Curricular structure

COMPONENTS

CH

CR.

AMENDMENT

O,E,OL

Comparative Development Theories and Experiences

60h

4

Comparative study of classical and modern development theories from an interdisciplinary perspective. The theory of Latin American underdevelopment. The role of the State, the market and social organizations in development. Local and regional development. Comparative analysis of experiences and models of capitalist and socialist development: Brazil, Japan, South Korea, China and Russia.

Mandatory

Scientific research methodology

60h

4

Conceptions of science and construction of interdisciplinarity. Methodology and methods of scientific research. Search types. Elaboration of scientific works.

Mandatory

Seminars on Development and Public Policies

60h

4

Special topics in development and public policies in an interdisciplinary view.

Mandatory

Culture, Politics and Development

45h

3

The reciprocity of influences between culture and development. Culture in different theoretical conceptions of development. The influence of culture on development. Development and political culture.

Optional

Status, Development and Public Policies in Brazil

45h

3

Status and Development. State and Public Policies in the early days of Brazilian industrialization. Developmentalism in Brazil. Neoliberal ideology and the Brazilian State. The new developmentalism.

Optional

Educating cities, new sociability and eco-training

45h

3

Social analysis of the educational phenomenon, its models and conceptions, from the changes in the forms of appropriation of public spaces and sociability in cities. Identification of problems arising from socio-spatial segregation for the construction of educational environments and formation of municipal councils. Case study on expanding learning opportunities in cities and opening the frontiers of knowledge, based on the centrality of five analytical categories: generation, ethnicity, gender and work. The role of the State in the formulation of public policies, from the perspective of promoting collective educational processes and practices of housing, promoting and managing new ways of existing and living together.

Optional

Regional Development and Public Policies

45h

3

The emergence of reflection on regional development in the context of the expansion of capitalism in the late nineteenth century: English industrial districts and unequal capitalism. Theories of regional development in the context of the affirmation of capitalism and socialism: the theory of modernization, the poles of growth, the theory of circular and cumulative causation, and cepal thought. The crisis of capitalism and socialism and the new approaches to regional development and the role of public policies: endogenous development, local productive systems, technological districts, technopolies, innovative media, social capital theory, alternative forms employment and income generation, the relationship between agriculture and local development, and alternative forms of employment and income generation

Optional

State, Law and Development in Brazil

45h

3

Democratic State of Law and Development. Constitutional guarantees of fundamental rights and democratic institutions. Relations between the powers in Brazil and development projects. Judicial control and judicialization of social conflicts in Brazil.

Optional

Planning and Management Strategy in Development

45h

3

The decision making process for strategic management. Fundamentals and methods of strategic planning. The role of public and private sectors and civil society in planning and development. Critical analysis of development projects.

Optional

Quantitative methods in development research

45h

3

Introductory aspects of quantitative research. Main quantitative research techniques for development and public policies analysis. Probabilistic sampling. Relationship analysis between variables by bivariate and multivariate methods. Indicators.

Optional

Qualitative methods in development research

45h

3

Qualitative methods applied to research under development. Main qualitative research techniques. Research modalities in the qualitative approach. Sampling. Data collection, analysis and interpretation. Ethics in qualitative research.

Optional

Social technology and public policies for development

45h

3

Technology and social innovation; Solidarity economy; Public policies; Sustainable development; Sustainable consumption; Cooperativism; Local development; Sociocultural dynamics of development and experiences in social technologies; Public policies for the third sector.

Optional

Analysis of local development situations

45h

3

Theoretical foundations: complexity theory and critical realism. Methodological foundations: the theory of evidence. Procedures for analyzing local development situations. Development of local development strategies.

Optional