1. CURRICULAR STRUCTURE
The Postgraduate Program’s disciplines are divided into three groups:
1.1 Academic Practices: Disciplines of universal education, directed toward student preparation for the exercise of the academic activities of research and teaching. The disciplines are common to the two lines of research, taken in joint classes, some of them being mandatory and others optional. The mandatory disciplines are offered annually and include: those of basic theoretical education (master’s), of research methodology (master’s), and of directed production (doctorate). Seven disciplines are provided in this group:
Master’s Degree: mandatory for the master’s and common to the two lines of research.
Doctorate: optional for the doctorate. However, the Theoretical Problems in Communication discipline is mandatory for doctoral students who have not obtained their master’s in communication.
• THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION (1st semester) Study of the basic concepts, themes, and authors that constitute the field of communication. Theories of communication and problems of technique, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.
Basic Bibliography:
COSTA LIMA, L. (ed). Teoria da cultura de massa. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1990. CURRAN, J.; GUREVITCH, M. (Eds.). Mass Media and Society. London: Oxford Un. Press, 2000. FRANÇA, V.; HOHLFELDT, A.; MARTINO, L.C. (eds.). Teorias da comunicação: conceitos, escolas e tendências. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2001. GITLIN, T. Mídia sem limites: como a torrente de imagens e sons domina nossas vidas. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2003. KELLNER, D. A cultura da mídia: estudos culturais: identidade e política entre o moderno e o pós-moderno. Bauru, SP: EDUSC, 2001. MATTELART, A.; MATTELART M. História das teorias da comunicação. São Paulo: Loyola, 1999. SILVERSTONE, R. Por que estudar a mídia? São Paulo: Loyola, 2002. SODRÉ, M. Antropológica do Espelho: uma teoria da comunicação linear e em rede. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002.
• COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS (2nd semester) The theoretical field of communication and the main tendencies in current research. The link among theoretical assumptions, delimitation of objects, and formulation of hypotheses. Research methods and techniques in the Social and Human Sciences and their applications in the field of communication. The course is developed according to the dominant themes in the research projects of enrolled students.
Basic Bibliography:
BACHELARD, G. A Epistemologia. São Paulo: Ed. 70, 2006. BOURDIEU, P. Coisas Ditas. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1990. BRAGA, J. L. O problema da pesquisa – como começar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, Unisinos, available at: http://www.unisinos.br/principal/ > Mestrado/Doutorado >Alunos > Comunicação > Elabore seu Projeto. FOUCAULT, M. Arqueologia do Saber. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2006. KUHN, T. A Estrutura das Revoluções Científicas. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1975. LOPES, M. I. V. de (ed.). Epistemologia da Comunicação. São Paulo: Loyola, 2003.
Doctorate: mandatory and exclusive
• DIRECTED PRODUCTION (3rd semester) To stimulate student scientific production. Participation in two national or international events with paper presentations and publication in annals; publication of articles in national and/or international periodicals and/or books.
Basic Bibliography: to be defined in a joint manner with the research developed by the students.
Doctorate: optional and exclusive
• DIRECTED TEACHING PRACTICE (mandatory only for fellows) To contribute to teacher education, with a view to the development of competencies related to teaching in higher education. To incentivize the integration between the postgraduate and undergraduate programs. To provide students contact with the different stages of the pedagogical process, from planning until testing, bearing in mind the globality of the experience. The activity will be accompanied and graded by the advisor.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
• ADVANCED SEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION I Seminar of an investigative character centered on a specific theme related to research developed by the program.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
• ADVANCED SEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION II Seminar of a monographic character centered on a relevant author related to research developed by the program.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
• NEW PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION THEORY Study of emerging theories in the field of communication studies and new perspectives of investigation about communication phenomena.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
1.2 Basic Fields: Disciplines referring to the basic fields of investigation in each line of research. Every semester, each line should offer at least one discipline of this group. They are taken in joint classes of master’s and doctoral students. The new course syllabi provide nine disciplines of this type, four of them in the Aesthetics and Communication line; and five in the Media and Sociocultural Mediations line:
• COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE Analysis of the cultural dynamic in contemporary society. Tensions among communication, the cultural industry, and social projects. Investigation of the complexity of communication systems in the contemporary world.
