Subjects
GEO 601 – Theories of Geography – Offering period: I (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Geography in Enlightenment reason and the romantic movement; The philosophical and scientific foundations of modern Geography: Kant and scientific rationalism: Evolutionism, neo-Lamarckism, neo-Kantianism and historicism; Scientific methods and Geography: hypothetical-deductive method and neopositivism, dialectics and phenomenology: Currents of thought: positivism-historicist, Marxism and hermeneutics; Concepts: landscape, environment, region, territory, space, place; Modernity, globalization, identity movements.
GEO 602 – Organization of Scientific Work – Offering period: I (2 credits/30 hours)
Syllabus: Methodology of scientific work in Geography. Research Techniques. Scientific works and scientific publications: concepts, stages and standards for preparation. Ethics in scientific practice. Research project seminars.
GEO 603 – Territory and society: production, appropriation and restructuring – Line 2 – Productions and Appropriations of the Territory – Offering period: II (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: The territory in perspective: nature, appropriation and appreciation of space. Territory production and appropriation modalities. Specificities and particularities of territorial formation under the peripheral condition: State and modernization processes, networks and forms of insertion in the world economy. Crisis, spoliative accumulation and urban-regional restructuring.
GEO 604 – Socio-environmental Epistemology – Line 1 – Socio-environmental issues and dimensions of nature – Offering period: II (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Fundamentals of the concept of socio-environmental sustainability. Elements, factors, causes and consequences of Socio-Environmental Problems. Socio-environmental complexity in light of the problematization of contradictions between the capitalist paradigm of production and regulation. Limits of anthropized and “natural” ecosystems. Fundamentals of socio-environmental epistemology with the Geography teaching from a multi/trans/interdisciplinary perspective.
GEO 797 – Seminars – Offering period: I and II (1 credit/15 hours)
Syllabus: Discussion and exchange of experiences of postgraduate students, Participation in Seminars by invited researchers, Presentation of Master’s Research.
GEO 798 – Dissertation Qualification – Offering period: I and II (1 credit/15 hours)
Syllabus: Research and Writing of Dissertation Chapter. Discussion and Exchange of Experiences at Scientific Events. Participation in Qualification Committees and Dissertation Defense. Presentation of the Dissertation Qualification
GEO 799 – Research – Offering period: I and II
Syllabus: The objective of this discipline, of a practical nature, is to enable the student to plan and develop, under guidance, their research work, as well as the preparation of their dissertation.
Optional Subjects
GEO 618 – Landscape Planning and Management (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Study of planning and management in Brazil. Main actors involved: State, Non-Governmental Organizations – NGOs, popular movements and companies. The notion of landscape in geography. Legal instruments for environmental management of the landscape: ZEE (Ecological-Economic Zoning), Environmental Zoning, Management Plan, Municipal Master Plan, Water Resources Plan, Sanitation Plan, others; The environmental licensing process in Brazil and its relationship with the environmental management of the landscape.
GEO 620 – Public Policies and Management of Sanitation Services in the Brazilian Territory – Line 1 – Socio-environmental issues and dimensions of nature – Offering period: I, II and III (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Water Resources Planning and Management. Supply and Waste Water Quality Requirements and Standards. Sampling and Analytical Procedures. Estimates of Supply Water Consumption and Effluent Generation. Management of Service Provision. Supply Water Treatment Technologies. Impact of the Release of Effluents into Watercourses. Wastewater Treatment Technologies. Conservation and Reuse of Water. Sustainable Projects and Technological Alternatives Applied to Water Management.
GEO 630 – Environmental Planning and Control – Line 1 – Socio-environmental issues and dimensions of nature – Offering period: I, II and III (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Management Systems and Environmental Certification. Technical Aspects of Production Processes and the Control of Water, Atmospheric and Waste Pollution. Solids in Agroindustrial Typologies.
GEO 640 – Sustainable Management and Water Treatment Technologies – Line 1 – Socio-environmental issues and dimensions of nature – Offering period: I, II and III (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Requirements and Quality Standards for Supply and Waste Water. Sampling and Analytical Procedures. Estimates of Supply Water Consumption and Effluent Generation. Management of Service Provision. Supply Water Treatment Technologies. Impact of the Release of Effluents into Watercourses. Wastewater Treatment Technologies.
GEO 641 – Historical Geography of Zona da Mata (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Geography and History: exchanges and identities. The space-time and space-time issues of Zona da Mata. The social construction of the Zona da Mata region: fact or political fiction? Process of occupation of the region and socio-spatial implications. The formation of the urban network and its territorial implications. Conflicts of power and territorialities in Zona da Mata.
GEO 642 – Production of Urban Space in Brazilian Cities (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: The City and the Urban: notes for a distinction between the urban phenomenon; The People and the City: the historical conflicts of power in the face of the historical process of urban production; Cities and Networks: connections, exchanges and exchanges in the contemporary city; The Urban and environmental issue in the City; Themes about the City and the Urban in Brazil.
