Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

UFSC Administration program prepares students for a diverse job market and a multifaceted society.

Theory and practice are combined in the curriculum to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of organizational structures and their respective management models. The courses aim at encouraging a broad view of the role of managers and their performance in organizations, as well as of the environment in which they operate and with which they relate.

In the job market, administrators secure positions in a wide range of areas, including general management, operations, marketing, finance, strategy and entrepreneurship, as any organization, whatever its size and complexity, needs qualified professionals for business management.

Through partnerships with various organizations, students have the opportunity to undertake internships that help them prepare for their future careers and also facilitate employment after graduation. Additionally, students can join the Ação Júnior and Invest Jr., enterprises run by themselves under the guidance of faculty members, providing consultancy services to diverse organizations.

Administration students can also engage in research and outreach activities, by working in projects coordinated by the program’s faculty, and take part in other student activities, by becoming a member of the Administration student association (Centro Acadêmico de Administração – CAAD) or the student athletic association (Atlética ADM UFSC).

UFSC was the first university in the state of Santa Catarina to offer an undergraduate degree in Accounting Science. With a tradition of more than four decades, the program is ranked among the best in Brazil, according to the Guia do Estudante magazine.

UFSC accounting graduates are able to guide business strategies, conduct audits and investigations, advise, and control the cash flow of a company.

Since the early stages, the student deals with theoretical concepts in courses such as General Accounting, Tax Accounting, Management Accounting, Public Accounting, Business Games and Tax Law. Through the elective courses, students can opt for more specific topics such as Rural Accounting, Industrial Accounting and Social Security Accounting.

From the beginning, the program encourages the pursuit of continuous education through participation in outreach projects and student tutoring. Under faculty supervision, students advise government agencies, entities and private companies, and learn how to better manage them.

The accounting student has access to an Applied Computer Lab and a Practical Activities Lab, which simulate common situations encountered in the professional career. The program also offers an Accounting Information Management Laboratory (LabGCI) and several research centers, such as the Center for Brazilian Accounting Indicators (NICb) and the Center for Studies in Auditing (NEAUD), where the student can commence research and outreach activities. Students can also take part in the Junior Enterprise of the School of Socio-Economic Sciences, which offers advisory services to small and medium-sized enterprises.

Upon completion of the program, the graduated student must apply for the Sufficiency Exam of the Federal Council of Accounting for professional registration. Since its implementation in 2000, UFSC is the university with the larger number of students approved in the exam.

The Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry aims to prepare professionals with a solid training in the main fields of Chemistry: Analytical, Physical, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, as well as in the fields of Biology, Physics and Mathematics. It also provides students with a broad theoretical and practical foundation that relates these fields with environment, sustainability, entrepreneurship and population life quality. The Program allows graduates to contribute to the development of scientific research and to the industrial production and development sector, as well as to perform other duties required for their profession.

Profile of the graduate

Graduates in Chemistry will master the basic techniques to operate laboratories and their equipment, as well as the theories and concepts concerning matter structure and reactivity. They should be able to participate in socioeconomic activities involving matter transformation processes, chemical analysis, and the research and development of new materials, methods and processes. They should also recognize chemistry as a human construction and understand the historical aspects involved in the process of knowledge construction and its relations with the economic, political and cultural context.

Courses are held during the afternoon and evening.

The Araranguá Campus’ Medicine Program was created in July 2017 and is housed by the School of Sciences, Technology and Health.

The program is structured in modules, where cognitive, attitudinal and procedural knowledge are developed in an articulate manner. This provides students with a global, integrated and practice-oriented approach to the learning process, facilitating both the process itself and the long-term acquisition of important concepts. This structure also allows for students to work in small groups, which enhances learning and rationalizes assessments.

The program’s curriculum prioritizes community-based learning, providing students with both practical knowledge and theoretical depth on the complex issues pertaining to medical care, since the first semester.

Graduates will become “medical professionals with a generalist, humanistic, critical, reflexive and ethical education”. Based on ethical principles, they will be qualified to work in the health-disease process at its various levels of care, acting for health promotion, prevention, recovery and rehabilitation from the perspective of integral care. They will carry a sense of social responsibility and commitment and be promoters of the integral health of the human being.

