DOCTORAL COURSE IN LETTERS: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
COMPULSORY SUBJECTS:
| Code | Name of subject | C/H | Credits |
| LEM400 | Amazonian Cultures, Languages and Societies. Syllabus: Language, culture and identity: conceptual reflections. Imaginary representations of the Amazon. Amazonian and Pan-Amazonian cultures, heritage, identities and societies. Linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Amazon. Amazonian arts and cultures. The land question in Amazonia and Pan-Amazonia: use, ownership, possession, conflicts; development models, biodiversity and sustainability. Nature and culture in the Amazon. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM410 | Discourses, Subjects and Identities Syllabus: Theories of enunciation. Theories of Discourse Analysis: its linguistic and historical object; subjectivity and otherness; production and circulation of meanings. Bakhtin's Circle and French DA. The post-structuralists. Theories of Deconstruction. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM420 | Linguistic theories Ementa: Fundamentos básicos dos estudos linguísticos. Relações entre filosofia e linguagem. | 60 | 4.0 |
ELECTIVE COURSES:
| Code | Name of subject | C/H | Credits |
| LEM200 | Culture, Education and Educational Practices Syllabus: Cultural studies and education. Cultural differences between subjects and educational practices. The poetics and politics of the curriculum text. Educational practices in the context of national regulation policies. The production of inequality. Teacher images and self-images. Subjects' relationship with knowledge. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM210 | Cultures and Literatures in the Pan-Amazon region Syllabus: Culture, literature, history and memory in the Amazon. Literatures, oral cultures and oral literature. Literary theories and comparatism. Transits and literary traditions in the Pan-Amazon: relations between the local and the global. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM260 | Language Teaching, Production and Analysis of Contemporary Teaching Materials Syllabus: Languages and their socio-cultural contexts. Language teaching and interculturality. Language education and the historical conditioning factors of contemporaneity: the interdisciplinary challenge in choosing and defining content, resources and teaching materials for language teaching. Relations between teaching practices, culture and identity: the local and the global. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their relationship with critical analysis and the production of teaching materials in the contemporary world. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM270 | Gender, Race and Ethnicity Studies and Concepts Syllabus: Theoretical frameworks and concepts of gender, race and ethnicity in the sciences, the arts and power relations in the contemporary world. Relations between race and coloniality. The body and sexuality as a political gender issue. The social construction of inequalities and power in gender relations: representations of masculinity and femininity. Epistemological conceptions of feminisms. The theory of gender performativity. Feminism and queer theory. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM280 | Ethnolinguistics Syllabus: Introduction to the study of the relationship between language and culture. The uses of language in different cultural patterns. The relationship between culture, language and ethnicity. Ethnolinguistics, orality, oral tradition and linguistic codification. Ethnolinguistics and school language education. Anthropological linguistics, language and culture. Language in different cultural contexts. Contacts between languages and their updating. Indigenous, quilombola and immigrant societies and their languages and cultures. Multilingualism and bilingualism. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM290 | Social History of Languages in Amazonia Syllabus: Amazonian languages, cultures and societies: historical paths. The “natural” languages of the Amazon and the linguistic aspects of indigenous cultures. Amazonian languages and language families (diversity and quantity) in the context of the arrival of the Iberian colonizers. The General Amazonian Language. The situation of indigenous languages in contemporary Amazonia. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM300 | Reading and Writing in Indigenous Societies Syllabus: Cultural, linguistic and ethnic plurality in the Amazon. The specific nature of school education and indigenous teachers. Reading and writing in oral tradition societies: school autonomy and indigenous protagonism in the construction of their curricula. Interculturality, transculturality, difference and indigenous school education. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM310 | Language, Borders and Interculturality Syllabus: Social movements (indigenous, Afro-descendants and other ethnic groups) on the Amazonian and pan-Amazonian borders. Cultural and linguistic transits and social transformations in the Amazon. Identity, otherness and cultural borders. Culture, nature and connections of arts and knowledge in Amazonian cities and forests. Critique of modernity and post-modernity. Cultural mediation and decolonial studies. Intercultural borders in Latin America. