Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage and Society
The Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage and Society aims to give value to the cultural aspects in interpersonal relations and promote the training of professionals who already work or will work with the sectors related to culture. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the course is geared to different training needs.
The Master in Cultural Heritage and Society should respond to social demands related to knowledge in cultural heritage (in higher and basic education, in an advisory and managerial capacity in different organizations) and to continue their education at doctoral level, especially in interdisciplinary or interdisciplinary sensitive programs.
Target Public: due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Master’s course in Cultural Heritage and Society is aimed at professionals from different backgrounds: cultural and environmental managers, professionals involved in museums, archives, cultural and memory centers, teachers, lawyers, visual communicators, administrators and other professionals in the Social and Humanities areas who want or need to expand their training.
Course objectives
Train teachers for higher education with ability to merge teaching with research and research with teaching, in an interdisciplinary perspective and train professionals who already work or will work in agencies dealing with the protection / appreciation, transmission / distribution and social appropriation of cultural heritage.
The Master’s Degree focuses on the area of "Cultural Heritage, Identity and Citizenship" encompassing two lines of research: "Equity and Social Memory" and "Heritage and Sustainability". With 24 month duration, the Curriculum Matrix allows the graduate student to integrate 30 credits distributed between compulsory disciplines and elective disciplines (24 credits) and dissertation (6 credits).
Curriculum matrix
Compulsory disciplines
• Memory and Identity
• Cultural Heritage and Citizenship I
• Cultural Heritage and Citizenship II
• Contemporary Thought
• Dissertation Seminars I
• Dissertation Seminars II
Elective disciplines
• Visual and Verbal Culture
• Esthetics
• Cultural Studies
• Ethics, Culture and Society
• Cultural Heritage Management
• Cultural Heritage and Social Networks
• Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources
• Representations
• Socio-museology
Research lines
Heritage and Social Memory
This line investigates the relationship that society establishes with cultural heritage, focusing on the interplay between remembering and forgetting which crosses through the practices and discourses on cultural heritage. The thematic areas include: heritage policies and their links with cultural, educational and human rights policies; daily management and appropriation of cultural heritage in urban and rural areas; tensions from the heritage field based on artistic production; overlapping languages and their vehicles in the production, transmission and meanings of cultural heritage; social representations of Brazil and Brazilians in museums and memory spaces; narratives and stories of life as cultural heritage; and heritage from the perspective of speeches and legal practices.
Heritage and Sustainability
This line develops interdisciplinary studies on preservation and management of cultural heritage, considering ethics, culture, development and sustainability as intersecting concepts in research that focus on public policies, environmental and archaeological heritage, material culture, cultural landscape, legislation and patrimonial knowledge and climate change.
Research Groups
Art in School
Develop research in the field of art and culture. Artistic heritage. Investigations include contemporary artistic production and analysis of curatorial discourse. The research field covers Joinville and Florianopolis and seeks to identify
influences of the major exhibitions of contemporary art in the southern region – Bienal Mercosur, Biennial VentoSul - and Bienal São Paulo on the artistic production of these municipalities.
Leader Lecturer: Nadja de Carvalho Lamas
City, Culture and Difference
This integrates students and teachers from various fields who investigate the interfaces between cultural processes and transformations of contemporary Cities. It currently unites research and studies on cities in the following areas: interventions and requalification of space in central areas; urban memories and cultural identification processes; cultural heritage and gastronomy; public policies of culture and tourism; history, memory and education for the heritage.