This is a full-time program.

Offered exclusively on the Curitibanos Campus, UFSC Veterinary Medicine Program has a 5-year duration, which is divided into 9 semesters of theoretical and practical courses and 1 semester of supervised internship.

The program provides students with the necessary knowledge to develop actions aimed at preventive veterinary medicine and public health, animal production and reproduction, technology and inspection of animal products, veterinary clinics, and environmentally conscious development of biotechnology, strengthening the concept of a free, public and quality education.

UFSC Veterinary Medicine graduates are professionals who have a generalist, humanist, critical and reflective profile and are able to understand and translate the needs of individuals, social groups and communities.

Throughout their studies, students have access to several teaching laboratories equipped with up-to-date equipment that enhance their professional training. The program’s faculty is predominantly composed of qualified doctoral degree holders who are recognized nationally or internationally in their respective areas of knowledge.

Courses are held during the day.

The Bachelor’s in Transportation and Logistics Engineering provides students with a systemic view of engineering, developed through a scaled and diversified curriculum, to prepare for a career in planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and management of passenger and cargo transport. Graduates can also work in interdisciplinary engineering fields, such as mechanical, electrical, production, mechatronic, metallurgical, materials, naval and infrastructure engineering, among others.

In the Brazilian scenario, transportation and logistics engineering is an outstanding field due to the current and future demands of transport logistics to operationalize different transport systems; still, the country has a large deficit of engineers in this area, when compared to developed countries.

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The Textile Engineer is able to work in the entire production chain of the textile industry, in the areas of spinning, weaving, knitting, nonwovens, as well as in textile processing, in the chemical processes of dyeing, printing, and in finishing treatments for the development of differentiated products, such as smart fabrics. They have the constant challenge to develop products that meet the consumers’ demands and requirements and that has market differential.

Textile Engineering graduates can work in textile industries, industries of inputs for processes and products (raw materials, packaging, equipment and additives), service companies, government and education agencies and companies, where they can perform activities in the areas of production and processes, quality assurance, research and development, projects, sales and marketing of the textile sector.

Besides clothing and bed, bath and table linens, textile engineering is also engaged in the production of technical textiles for medical application, such as hospital textiles, surgical and hygiene products, and artificial fabrics used for body reconstitution; for industrial application, such as separation filters; and for application in civil engineering, including protection and insulation blankets, among others.

UFSC Textile Engineering Program offers a broad training not only in the realm of engineering, physics and mathematics, but also in the areas of chemistry and materials, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other subjects that address issues of the textile production process, including those in the fields of environment, management, economy, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Learn more about the Textile Engineering Program by watching this video (in Portuguese):

The Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology program aims to prepare professionals who have a generalist, humanist, critical and reflective profile. The four-year program is composed of thematic modules and individual courses that complement each other through theoretical and practical classes, internships, didactic activities, research initiation and outreach activities. The curriculum structured in modules allows the construction of integral, non-fragmented knowledge, built from the various areas of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and other related fields.

The speech-language pathologist and audiologist graduated from UFSC is qualified for a career in clinical and educational areas as well as in public health. The program provides a humanist training concerned with collectivity, resulted from the interconnection of speech-language pathology and audiology with the current principles of the Unified Health System (SUS): universality, equity and integrality.

Such training considers the insertion and growth of speech-language pathology and audiology in the field of collective health. This growth has been legitimized by federal, state and municipal laws concerning the area inside the Unified Health System, such as the structuring of the National Network for the Integral Health Care of Workers, the National Policy of Hearing Health, among others.  Since the early stages, students participate actively in theoretical and practical courses and in internships that promote critical and reflective thinking related to the various areas of speech-language pathology and audiology, with emphasis on collective health.

This way, the program aims to provide students with competencies related to: health care, decision making, communication, leadership, management, permanent education, logical reasoning and critical analysis, interdisciplinary team work, research initiation, and the appropriation of values related to the social, justice and ethical aspects of the profession.