GEO 701 – Historical Geography of Cities and Territories (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Geography and History: exchanges and identities; The incorporation of time in geographic analysis: Time in the different schools of Geography; the space-time and space-time issues in the field of Historical Geography; Time and space or period, event and place. Historical geography: main schools. How to study the past in geography: methodological issues. Historical geography in Brazil.
GEO 711 – Applied Climatology (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Solar Radiation Balance. Modifications on the surface caused by the urbanization process and its interactions with the atmosphere. Techniques and methods in fieldwork. Meteorological equipment and preparation strategies for experimental data records. Atmospheric dynamics. Statistical techniques and cartographic representations in climatological analysis. The thermohygrometric field and its relationship with geoecological factors. The climate in planning. Case studies.
GEO 712 – Geocartography and Geographic Information System (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Fundamental concepts of Systematic Cartography, Thematic Cartography and Analytical Cartography. Development of cartographic techniques, manipulation of projections, scale, planimetric and altimetric interpretation of a topographic map. Development of survey techniques, analysis, synthesis and cartographic representation of thematic information, using conventional and digital procedures. Main concepts and basic functions of a GIS in spatial analysis. From Spatial Scales to Geographic Information Systems, GIS Basic Structures and Organization, Computer Mapping Techniques. Use of specific software and applications.
GEO 731 – Geopolitics and Scales of Contemporary Capitalism (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: The capitalist mode of production: preliminary concepts. Geopolitics from the perspective of radical political economy. Contemporary capitalism: Fordism and post-Fordism. The scalar structuring of the political and economic geography of capitalism under neoliberal aegis. Neoliberalism and uneven geographic development: urban, regional, national and global.
GEO 732 – Cultural Landscapes, Patrimony and Territorial Management (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Uses of memory, production of narratives and consecration strategies in public policies for the construction, preservation, conservation and safeguarding of material and immaterial urban historical patrimony and cultural landscapes; Territory management in late modernity; Participation of the social movement and local communities in public patrimony policies as an instrument for territorial management; Projects for the revaluation, requalification and resignification of old urban centers; Preservation policies integrating natural patrimony and urban material and intangible heritage.
GEO 733 – Production of Capitalist Space, Socio-Territorial Movements and Agrarian Question (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Theoretical and methodological instruments for analyzing the historical, economic, political and social processes of capitalist society. Formation of socio-territorial movements. Agrarian Question and agrarian reform.
GEO 734 – Capitalist Production and Social Movements (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Production of space, territory and restructuring of capital. Unequal processes of production and appropriation of territories – city and countryside: poverty and social struggles. Classic and contemporary Social Movements.
GEO 741 – Espaço urbano-regional: Teorias e Reflexões (2 créditos/30 horas)
Ementa: Globalização e cidades; as cidades nas regiões; relações cidade-campo; reflexões teórico-metodológicas sobre cidades médias e pequenas cidades/cidades locais; papéis recentes das cidades médias na rede urbana; novo Brasil urbano: significados, tendências e perspectivas das cidades médias e pequenas cidades.
GEO 751 – Landscape and Forest Fires (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: Fire: basic concepts. Factors that control fire behavior at landscape level: relief, climate and vegetation. Landscape modification and forest fire risks: homogenization, urban-rural interface, anthropogenic interference. Spatio-temporal determination of the risk of fires in vegetation. Fire ecology: Interference of fire in forest successional dynamics. Interference of fire in terrestrial mesofauna.
GEO 752 – Tropical and Subtropical Landscapes: genesis and dynamics (4 credits/60 hours)
Syllabus: The evolution of Brazilian relief and the main geomorphological theories. The systemic approach as a theoretical-methodological resource for the study of landscape dynamics and evolution. Analysis of weathering processes in the tropical and subtropical environment and the alteration products. Neotectonics and its influence on the evolution of landscapes. Integrated analysis of the insertion of evolutionary dynamics in the study of the landscape. The dynamics of society and changes in the landscape.
GEO 776 – Teaching Internship I (1 credit/15 hours)
Syllabus: This subject aims to provide postgraduate students with teaching experience, by planning, preparing and teaching theoretical and practical classes in subjects at the undergraduate level of the Department of Geography, under the supervision and monitoring of the professor of the respective undergraduate discipline.
GEO 777 – Teaching Internship II (2 credits/30 hours)
Syllabus: This subject aims to provide postgraduate students with teaching experience, by planning, preparing and teaching theoretical and practical classes in subjects at the undergraduate level of the Department of Geography, under the supervision and monitoring of the professor of the respective undergraduate discipline.
GEO 790 – Special Topics I (1 credit/15 hours)
Syllabus: Non-regularly offered subject, taught by visiting professors or from the Institution itself, concentrated or not. Variable content covering important topics for the student’s overall education, not covered in regular subjects offered by the University.
GEO 791 – Special Topics II (2 credits/30 hours)
Syllabus: Non-regularly offered subject, taught by visiting professors or from the Institution itself, concentrated or not. Variable content covering important topics for the student’s overall education, not covered in regular subjects offered by the University.