• COMMUNICATION AND DISCOURSE Communication narratives: construction processes and discursive specificities. Narrative and discourse. Intertextuality as mediation. Language as communication process. Organization of meanings. Contextualization and recontextualization of meaning. Discursive configurations.
Basic Bibliography: BAKHTIN, M. Estética da criação verbal. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1997. BARTHES, R. Mitologias. São Paulo: Difel, 1982. LANDOWSKI, E. A sociedade refletida. Campinas: Pontes, 1995. PINTO, M. J. Comunicação e discurso. São Paulo: HACKER, 1999. VERÓN, E. Fragmentos de um tecido. São Leopoldo: Unisinos, 2004
• COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY The comprehension of the role of communication in social life in the gathering spaces of contemporary societies and their strategies of sociability. The dimension of relations among sociotechnical networks.
Basic Bibliography: ARENDT, H. A condição humana. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 1993. CAIAFA, J. Novo Século XXI: notas sobre arte, técnica e poderes. Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 2000. DEBORD, G. A Sociedade do Espetáculo. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 1997. HARDT, M.; NEGRI, A. Império. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2001. SENNETT, R. O declínio do homem público. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1988. VATTIMO, G. Sociedade Transparente. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água, 1992.
• COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS The role of media in democratic and/or authoritarian political processes. The social responsibilities of media. Media strategies for political gain. Forms of media control by the State and by society.
Basic Bibliography: BOBBIO, N. Estado, Governo e Sociedade. São Paulo: Paz & Terra, 2000. COUTINHO, C. N. Gramsci: um estudo sobre seu pensamento político. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1999. GRAMSCI, A. Os intelectuais e a organização da cultura. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 1995. IYENGAR, S.; McGRADY, J. Media Politics: a citizen’s guide. Stanford: W.W. Norton & Co: College Books, 2006. LIMA, V. A. Mídia: teoria e política. São Paulo: Fundação Perseu Abramo, 2012. SOUSA SANTOS, B. Pela mão de Alice: o social e o político na pós-modernidade. Rio de Janeiro: Cortez, 2006.
• COMMUNICATION AND THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT I Communication and information. The question of the Real in contemporary culture, its modes of appropriation, and the history of its problematic constitution. The historical separations between opinion and truth. Western forms of truth: philosophy, religion, art, and science. A culture in transition between the modern and the contemporary: media, opinion, and simulation.
Basic Bibliography: AMARAL, M. T. Comunicação e diferença. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Ufrj, 2005. FOUCAULT, M. As palavras e as coisas. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1984. HABERMAS, J. Discurso filosófico da modernidade. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2002. HEIDEGGER, M. Questions I e II. Paris: Gallimard, 1990. HEIDEGGER, M. Chemins qui ne mènent nulle part. Paris: Gallimard, 1962. NIETZSCHE, F. O crepúsculo dos ídolos. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 2006.
• COMMUNICATION, IDENTITY, AND REPRESENTATIONS Theoretical and/or empirical study of the processual modalities in media. Identitarian logic and media. Gender, race, and representations. Multiculturalism and interculturality. Founding categories and reconfigurations.
Basic Bibliography: CASTELLS, M. O Poder da Identidade. A Era da Informação: Economia, Sociedade e Cultura, v. 2. 3 ed. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2001. DEBORD, G. A sociedade do espetáculo. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 1997. FOUCAULT, M. Microfísica do poder. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1979. HALL, S. Da diáspora: identidades e mediações culturais. Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2003. HARVEY, D. A condição pós-moderna. São Paulo: Loyola, 1994. KELLNER, D. A cultura da mídia: estudos culturais: identidade e política entre o moderno e o pós-moderno. Bauru, SÃO PAULO: EDUSC, 2001.
• MEDIA, MEMORY, AND HISTORY Media as articulators of social memory. Media as a product of historical processes. Historical conceptions and historiography in media. Memory and historical construction.