Graduates should be able to:

• understand speech-language pathology and audiology and their different fields of work, establishing relations with other areas of knowledge;
• understand the genesis and development of the human being in bio-psycho-social aspects, to make appropriate interventions to different social demands;
• know and reflect upon the theoretical and practical concepts required for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of disorders found in their area of work, seeking the best approach in each case;
• search for answers that are articulated and consistent with the social and cultural reality of the community;
• understand the different work settings and carry out their practice with commitment to the social problems;
• show professional awareness to continuously reflect upon and reevaluate their therapeutic practices;
• seek continuous education and training to meet the constant transformations and challenges of the profession;
• use methodological tools to observe, reflect and interpret situations in their daily work;
• register, describe and report observations so as to enable the integration between evaluation, planning and therapeutic care;
• work ethically and build an intervention that is relevant and appropriate to the individual’s needs.

Fields of work:

• Public Health Care: basic health units, hospitals, centers of reference in health and research, departments of health and education, family health, among others;
• Private Health Care: clinics, doctors’ offices, hospitals, private institutions, companies and industries, schools, among others.

The speech-language pathologist and audiologist promotes, prevents and carries out assessments and treatments related to oral and written language, voice, hearing, orofacial myology and swallowing. The specialties in the field are: audiology, language, voice, orofacial myology, dysphagia, educational speech-language pathology and audiology, and collective health.

Characteristics:

• Degree: Bachelor
• Program Length: 3.978 class hours (3330 hours)
• Time limit for degree completion: Minimum: 4 years / Average: 5 years / Maximum: 6 years.
• Courses held during the day.

UFSC offers seven different programs in the field of languages and literature. Students looking to pursue studies in this field must choose among the following programs: English Language and Literatures (afternoon classes), French Language and Literatures (morning classes), German Language and Literatures (afternoon classes), Italian Language and Literatures (morning classes), Portuguese Language and Literatures (day and evening classes), and Spanish Language and Literatures (morning classes).

The programs will focus on the language, literature and culture of the countries where the chosen language is spoken. In the fifth semester, students may choose if they want to follow a teaching career. If they opt for a teaching degree, students must complete a teaching practicum in public or private schools. If not, courses are focused on research and prepare students for the writing of a final thesis. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures also offers an undergraduate degree program in Executive Secretarial Science (evening classes).

Language and Literature graduates can work in primary and secondary education, as well as teaching in language schools and in preparation courses for university entrance examinations. Other career opportunities include interpretation in meetings and conferences, technical and literary translation, text revision and proofreading, and academic research in Literature and Linguistics.

The UFSC Social Work Program aims to prepare students for the social work practice based on a critical analysis of the social reality in order to confront social inequalities.

This requires the development of special skills to act for the strengthening of egalitarian and democratic practices in the interpersonal and institutional scope, while at the same time confronting the mechanisms of oppression and reproduction of subalternity. It is essential that the social worker graduated from UFSC masters the political strategies of social mobilization in order to place popular participation as means and end of the process of ensuring social rights and of designing and implementing public social policies.

It also requires mastery and application of techniques for designing, executing and evaluating plans, programs and projects in the social area, as well as of the dynamics of organizing, planning and managing benefits and services (i.e. visits, technical investigation, reports and information releases on Social Work matters), combining the professional specificity with the interaction in interdisciplinary teams. All this associated with the strategies of socialization of institutional information and of guidance to the population on identifying resources for meeting and defending their rights.

The program develops theoretically critical social workers committed to the achievements and struggles of the working class, able to politicize demands and to strengthen popular participation for the breaking down of political subalternization processes.

It is structured in three sections: i) theoretical and methodological foundations of social life, ii) socio-historical foundations of Brazilian society, and ii) foundations of the social work practice. In the early stages, students take general courses, such as: Socio-Historical Formation of Brazil, Introduction to Sociological Theory, and Political Science. In the second half of the program, they take specific courses on Social Work matters. The curriculum also includes a supervised internship that must be carried out along three consecutive semesters, starting from the sixth semester, and a final thesis (TCC), which must be written in the final semester.