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM320 | Orality, Oral Tradition and Oral Literature Syllabus: Cultural practices, production and transmission of knowledge through orality. Oral literature in the Amazon. Orality and oral tradition. Relations between the oral and the written. Oral tradition and aspects of literacy. Oral literature, memory and myth. Indigenous, African and Afro-descendant oral narratives in the Amazon. Performance studies and oral practices: listening, narrating, singing. Oral narratives and musicality: sound, word, gesture and voice. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM330 | Sociolinguistics Syllabus: Definition of the sociolinguistic approach and its field of investigation in relation to the human sciences; specification of the objects of study; data collection, analysis and interpretation. Sociolinguistics and language teaching. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM340 | Special Topics I Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Language(gens) and Teacher Training. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM350 | Special Topics II Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Language(gens) and Teacher Training. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM360 | Special Topics III Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM370 | Special Topics IV Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM380 | Cultural Translation and Post-Colonial Studies Syllabus: Cultural translation studies. Literary criticism and subaltern and post-colonial studies. Coloniality of translation. Translation and decoloniality. Reading and translation practices. Cultural translation: an impossibility or a transcreation of the other (and of oneself). Poetic translation. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM390 | Introduction to Brazilian Indigenous Languages Syllabus: Historical and social overview of the indigenous languages spoken in Brazil: classification and distribution in Brazilian territory. Contact between Brazilian indigenous languages and Portuguese. Fieldwork methods for the study of Brazilian indigenous languages. Sociolinguistic and typological characteristics of Brazilian indigenous languages. | 30 | 2.0 |
OTHER CREDITS:
| Code | Name | C/H | Credits |
| LEM430 | Thesis Seminar I Syllabus: Under the responsibility and coordination of two lecturers (one from each line of research), the aim of this course is to provide a wide-ranging discussion of thesis projects, with emphasis on the subject, sources, objectives, data collection and analysis, theoretical basis and literature review on the research topic. It also aims to focus on issues related to interdisciplinary research and ethical standards and procedures as a criterion for ensuring quality in academic research. With the participation of the professors responsible for the subject and the supervision of each supervisor, the credit for this curricular component will be awarded based on a public seminar with the participation of other professors and other students linked to the line of research, to be held at the end of the first semester of the course. In addition to the works indicated, the bibliography will consist of the theoretical references inherent in the students' projects. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM440 | Thesis seminar II Syllabus: Curricular component under the supervision of each supervisor, with the participation of other professors and students from the respective line of research to which the doctoral student is linked, with the aim of providing a presentation of the results of ongoing research at the end of the third semester of the course. | 60 | 4.0 |
NOTE: Doctoral students must take all the compulsory courses and at least three elective courses, as well as Thesis Seminars I and II, the first at the end of the first semester and the second at the end of the third semester.
THESIS:
| Code | Name | C/H | Credits |
| LEM450 | THESIS | 180 | 12.0 |
SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES:
| Code | Name | C/H | Credits |
| 305 | Scheduled activities | 105 | 7.0 |
Note: The 7 (seven) credits of Programmed Activities must be completed as follows: 3 (three) credits with the participation of doctoral students in scientific events in the field; and 4 (four) credits with the publication of papers in national or international journals with qualis or in books or book chapters with qualis. Publications must be aligned with the Program's research lines and projects to which the students are linked.
In addition, according to PPGLI Resolution No. 28/2022, of July 28, 2022, all PPGLI Master's and Doctoral students must publish at least 1 (one) article in a journal for each year of the course, to be proven by the Lattes curriculum updated annually or whenever requested by the Coordination. The articles published should preferably be co-authored with their supervisors, in journals outside UFAC and with Qualis in the area of Linguistics and Literature. In addition to this requirement, scholarship holders and Capes - Social Demand scholarship holders will be required to write an additional article at the end of the course.
Link: PPGLI Resolution No. 28/2022, of July 28, 2022
TOTAL CREDITS FOR THE DEGREE:
| Subjects: 18 credits Other Credits: 8 credits Thesis: 12 credits |
| Programmed Activities: 7 credits |
| Total: 45 credits |
Teaching internship: Compulsory for scholarship students and optional for non-scholarship students (see CEPEX Resolution No. 038 of 20/12/2011).