Basic Bibliography: CAMPOS, M. C,; INDURSKY, F. Discurso, Memória, Identidade. Porto Alegre: Sagra-Luzzato, 2000. COSTA, I. T. M.; ORRICO, E.G. Memória, Cultura e Sociedade. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. 7 Letras, 2003. FERREIRA, L.M.; ORRICO, E.G. D. (eds). Linguagem, Identidade e Memória Social: novas fronteiras, novas articulações. Rio de Janeiro: DP&A, 2002. HUYSSEN, A. Seduzidos pela memória. Rio de Janeiro: Artiplano, 2000. MOREIRA, S. V. Comunicação, Acontecimento e Memória. São Paulo: Intercom, 2005. RIBEIRO, A. P. G.; FERREIRA, L. M. A. (eds.). Mídia e Memória. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad X, 2007.
• COMUNICATION AND CONSUMPTION To comprehend the expansion and relevance of consumption in modern capitalist society, covering the various historical configurations that made possible the passage from a society directed toward production to a society directed toward consumption. To problematize contemporary discourses on consumption and its relations to questions of individual autonomy, responsibility, and social control. To reflect on the role of fetishism in the subjectivity of market society and the outcomes of related strategies with respect to social organization and to the nation-space.
Basic Bibliography: BAUMAN, Z. Vida de consumo. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Econômica, 2007. CANCLINI, N. G. Consumidores e Cidadãos. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. UFRJ, 1995. CANCLINI, N. G. La globalización imaginada. Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2001. CERTEAU, M. A invenção do cotidiano. 1. Artes de fazer. 6.ed. Petrópolis Vozes, 1994. FEATHERSTONE, M. Cultura de consumo e pós-modernismo. São Paulo: Studio Nobel, 1995. FISKE, J. Understanding popular culture. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989. VILLAÇA, N. A edição do corpo: tecnociência, artes e moda. Burueri: Estação das Letras, 2007.
• COMUNICATION AND URBAN EXPERIENCES To study communicative modalities in the urban context. To comprehend the specificity of the urban phenomenon and its role in contemporaneity. To investigate the circulation of cultural production and symbolic networks in contemporary cities. To distinguish and investigate media products and languages related to urban life. To explore the aspect of diversity production that characterizes cities and its developments in specific contexts.
Basic Bibliography: CAIAFA, J. Aventura das cidades: ensaios e etnografias. Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV, 2007. CANCLINI, N. G. Culturas Híbridas. São Paulo: Edusp, 1998. HARVEY, D. Espaços de Esperança. São Paulo: Loyola, 2004. HERSCHMANN, M. Lapa, cidade da música. Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Mauad X, 2007. JACOBS, J. Morte e vida de grandes cidades. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2000. ORTIZ, R. Um outro território. São Paulo: Olho d’Água, 1999. SARLO, B. Cenas da vida pós-moderna. Rio de Janeiro: Editora UFRJ, 1997
• ALTERNATIVE, POPULAR, AND COMMUNITARIAN COMMUNICATION Discussion about media products and the investigation of alternative forms of production of communication strategies in the horizon of old and new media. Growing integration among informal, formal, and alternative expressions. Alternative and/or marginal forms of production and communication. Counter-hegemonic forms of use of new information technologies.
Basic Bibliography: BHABHA, H. O Local da Cultura. Belo Horizonte: UFMG, 2003. CERTEAU, M. de. A invenção do cotidiano. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2000. ESPOSITO, R. Communitas. Paris: PUF, 2000. GUATTARI, F. Caosmose. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. 34, 2006. HERSCHMANN, M. O funk e o hip-hop invadem a cena. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, 2000. PAIVA, R. O Espírito Comum. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 2007.
• COMMUNICATION, NARRATIVITY, AND DISCOURSE Analysis of the different theoretical matrixes related to the construction and comprehension of communicational meanings. Interpretative methods. Specificities of interpretation of media narratives. Subjectivity and narrativity.
Basic Bibliography: BAKHTIN, M. Marxismo e filosofia da linguagem. São Paulo: Hucitec, 1981. BARTHES, R. Aventura semiológica. Lisboa: Edições 70, 19 ECO, U. Os limites da interpretação. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1999. MARTIN-BARBERO, J. De los médios a las mediaciones. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1986. MARTIN-BARBERO, J.; REY, G. Os exercícios do ver. São Paulo: Senac, 2001. MORIN, E. Cultura de Massas no século XX. O espírito do tempo – I. Neurose. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 1984.
