Curricular Structure

The curricular structure of the Master’s degree in Social Work is organized:

• Compulsory subjects of the concentration area;
• Electives subjects by lines of research;
• Optional subjects;
• Programmed activities that includes the participation in research groups, teaching internship – compulsory to CAPES scholarship students – and individual studies;
• Orientation, qualification exam and the master’s degree dissertation defense.

The subjects are biannual and bimonthly and the pay-up must be done in a minimum of twelve months and a maximum of thirty months. It is necessary to complete the 32 credits as follows:

• COMPULSORY SUBJECTS OF CONCENTRATION AREAS

* 5 compulsory subjects

This group of subjects, which totals 14 credits, should be taken by all the students. The subjects aim to deepen the knowledges and questions referring to the theoretical debate in Social Work. They also aim to qualify the students for social research. The subjects are:

Subject: State and Social Policy

Syllabus: Capitalism development and the role of the State and social policies. The liberal conception of the State: Classic and democratic liberalism and neoliberalism. The State in Marxist tradition. Social policies and citizenship construction: historical and theoretical-conceptual analysis. Contemporary capitalism, State and social policies crisis. The particularity of the Brazilian reality.

Subject: Social Work and Social Issue

Syllabus: The social-historical meaning of profession: particularities of Social Work in Brazilian society, foundations and the contemporary debate. Social issues foundations and their radicalization nowadays. The international Social Work and its particularities in Latin America. The debate of social issues in Social Work. Ethical-political project: challenges on the professional formation and exercise.

Subject: Research Seminar

Syllabus: The social research as a knowledge source. The object of knowledge. Research elements (study object definition, objectives, theoretical framework and methodological procedures). Research modalities. The research in social work.

Subject: Social Theory and Classic Sociology

Syllabus: The knowledge process and analysis of reality in Marx: historical-dialectical materialism. Bourgeois society, capitalist economy and the work category centrality. Durkheim and the foundations of functionalism: social labor division, social solidarity and the organicist conception of society. The Weber comprehensive sociology: rationality and the ideal types.

Territory, Society and Social Work

Syllabus: The totality categories, space and time. Space and territory in the debate of critical social theory. The social issue and its manifestations in territory: agriculture and urban issues. Social subjects, class warfare and State in the relation between field and city. The debate about territory in Social Work.

• ELECTIVE SUBJECTS OF THE LINES OF RESEARCH

*1 elective subject of 30h

The elective subjects are intimately related to the study objects developed in the line of research. They aim to deepen specific themes to which the projects of the teachers and students are bound. The student must take 01 elective subject, opting for the subject of the line that their dissertation project is linked, completing 02 credits.

Subjects of the line of research Social Policy and Public Management:

Subject: Public Management of Social Policies

Syllabus: Public management and the universalization of rights: the role of the State and the bureaucracy. The Brazilian State: Bourgeois State constitution in Brazil and the development of public administration. Public management of social policies in contemporaneity.

Subjects of the line of research Social Work and Social Subjects:

Subject: Social Movements and Social Work

Syllabus: Classes and class consciousness. Theory of the classic organization of workers: parties and syndicates. Theory of social movements and the debate of new social movements. Conceptions and historical development of syndicalism and social movements in Brazil. The relation of Social Work with social movements. Professional experiences in organization processes, mobilization and social warfare.

• MASTER’S DISSERTATION

*Master’s dissertation of 10 credits

Syllabus: Activity orientation, research, qualification exam, dissertation elaboration and defense.

• 10 credits

Orientation / thesis committee / thesis examining board (credited after the examining board)

According to the UFJF Superior Council of Postgraduate and Research, all students of postgraduate courses stricto sensu will necessarily take the subject Master’s Dissertation, with orientation of a faculty teacher. In the end of the first academic year, the master’s student must take the qualification examination of the dissertation project.

• LINE OF RESEARCH OPTATIVE SUBJECTS / PROGRAMED ACTIVITIES

. 06 credits obtained with the programmed activities, with requirement of, at least, 04 credits obtained with optional subject.

The programmed activities include: individual studies, participation in research or study groups, teaching internship, optative subjects among other activities that may be defined by the Program Collegiate.

• Optative Subjects

Subjects of Social Policies and Public Management line of research:

Subject: The Category of Civil Society and the Debate Called “Third Sector”

Syllabus: The debate of civil society in liberal, Marxian and Marxist tradition. The different “uses” of category in the Brazilian context in the 90’s and its ideological functionality to neoliberalism.

Subject: SUS Management

Syllabus: State and Health: history and politics. The management of SUS: financing, regionalization, resolution, technologies, health care model, organization of SUS health care networks, APS as a organizer and communication center of Health Care Networks (RAS), the APS in Juiz de Fora.

Subject: Social Issue and Socio-Territorial Inequality 

Syllabus: Theoretical paradigms of hegemonic economic development in occidental societies. The inseparable constitution of wealth and poverty forms that are particular to them.

Subject: Democratic Theory and the Public Policy Advices

Syllabus: Democracy in liberal and Marxist tradition. The participative democracy: contemporary debate. Advices of public policy and the democratic issue.

Subject: Special Topics in Social Policy and Public Management

Syllabus: Open syllabus subject.

Subjects of Social Work and Social Subjects line of research:

Subject: History, Culture and Social Work

Syllabus: The course proposes to reflect about the history and culture categories from authors considered important interlocutors for Social Work. The social assistant inserts themselves inside the historical processes and work with culture dimension, either in the field of professional work, or in the field of research. In this sense, we recover the issue of memory by having a research and work technique in the work with oral sources. We also recovered the “experience” category worked by Thompsom.

Subject: The Tools and Techniques in Social Work

Syllabus: The myths and dilemmas of the tools and techniques in Social Work: the theory and practice relation; the relation means/ends in the passage of theory to practice; practice and professional practice; professional practice and labor market; theory and knowledges. The dimensions of professional practice: the unit in diversity. The ethical-political project of profession. The traditional and emerging tools of professional intervention of the social worker.

Subject: Brazilian Social Thinking

Syllabus: The conceptions about class and revolution in Brazilian and Latin American social formation present in Brazilian social critical thinking of the 20th century.

Subject: Special Topics in Social Work and Social Subjects

Syllabus: Open syllabus subject.

Subject: Work and Syndical Organization

Syllabus: Syndicate, representation and worker identity. Conceptions and historical development of syndical movement in Brazil. Crisis, globalization and repercussions in the work world. The syndicalism crisis: impasses and perspectives.

PROGRAMMED ACTIVITIES

Programmed Activity: Teaching Internship

Syllabus: The students,  compulsory to CAPES scholarship students, must complete 02 two-month teaching internships, to be accomplished in FSS/UFJF, under the guidance of a teacher of the program.

Programmed Activity: Individual Studies

Syllabus: Open syllabus subject.

Programmed Activity: Research Group

Syllabus: Open syllabus subject.

ACTIVITIES FLOW

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