Objectives

General Objective:

The main objective of PPGH at UFFS is the academic and professional degree of high-level masters, committed to the progress of the historical knowledge, and qualified for the performance of the teaching profession, research, extension and other activities related to the market world and life in society.

Specific Objectives:

- Develop skills of scientific investigation and critical reflection about the historical phenomena;

- Promote consistent and continuous academic production by means of integrated and individual research projects;

- Prepare and qualify professionals for higher education in research projects in the institutions aimed at the preservation of material and immaterial culture, the memory of social movements and history of different social and cultural groups;

- Foster the advanced investigation of the Brazilian South Border, the social relations established in this space and environment;

- Allow graduate students in History and similar areas the access to the graduate program;

- Promote academic exchanges and agreements with national and international institutions;

- Foster the integration between undergraduate and graduate programs to reinforce the connection between these two levels of training and to strengthen the research groups and lines of the Program;