MASTER'S COURSE IN LETTERS: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
COMPULSORY SUBJECTS:
| Code | Name of subject | C/H | Credits |
| LEM400 | Amazonian Cultures, Languages and Societies Syllabus: Language, culture and identity: conceptual reflections. Imaginary representations of the Amazon. Amazonian and Pan-Amazonian cultures, heritage, identities and societies. Linguistic, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Amazon. Amazonian arts and cultures. The land question in Amazonia and Pan-Amazonia: use, ownership, possession, conflicts; development models, biodiversity and sustainability. Nature and culture in the Amazon. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM410 | Discourses, Subjects and Identities Syllabus: Theories of enunciation. Theories of Discourse Analysis: its linguistic and historical object; subjectivity and otherness; production and circulation of meanings. Bakhtin's Circle and French DA. The post-structuralists. Theories of Deconstruction. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM420 | Linguistic theories Syllabus: Study of the general epistemological foundations of modern linguistics. Saussure's contribution to Linguistics and Semiology and the consequent dismemberments of Saussurian theory; the construction of Structuralism, Generativism and Functionalism. Linguistic variation and change. Applied Linguistics in Brazil. | 60 | 4.0 |
| LEM170 | Research Seminar I Syllabus: With a focus more on the Language(gens) and Teacher Training Research Line, this curricular component focuses on the different types of approaches and theoretical perspectives for the development of academic research. The aim is to discuss the development of the students' research: data collection techniques and analysis procedures, the sources and object of the research, the theoretical-methodological approach, literature review or “state of the art” on the topic under study. It also aims to produce discussions and guidelines on interdisciplinary research and on standards, ethical procedures and quality in academic research. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM180 | Research Seminar II Syllabus: Focusing more on the Cultures, Narratives and Identities line of research, this curricular component focuses on the different types of approaches and theoretical perspectives for the development of academic research. The aim is to discuss the development of the students' research: data collection techniques and analysis procedures, the sources and object of the research, the theoretical-methodological approach, literature review or “state of the art” on the topic under study. It also aims to produce discussions and guidelines on interdisciplinary research and on standards, ethical procedures and quality in academic research. | 30 | 2.0 |
ELECTIVE COURSES:
| Code | Name of subject | C/H | Credits |
| LEM200 | Culture, Education and Educational Practices Syllabus: Cultural studies and education. Cultural differences between subjects and educational practices. The poetics and politics of the curriculum text. Educational practices in the context of national regulation policies. The production of inequality. Teacher images and self-images. Subjects' relationship with knowledge. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM210 | Cultures and Literatures in the Pan-Amazon region Syllabus: Culture, literature, history and memory in the Amazon. Literatures, oral cultures and oral literature. Literary theories and comparatism. Transits and literary traditions in the Pan-Amazon: relations between the local and the global. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM260 | Language Teaching, Production and Analysis of Contemporary Teaching Materials Syllabus: Languages and their socio-cultural contexts. Language teaching and interculturality. Language education and the historical conditioning factors of contemporaneity: the interdisciplinary challenge in choosing and defining content, resources and teaching materials for language teaching. Relations between teaching practices, culture and identity: the local and the global. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their relationship with critical analysis and the production of teaching materials in the contemporary world. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM270 | Gender, Race and Ethnicity Studies and Concepts Syllabus: Theoretical frameworks and concepts of gender, race and ethnicity in the sciences, the arts and power relations in the contemporary world. Relations between race and coloniality. The body and sexuality as a political gender issue. The social construction of inequalities and power in gender relations: representations of masculinity and femininity. Epistemological conceptions of feminisms. The theory of gender performativity. Feminism and queer theory. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM280 | Ethnolinguistics Syllabus: Introduction to the study of the relationship between language and culture. The uses of language in different cultural patterns. The relationship between culture, language and ethnicity. Ethnolinguistics, orality, oral tradition and linguistic codification. Ethnolinguistics and school language education. Anthropological linguistics, language and culture. Language in different cultural contexts. Contacts between languages and their updating. Indigenous, quilombola and immigrant societies and their languages and cultures. Multilingualism and bilingualism. