Set of Subjects

The set of compulsory and optional subjects linked to the activities of the Master’s course aims to train, has formed, a high-level researcher to face, with other theoretical, critical, methodological and practical-laboratory instruments, the epistemological work involving our main object of research, which is language and literature, and their intersemiotic relationships (language and culture; language and image; language and polyphony; linguistic diversity; language and enunciation; literature and comics; literature and hypertext; Brazilian Portuguese and its literatures; languages, literatures and rights; glocalization of language and literature; literacies; languages ​​in the classroom, etc.), on the other hand, the set of compulsory and optional subjects articulated to the activities of the Doctoral course aims to deepen these studies and investigations, taking as object an archeology of the main epistemological event in our area, which was the discovery of the sign and the opening of the signifier, and map its repercussions on the human sciences and applied social sciences, aiming to describe and interpret meetings, debates and epistemic transvaluations, the formation and functioning of scientific systems, linguistic-literary institutions, as well as the meaning of innovation policies and the its place in the forms of struggle for the distribution of material and symbolic wealth.

When choosing the Postgraduate Program in Cultural Criticism, the candidate for a master’s and a doctorate degree in the field of linguistic and literary studies must be aware and mobilize their first searches and studies on the criticism of the field and other areas of structuralism; if you have graduated in courses in the area of ​​human sciences and applied social sciences, you should be aware and mobilize your first searches and studies on the main critics of your field of formation, in addition to the description of the place of language, languages, literature and culture in your memory academic. Thus, the offer of subjects, mandatory and/or optional, for the composition and curricular integration of the master’s and doctoral students, in the Cultural Criticism Program, is flexible and must respond to the demand for qualified training relevant to each line of research and having as the main criterion: the background and the need of each master’s or doctoral student. Example: Comparative Literature is configured as an optional subject of the Master’s course, with a workload of 45 hours, 03 credits, and of the research line Literature, Cultural Production and Ways of Life, but it may happen that a doctoral student, with training in area of ​​Letters or in similar areas, does not master and needs these studies, then, for this doctoral student, that discipline is elevated to the category of a discipline for the Doctoral course and, with that, aiming at the expected results for that level of studies .