PPLSA - Languages and Knowledges in Amazon Graduate Program

1. Mandatory Disciplines

Theories of Language (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The objective of the course is to present and discuss aspects of the concept of language (verbal and non-verbal) and their correlations with the social sciences and history. Therefore, based on the consideration of the origin, nature and taxonomy of language, we will establish approximations between it and culture and thought, in order to discuss reciprocal dependence. The theoretical debate aims to create tools for a reflection on language and its nuances and for a better analysis of discourses and their languages in the construction of ethos and societies.

Theories of Knowledge (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The objective of the course is to deal with the fundamental problems of the theory of knowledge, from the point of view of Rationalism, Empiricism and Criticism. The central reference in the entire discussion will be the relationship between knowledge, language and truth, relativizing the current notions of objectivity, subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Concepts will be applied to the study of realities, bringing together the debate between knowledge and reality, from the point of view of realism and idealism. The modern gnosiological and methodological paradigms of scientific rationality will be questioned, associating them with the? Paradigms? emerging.

2. Elective Disciplines

Line: Education, Languages and Cultures in the Amazon

Curriculum, Teacher Training and Sociocultural Diversity in the Amazon (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Epistemological approaches to curriculum and popular education; curriculum policies and their implications for school curricula; curriculum and socio-cultural diversity; the related pedagogical practice in Amazonian territorialities

Education in Rural Territories, traditional knowledge and diversity in the Amazon (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Discipline focuses on socio-Amazonian diversity based on its subjects, territories and territorialities, with emphasis on the struggles and mobilizations of emancipatory, dialogical and intercultural educational processes that recognize the subjectivities of traditional peoples as relevant to the sustainable development of the Amazon; Analyze the relationships between subjects, territories and territorialities in the construction of identities and subjectivities; Understand the relationships between Amazonian cultures and educational practices; Provide students with spaces for socializing territorialities and educational practices that constitute Amazonian subjects.

Migration contexts and Linguistic Contact (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The study of immigrants makes us question a phenomenon of great complexity for today's society: migration. This involves a plurality of interpretations regarding identity, territory, colonialism, nationalism, culture, globalization, modernity and postmodernity. Its representation in contemporary narrative is fundamental today

Local History and Oral Sources (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Regional history and local history and oral reports and the relationship between memory and history in the development of interdisciplinary projects inserted in what we call the History of the Present Time. Written, visual and oral sources. Quantitative and qualitative research methods. Research techniques and the use, transcription, storage and editing of different sources and the ethical relationship between the researcher and his sources.

Identity, Gender and Translation (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Standardizing and essentialist models. Myth, Literature and History in the traditional and contemporary perspectives. The social imaginary. Epistemological criticism. Textual interface of the Imaginary in Latin and Greek readings. Ancient religious and cultural reminiscences today. Uses of the past.

Line: Narratives and Images in the Amazon

Alterity and Wonderful Narrative (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: The concept of otherness. Alterity in literary and psychoanalytic studies. The wonderful tale and the narratives of the unusual. Theories of the fantastic, wonderful and strange genre. The unusual Freudian.

Language Through Image (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Theoretical / methodological matrices of critical education, considering the scientific, technological, cultural and local knowledge of rural populations, which influenced and influence educational thoughts and practices in Brazil and in the Amazon of Pará, as well as the instituted and instituting interfaces under its implications.

Cartography of the North Coast extractive communities (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Knowledge: Scientific and Traditional; Traditional peoples: Concept and characterization; Identity and territory; Relationship with the environment; The peoples of the Amazon; Extractivists from the North coast (Extractivists from mangroves, coastal plain and Campos Bragantinos); Intercultural education in the Amazon context; Gender relations; Management and use of natural resources; Resex

Cultural pedagogy and subjectivation processes (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: This course presents and discusses Cultural Pedagogy, its effects and the production of subjects through different artifacts

Migration Narratives (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Studies on immigrants make us problematize a phenomenon of great complexity for today's society: immigration. This involves a plurality of interpretations regarding identity, territory, nationalism, community, modernity and culture. Its representation in the contemporary narrative is fundamental today. Thus, we intend to think about this phenomenon in two moments: the first will contemplate the importance of immigrant narratives linked to Oral history studies, as well as understand the collection of these narratives and their data construction process, the second moment will seek to interpret Brazilian narratives contemporary themes that bring the theme of immigration to the literary field, as well as understand the universe of this character who lives fiction linked to the theme of migration.

Classic and Contemporary Ethnographic Perspectives (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: Classical and contemporary ethnography in debate. Ethnographic authority and the construction of research work. The research field and the ethnographic experience. Experiences of ethnographic studies in Brazil and the Amazon.

Facts and Fiction (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Syllabus: At a certain historical moment, language “imposes itself as Literature”, says R. Barthes (2000: 3s), i.e., the organization of “Written signs places Literature as an institution”. It assumes an independence from general history and founds its own history. Our proposal does not lie on historical or historiographical issues already established, but on “facticity and fictionality”, i.e., on the different ways of noting, describing and transmitting facts, events and narratives in the relationship between texts and the world. The main objective is to know how (historical) facts become textual facts that, dialectically, create and reiterate historical facts through narration and reception and, thus, configure the representation and interpretation of the world. Thus, the discipline aims to subsidize students in the elaboration of projects that presuppose the knowledge of the origin and institutionalized development of literature (Universities and market) and the connection between the historicity of the works and their reading (referentiality) in view of the text (gender and type of text). The methodological analysis of the understanding of the work / text whose objective results not only in seeing the text in its time and in its historical conditions, but also in recognizing the receiver in its subjectivity: its interests in and in reading, including its historical and the context of the debate. In this sense, the location of the reception becomes important, i.e., the reception competence of the reader and his time and, in fact, it is because of this competence that the interpretation of the text is completed (Literary Hermeneutics). The theoretical-methodological basis is thus worked out, so that the questions can extend to the current theoretical debate, between “facts” and “fictions”, exemplified, mainly, by authors, texts and historical and cultural contexts of the Amazon region.

Line: Health and Sociobiodiversity in the Amazon

Socioeconomics in Traditional Communities in the Amazon

Syllabus: Importance of natural capital for traditional communities. Historical, economic and social formation in the Amazon. Socioeconomic base and natural resources and productive activities. Ecosystem and socio-environmental services.

3. Thematic Topics (4 Credit Units - 60 Credit Hours)

Thematic topics are random and variable offers, organized by professors with a thematic focus, in accordance with each line of research

4. Dissertation Seminars (2 Credit Units - 30 Credit Hours)

Seminars are directed to the interdisciplinary approach, being directed to theoretical-methodological discussions and dialogues with research projects.