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM290 | Social History of Languages in Amazonia Syllabus: Amazonian languages, cultures and societies: historical paths. The “natural” languages of the Amazon and the linguistic aspects of indigenous cultures. Amazonian languages and language families (diversity and quantity) in the context of the arrival of the Iberian colonizers. The General Amazonian Language. The situation of indigenous languages in contemporary Amazonia. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM300 | Reading and Writing in Indigenous Societies Syllabus: Cultural, linguistic and ethnic plurality in the Amazon. The specific nature of school education and indigenous teachers. Reading and writing in oral tradition societies: school autonomy and indigenous protagonism in the construction of their curricula. Interculturality, transculturality, difference and indigenous school education. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM310 | Language, Borders and Interculturality Syllabus: Social movements (indigenous, Afro-descendants and other ethnic groups) on the Amazonian and pan-Amazonian borders. Cultural and linguistic transits and social transformations in the Amazon. Identity, otherness and cultural borders. Culture, nature and connections of arts and knowledge in Amazonian cities and forests. Critique of modernity and post-modernity. Cultural mediation and decolonial studies. Intercultural borders in Latin America. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM320 | Orality, Oral Tradition and Oral Literature Syllabus: Cultural practices, production and transmission of knowledge through orality. Oral literature in the Amazon. Orality and oral tradition. Relations between the oral and the written. Oral tradition and aspects of literacy. Oral literature, memory and myth. Indigenous, African and Afro-descendant oral narratives in the Amazon. Performance studies and oral practices: listening, narrating, singing. Oral narratives and musicality: sound, word, gesture and voice. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM330 | Sociolinguistics Syllabus: Definition of the sociolinguistic approach and its field of investigation in relation to the human sciences; specification of the objects of study; data collection, analysis and interpretation. Sociolinguistics and language teaching. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM340 | Special Topics I Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Language(gens) and Teacher Training. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM350 | Special Topics II Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Language(gens) and Teacher Training. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM360 | Special Topics III Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM370 | Special Topics IV Syllabus: Study of topics specifically related to the development of research within the Research Line: Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM380 | Cultural Translation and Post-Colonial Studies Syllabus: Cultural translation studies. Literary criticism and subaltern and post-colonial studies. Coloniality of translation. Translation and decoloniality. Reading and translation practices. Cultural translation: an impossibility or a transcreation of the other (and of oneself). Poetic translation. | 30 | 2.0 |
| LEM390 | Introduction to Brazilian Indigenous Languages Syllabus: Historical and social overview of the indigenous languages spoken in Brazil: classification and distribution in Brazilian territory. Contact between Brazilian indigenous languages and Portuguese. Fieldwork methods for the study of Brazilian indigenous languages. Sociolinguistic and typological characteristics of Brazilian indigenous languages. | 30 | 2.0 |
NOTE: Master's students must take all the compulsory courses and at least two elective courses.
DISSERTATION:
| Code | Name | C/H | Credits |
| LEM250 | DISSERTATION | 90 | 6.0 |
COMPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES:
| Code | Name | C/H | Credits |
| 202 | Academic-Scientific-Cultural Activities | 60 | 4.0 |
In addition, according to PPGLI Resolution No. 28/2022, of July 28, 2022, all PPGLI Master's and Doctoral students must publish at least one (1) article in a journal for each year of the course, to be proven by the Lattes curriculum updated annually or whenever requested by the Coordination. The articles published should preferably be co-authored with their supervisors, in journals outside UFAC and with Qualis in the area of Linguistics and Literature. In addition to this requirement, scholarship holders and Capes - Social Demand scholarship holders will be required to write an additional article at the end of the course.
Link: PPGLI Resolution No. 28/2022, of July 28, 2022
TOTAL CREDITS FOR THE DEGREE:
| Subjects: | 20.0 |
| Thesis/Dissertation: | 6.0 |
| Other (complementary activities): | 4.0 |
| Total: | 30.0 |
Teaching internship: compulsory for scholarship students and optional for non-scholarship students (see CEPEX Resolution No. 038 of 20/12/2011).
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