Course load: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10135P

Syllabus: Agriculture and its relationships with physical-natural conditions, throughout the process of social, economic, cultural and political development of society. Emphasis is given to aspects of production, land structure, conflicts and contradictions, which are present in the expansion of Brazilian agrarian capitalism.

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WORK GEOGRAPHY AND GENDER RELATIONS

Responsible:
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10137P

Syllabus: The Geography of work with an emphasis on gender relations. Work concepts. Economic restructuring and the role of work in the territory. Social relations: labor movements, feminists, gender and sexual division of labor. New ways of working. Work and employment in the port and fishing sectors.

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GEOGRAPHY AND ARTISAN FISHING

Responsible: Dr. Cristiano Quaresma de Paula
Capacity: ICHI
Character: Optional
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04

Code: 10235P

Syllabus: Theoretical and methodological proposals from Geography allow us to understand artisanal fishing based on relationships of conflict, belonging, and production. Critical social reading inserts territorial resistance in the face of territorial modernization into geographical research, which denies the communities' places of belonging, and results in social conflicts and environmental impacts, impacting the productive organization of fishing.

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COASTAL GEOGRAPHY

Responsible: Dr. Ulisses Rocha

Capacity: Ichi
Character: Optional
Workload: 60h
Credits: 4
Code: 10198P

Syllabus: Coastal Barriers, beaches, coastal dunes, hydrographic and anthropocene network of the Coastal Zone of Rio Grande do Sul and underlying areas.

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METROPOLIZATION AND URBAN DYNAMICS

Responsible: Dr. Paulo Roberto Rodrigues Soares

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Course load: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Capacity: ICHI

Code: 10139P

Syllabus: The metropolization process and its impacts on urban-regional dynamics. The processes of metropolitan concentration and deconcentration and their consequences in intra- and inter-urban spaces, as well as in the restructuring of the urban network. New forms of spatial concentration in metropolitan and non-metropolitan territories.

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PUBLIC POLICIES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND AGRICULTURE

Responsible: Dr. Jussara Mantelli

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10140P

Syllabus: Brazil's agrarian problems, analyzed from the perspective of the colonization process and Agrarian Reform, emphasizing the role of social movements in the reorganization of agrarian space and in the forms of reproduction of productive dynamics, Public policies aimed at rural areas.

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PRODUCTION OF URBAN SPACE

Responsible: Dr. Solismar Fraga Martins

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 60 hours/class

Credits: 04

Code: 10141P

Syllabus: Analysis of urban space as a result of social, economic, political and cultural processes as a result of an unequal accumulation of historical times. The understanding of a specific socio-spatial formation focuses on the occupation of the Brazilian coastal region.

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SPECIAL TOPICS IN NATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10143P

Syllabus: Specific themes and courses with content related to the line of research Analysis of Natural and Environmental Systems

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SPECIAL TOPICS IN REGIONAL URBAN ANALYSIS

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10079P

Syllabus: Specific themes and courses with content related to the Regional Urban Analysis line of research.

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SPECIAL TOPICS I

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10145P

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SPECIAL TOPICS II

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10146P

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SPECIAL TOPICS III

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 30 hours/class

Credits: 02

Code: 10147P

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SPECIAL TOPICS IV

Responsible: Coordination

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Workload: 60 hours/class

Credits: 04

Code: 10148P

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CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN SOUTH AMERICA

Responsible: Dr. Eder Leandro Bayer Maier

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Course load: 60 hours/class

Credits: 04

Code: 10172P

Syllabus: Characterization of the main climatic variables on a monthly, seasonal, annual, interannual, interdecadal and intermillennial time scale. With an emphasis on the study of atmospheric heat and moisture transport mechanisms that originate climate classes and disturbances in the seasonal cycle of temperature and precipitation in South America.

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DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE: SOCIETY, CLIMATE AND SCIENCE

Responsible: Dr. Iván Ricardo Castro Diaz

Capacity: ICHI

Character: Optional

Course load: 60 hours/class

Credits: 04

Code: 10234P

Syllabus: Introduce concepts about global change as a result of social pressures for natural resources. Study the various factors that affect the resilience of natural systems and their continued balanced existence and the scientific-political responses to face this problem. Analyze the issue of global changes, in particular, the study and methodologies for determining the multi-temporal dynamics of the landscape, meteorological variables and urban heat islands.

 

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GEOTECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO THE MONITORING OF COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS
Responsible: Miguel da Guia Albuquerque
Capacity: ICHI
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10196P
Syllabus: Geotechnologies applied to coastal monitoring: GPS-RTK, LIDAR, drones, remote sensors, among others.
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SCIENTIFIC DISCLOSURE IN GEOGRAPHY I
Responsible:
Capacity: ICHI
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10239P
Syllabus: Guided preparation and publication of a scientific article that integrates results of the
postgraduate research in progress, therefore the student is the main author. Submission
and/or acceptance of the article in a journal qualified by CAPES in the upper extracts:
A or B, or equivalents.
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SCIENTIFIC DISCLOSURE IN GEOGRAPHY II
Responsible:
Capacity: ICHI
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10240P
Syllabus: Guided preparation of a scientific book chapter that integrates research results
postgraduate course in progress, so the student is the main author. The publication must be
carried out by a publisher with an editorial board and will be proven through
presentation of an acceptance letter or a copy of the published chapter.
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SCIENTIFIC DISCLOSURE IN GEOGRAPHY III
Responsible:
Capacity: ICHI
Workload: 60 hours/class
Credits: 04
Code: 10241P
Syllabus: Guided preparation of an article presented at a national or international event and published in
Annals with ISSN. The article must integrate results of ongoing postgraduate research,
Therefore, the student must be the main author. Submitted or published articles will also be accepted.
in a periodical qualified by CAPES in extract C, or without qualification. And book chapter
published in a scientific book without an editorial board.
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IDENTITY STUDIES AND CULTURAL MANIFESTATIONS IN SPACE
Responsible: Prof. Dr. Juliana Franz
Capacity: ICHI
Workload: 60 hours/class
credits:4
codes:10253P

Syllabus: Cultural Approach, more specifically in identity studies and cultural manifestations of space based on a geographical analysis that permeates different spaces, urban and rural. Thematic seminars on different cultural codes (language, religion, festivities, architecture, among others) in order to analyze them geographically in the context of coastal regions. Adjacent themes of understanding culture through space and in space.