• COMMUNICATION, ECONOMY, AND POLITICS Conceptual and contextual elements of communication practices in contemporary society. New tendencies in the production, distribution, and consumption of communication and information. The commercial form of communication and information: press, radio broadcast, electronic media, databases, and libraries. The new public space and digital media. Communication policies and Citizenship. Communication policies and socioeconomic structures. Communication policies and political systems. Political economy of the communication and information society. New digital forms of social exclusion.
Basic Bibliography: CALABRESE, A.; SPARKS, C. Toward a Political Economy of Culture: capitalism and communication in the twenty-first century. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. GARNHAM, N. Capitalism and communication, global culture and the economics information. London: Sage, 1990. GOLDING, P.; MURDOCK, G. (eds.). The Political Economy of the Media. Cheltenham, UK; Brookfield, US: The International Library of Studies in Media and Culture, v. I, 1997a. GOLDING, P.; MURDOCK, G. (eds.). The Political Economy of the Media. Cheltenham, UK; Brookfield, US: The International Library of Studies in Media and Culture, v. II, 1997b. MIÈGE, B. The Capitalization of cultural production. Nova Iorque: Internetional General, 1989. MOSCO, V. The political economy of communication: rethinking and renewal. Londres: Sage, 1996.
• COMUNICATION AND CULTURAL STUDIES Conceptual and contextual elements of cultural and reception studies. The complexity of current communication systems. Processes of identity construction. Reception and processes of identification. Traditions of reception studies. Methodological aspects, ethnography, and life history.
Basic Bibliography: CERTEAU, M. A invenção do cotidiano. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 1994 [1980]. CEVASCO, M. E. Dez lições sobre estudos culturais. São Paulo: Boitempo, 2003. DENNING, M. A cultura na era dos três mundos. São Paulo: Francis, 2005. FREIRE FILHO, J. Reinvenções da resistência juvenil: os estudos culturais e as micropolíticas do cotidiano. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad, 2007. KELLNER, D. A cultura da mídia – estudos culturais: identidade e política entre o moderno e o pós-moderno. Bauru, SP: EDUSC, 2001. MATTELART, A.; NEVEU, É. Introdução aos estudos culturais. São Paulo: Parábola, 2004.
• JOURNALISM AND CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING The relation between media and everyday social experience, representations of reality. Construction processes of journalistic information in different media and languages. Media discourses and functions as social practices that produce meanings. Production versus reception.
Basic Bibliography BENETTI, M.; LAGO, C. Metodologia de pesquisa em jornalismo. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2007. CASTELLS, M. Mobile communication and society: a global perspective. London: The Mit Press, 2007. FAIRCLOUGH, N. Discurso e Mudança Social. Brasília: Editora UNB, 2001. MARTÍN-BARBERO, J. Os exercícios do ver. São Paulo: Editora Senac, 2001. MELO, J. M. Teoria do Jornalismo. São Paulo: Paulus, 2006. TRAQUINA, N. O estudo do jornalismo no século XX. São Leopoldo RS: Editora Unisinos, 2003.
• COMMUNICATION AND THE HISTORY OF THOUGHT II The problematic territories of contemporary culture. Truth, simulation, and difference; the real, discourse, and reference; subjectification, suffering, and possibility. Systems of thought, between the modern and the contemporary. Media, meaning, and ethics. Time, being, and becoming.
Basic Bibliography: FOUCAULT, M. História da Sexualidade I: A vontade de saber. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 2007. HABERMAS, J. A inclusão do outro. São Paulo: Loyola. 2002. HEIDEGGER, M. Ensaios e Conferências. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002. NIETZSCHE, F. A genealogia da moral. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 2002. TAYLOR, C. As fontes do self. São Paulo: Loyola, 1997.
2. MANDATORY CONTACT HOURS
Master’s degree: 360 hours/24 credits: 6 disciplines of 4 credits, totaling 360 hours. Doctorate: 720 hours/48 credits: 12 disciplines of 4 credits, totaling 720 hours.
Relevant Observations:
a) Doctoral students can request exemption from only three course disciplines, using disciplines already completed in the master’s; b) The contact hours of the disciplines will be met by the faculty and students, by combining expository classes and directed studies; c) Master’s students will complete two semesters of Thesis Research and doctoral students five semesters of Dissertation Research.
3. DISTRIBUTION OF COURSE SYLLABI:
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