INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATED HUMANITIS STUDIES IS A REALITY AT CCHLA – project was unanimously approved at the last CONSEPE meeting –

   The humanities community reaches the end of the year with yet another reason to celebrate. After the grade of 4 in the History Course – Distance Learning Degree – with its consequent recognition by INEP, the UFRN Teaching, Research and Extension Council has just approved – unanimously, the proposal to create the Institute of Integrated Humanitarian Studies, of our CCHLA.
   According to CCET professor Jeanete Alves Moreira, rapporteur of the proposal, “the project aims to fulfill basic activities, carrying out research, thus contributing to the internationalization of the educational institution”.
  On the subject, the rector of UFRN, Ângela Maria Paiva Cruz, said that the institute is a way of giving relevance and showing society the importance of studies in the human sciences, “since research in other areas requires social support to establish assumptions and consequences in people's lives”.
   For the director of CCHLA/UFRN, professor Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues, the Institute of Integrated Studies Humanitas is a great victory for the area, with the space serving for “the promotion and strengthening of the vision of the humanities in society, whether in the spheres of the State apparatus and political governance, or in the sphere of social life”.
   The Humanitas Institute will also serve to promote long-term strategic studies, defining future scenarios for the state, regions, municipalities and their activities, in addition to offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses (future projects), workshops, free courses, promoting the expansion of UFRN's insertion and protagonism in the state and national public debate, also contributing to the structuring of monitoring, analysis and information systems (Observatories), seeking greater coherence and improving the impact of institutional management.
   The Humanitas Institute will use physical spaces in the CCHLA administrative building, will have existing infrastructure such as the Central and Sector libraries, classrooms and laboratories, with permanent UFRN professors, foreign visitors, scholarship holders from PNPD/PPGCS/UFRN on staff. Furthermore, it brings together several research groups and national and international partnerships.
   The planned actions are offering elective courses for undergraduate courses; free courses, Scientific Writing Workshop in Humanities; longitudinal research; creation of the Human Sciences Research Observatory in the Northeast; creation of an undergraduate course to be designed and creation of Postgraduate Programs (academic, professional, latu sensu, stricto sensu).
More information by email at humanitas.iea@gmail.com