Faculty group leader: Ilanil Coelho
Lecturer researcher: Luana de Carvalho Silva Gusso
Cultural Heritage Interdisciplinary Studies
The Cultural Heritage Interdisciplinary Studies group is a renewal of the Regional History research group, which was formed in 2002 and now pursues studies related to cultural heritage. The group started its activities with the research project “The Public Hospital and the Social Imaginary at the End of the Century”, connected to the line of social representations and which resulted in the book "The public hospital is like that!": social representations on a public hospital at the end of the twentieth century (Sandra PL Camargo Guedes and Eleide AG Findlay, Publisher Univille, 2003). In the same year, the group published another work, this time related to the line of historical heritage: Cine Palácio: fragments of the history of the cinema in Joinville (Sandra PL Camargo Guedes and students of history Univille, Published by Univille, 2003). In addition to books, several articles have been published, produced by researchers and undergraduate and master’s scholars. From 2003 to 2006 the group developed the project Social Representations about the Historical and Pre-Colonial Heritage of the Municipalities Surrounding Babitonga Bay, which allowed greater proximity to the cities in the vicinity of Univille. This research resulted in a new and more comprehensive and interdisciplinary one aimed at the development of a historical atlas of the Babitonga Bay region. Since 2008 the group has focused on interdisciplinary research, mainly focused on cultural heritage. In 2013 the group completed a major interdisciplinary research project addressed to the cultural heritage of the island of Rita and the District of Saí, both in Santa Catarina, involving professionals and students in the areas of History, Archaeology, Architecture, Biology, Sociology and Geography. Current projects are focusing on the internationalization of research, particularly through the project Representatives of Brazil and Brazilians in Museums. Linked to the line of the group concentrated on archaeological heritage, is the project under development of Pre-Colonial Human Settlements on the East Coast of the Island of São Francisco do Sul/SC: Contribution to Coastal Archaeology and Ethnicity Studies, which also includes students from the Specialization in Archaeology course.
Leader lecturer: Sandra Paschoal Leite de Camargo Guedes
Lecturer researcher: Dione da Rocha Bandeira
Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture and Sustainability
This includes researchers involved in the interdisciplinary study of the understanding and analysis of the processes of the environmental cultural heritage constitution. The scientific production of the members of the group has prioritized research issues related to the social and political dynamics that that interact with sustainability and power discourses. The contemporary theoretical assumptions of cultural studies are incorporated into in the topics of discussion such as preservation, perception and social representation of the cultural landscape, the environmental industrial and cultural heritage and scenarios of these themes that interpose the concepts of memory and identity.
Leader lecturer: Mariluci Neis Carelli
Lecturer researcher: Euler Renato Westphal
Climatic and Environmental Governance
Among the environmental issues in vogue, climate change is an issue of central discussions in scientific and government circles. Global warming and climate change resulting from this process are some of the main contemporary environmental problems. They are, above all, a consequence of the lifestyle of our society, and are currently the largest political, economic, legal and environmental challenges of our civilization. However, despite having growing scientific and political consensus on the seriousness of such matters, they have not yet been defined and neither has the governance nor governability relating to them been agreed upon. It is no longer important to discuss whether global climate change is happening or not, what matters is what we do now regarding this issue. Based on the regional climate characteristics, the intention is to create a climate database; study the relationship between climate change and the social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts due to these changes in the region; study the impact of climate change on cities and society; and propose governance actions to preserve the environmental and cultural heritage of the city of Joinville and region.
Lecturer researcher: Paulo Ivo Koehntopp
Overlapping Language
The group deals with overlapping language processes. The conceptual proposal is to think the hybridization phenomenon of languages in contemporary society and its effects on culture. Borders, boundaries and the formation of the hybrid as a cultural locus have always occurred, but are expanding at an accelerated rate in the communication society. According to these premises, the intention is to stimulate discussion on the processes of language transformation and their effects on culture.
Leader lecturer: Taiza Mara Rauen Moraes
Cultural Heritage, Innovation and Development: Management and Protection
The focus of the group is to identify how the management and protection of heritage can be a tool for development in view of the new reality from the information society. In this new paradigm, innovation and intellectual property are key words of the productive sector, which reflects directly and indirectly on the preservation of cultural heritage in its various aspects, in the same way that culture faces new challenges in relation to its economic viability.
Leader lecturer: Patrícia de Oliveira Areas