Research Lines
RLs – Research Lines
The Program is structured in two RLs that have well-defined outlines, which facilitate the allocation of research according to its theoretical-analytical guidelines. In addition, at the PPGCom, a practice of constant dialogue between the RLs was instituted in order to verify and guarantee the reception of the projects, the curricular structure and the contents of the activities developed during the course.
RL “Cinema and Audiovisual Studies”
It studies cinema and other audiovisual media in their communicational, narrative and aesthetic instances, with an emphasis on their structural and thematic components in the stages of the production process, both in the traditional or classic film spheres and in the experimental ones, of fictional or documentary character, as well as in relation to television, video and other similar media. It investigates the historical, technological and socio-cultural evolutions of the media in question, and proposes theoretical references for critical-analytical procedures. The RL assumes the “cinematographic” as a comprehensive presence in the society that authorizes the use of the knowledge constituted as a starting point and reference for the study of other products and media interfaces. Research can also dialogue with contemporary theories of media and aesthetics in their industrial and technological insertions.
RL “Media Processes and Communication Practices”
It focuses on the different forms of mediation of intersubjective relations, considered as constituting communicational practices and defining ways of life in society. It examines, in the variety of media devices, the aspects of production, mediatization, circulation and communicative potential in and for social networks. It is interested in forms of experiences built on the basis of communicative acts, whether provided by massive products, face-to-face relationships or processes in digital networks. Therefore, it investigates several communicational practices in their configurations, convergences and aesthetic or political implications, conceived as actions mediated by languages, or constituting meaning in action. The focus, therefore, is not on specific means, but on their diversity, on the figurations they assume, on the enunciative implications that they originate and on the reconstructions provided by the circulatory processes.
RL “Cinema and Audiovisual Studies”
Prof. Dr. Denise Guimarães
Prof. Dr. Denize Araujo
Prof. Dr. Fernando Andacht
Prof. Dr. Sandra Fischer
RL “Media Processes and Communication Practices”
Prof. Dr. Angie Biondi
Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Marquioni
Prof. Dr. Geraldo Pieroni
Prof. Dr. Kati Caetano
Prof. Dr. Mônica Fort
Curriculum Structure
The PPGCom/UTP organizes its curricular structure through compulsory subjects, electives, special topics, advanced seminars, research activities, preparation, qualification and defense of the Dissertation / Thesis.
Master’s Degree
To obtain the title of Master in Communication and Languages by the Post-graduate Program in Communication and Languages at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (PPGCom/UTP), students must complete 1,440 hours, corresponding to 96 credits. To do so, they must comply with:
– 1 compulsory disciplines of the Common Core (45 hours each = 3 credits), which are: Communication Research;
– 9 elective disciplines (45 hours each = 3 credits), chosen from: (1) Cinema Theories, (2) Communication Aesthetics, (3) Cinema Aesthetics, (4) Communication Policies, (5) Cinema and New Media, (6) Cinema and Television, (7) Epistemology of Communication, (8) Communication and Technological Society, (9)Theories of Communication;
– 06 Special Topics – TOPE (5 hours each, total 30 hours = 2 credits);
– Compulsory (90 hours = 6 credits) and elective (30 hours = 2 credits) targeted activities, previously specified to students in the presentation of the curriculum;
– Dissertation preparation and defense (975 hours = 65 credits).
Master´s students can attend Advanced Seminars (SEVAN), from the Doctorate Course, and validate them as Special Topics (TOPE).
Doctorate Degree
In order to obtain the title of Doctor in Communication and Languages by the PPGCom/UTP, students must complete 2,400 hours, corresponding to 160 credits. To do so, they must comply with:
– 1 compulsory disciplines of the Common Core (45 hours each = 3 credits): Communication Research;
– 9 elective courses (45 hours each = 3 credits) chosen from (1) Cinema Theories, (2) Communication Aesthetics, (3) Cinema Aesthetics, (4) Communication Policies, (5) Cinema and New Media, (6) Cinema and Television, (7) Epistemology of Communication, (8) Communication and Technological Society (9)History Communication;
– 6 Special Topics (5 hours each, total 30 hours = 2 credits);
– 6 Advanced Seminars (5 hours each, total 30 hours = 2 credits);
– Compulsory (90 hours = 6 credits) and Elective (30 hours = 2 credits) targeted activities, previously specified for students in the presentation of the curriculum;
– Thesis preparation and defense (1,950 hours = 130 credits).
Staff Members
Faculty
The ten Faculty Professors of the PPGCom/UTP either lead or participate in research groups accredited by CNPq. In addition to this, some of its members are part of groups from other Programs for carrying out joint research and other activities:
GP CIC-UTP in partnership with CIAC –Portugal;
GP GRUDES (UTP) / Interculturality, Citizenship, Communication and Consumption (ESPM)/ CINECRIARE (UNESPAR)/ The Visual Sign in the Media (USCS);
GP INCOM (UTP) / CLIC (UFPR)/ GRAFO / NAVI (UFF) and Integrated Research Network on Photography Theory and Analysis (UFF);
GP JORXXI (UTP) / COM21 (UFPR);
With regard to the highest degrees (Doctorate and Postdoctoral), the concentration of titles is in the area of Communication: out of ten, seven Professors completed their doctoral studies in the area of Communication. Another three completed their Doctorates in the following areas: 01 in History, one in Linguistics and 01 in Comparative Literature, Cinema and Arts, but all of them are committed to research within the area of Communication and Languages.
The PPGCom/UTP Professors also participate in specific activities in other PPGs, invited to join external boards, round tables at events, to give lectures and teach classes, in addition to carrying out extension and research activities, as can be seen in the report of technical-scientific productions. They are also part of editorial boards of qualified journals in Qualis periodicals, such as Galaxy, Rumors, Folds, Media Action, E-Compós, Famecos, Interin, and are reviewers of several scientific journals in the area of communication such as Galaxy, Rumors, Matrices, E-Compós, Famecos, Folds, Verse and Reverse, In Question, Media Action, Intext, in addition to provide editorial advice for publishing books in the area. All Professors are part of academic-scientific associations such as COMPÓS, INTERCOM, SBPJor, SOCINE, ABCIBER, ABES, IAMCR, CONFIBERCOM, LUSOCOM, ALAIC. Some are members of scientific boards or councils of the associations in which they participate.
Faculty Professors
RL “Cinema and Audiovisual Studies”
Prof. Dr. Denise Guimarães
Prof. Dr. Denize Araujo
Prof. Dr. Fernando Andacht
Prof. Dr. Sandra Fischer
RL “Media Processes and Communication Practices”
Prof. Dr. Angie Biondi
Prof. Dr. Carlos Eduardo Marquioni
Prof. Dr. Geraldo Pieroni
Prof. Dr. Kati Caetano
Prof. Dr. Mônica Fort
Selective Processes
The PPGCom/UTP regularly carries out Selection Processes at the end of the year (December) for candidates interested in the Master´s or Doctorate courses, specifying the number of vacancies per course.
The selection has the following steps, from the delivery of the research project in the registration:
Master:
Proof of foreign language proficiency with dictionary consultation (not eliminatory, but compulsory presence).
Interview for intellectual defense of the research project
Doctorate degree:
Proof of foreign language proficiency with dictionary consultation
Written test with recommended bibliography
Interview for intellectual defense of the research project
Calls and results are published in public announcements.
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