The UFPel Ph.D. in Languages and Literatures is organized as a set of integrated courses. The goal is to provide the student with the improvement of the training they already have, allowing them to develop research studies that will lead to qualified professional activities in Languages and Literatures – according to the area of concentration and lines of research.

The syllabus structure of the Ph.D. Program provides a minimum course load of 56 credits – 40 in courses and 16 for the Dissertation, and is distributed as follows:

I – compulsory courses, 8 credits;

II – optional courses and/or Special Topics, 32 credits;

III – supervised dissertation: 4 credits.

Deadline for dissertation defense: 48 months (extendable to 60 months in exceptional cases)

Compulsory courses represent the formal and intellective support, essential for developing the dissertation. They comprise basic credits courses of the Ph.D. Program common core, which are considered to be the area of concentration.

Optional courses aim at training the student in different lines of research of the PhD Program. The Special Topics are configured as optional courses and are not regularly offered. They address specific topics that are related to the course area of concentration.

Dissertation Advising is part of the set of credits needed for the completion of the PhD studies.

Courses

 Line of research – Acquisition, Variation, and Teaching

Language Acquisition and Variation (4 hours)

Special Topics in Tools for Linguistic Data Processing (4 hours)

Special Topics in Language, Text and, Teaching (4 hours)

Special Topics in Languages in Contact (4 hours)

Special Topics in Models of Phonological Analysis (4 hours)

Special Topics in Emergentist Models of Language Acquisition (4 hours)

Special Topics in New Perspectives on Language Learning (4 hours)

Special Topics in Experimental Methodologies: Ultrasonography (4 hours)

Special Topics in Phonological Theory: Acquisition and Variation (4 hours)

Special Topics in Language and Education (4 hours)

Special Topics in Language Learning and Complexity (4 hours)

Special Topics in Applied Linguistics (4 hours)

Special Topics in Multimodality and Language Teaching – (2 hours)

Special Topics in Quantitative Methodology of Data Analysis – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Acoustic Phonetics – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literacy and Reading – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Phonology and Language Acquisition – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Phonology – Nonlinear Models – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Language Acquisition Studies – (4 hours)

Special Topics in Phonology – Articulatory Phonology – (4 hours)

Line of research –Text, Discourse, and Social Relations

Text and Discourse (4 hours)

Special Topics in Language and Social Interaction (4 hours)

Special Topics in “From Epistemology of Enunciation Theory to the Proposition of a Metasemantics” (4  hours)

Special Topics in Internet Research Methodology (4 hours)

Special Topics in Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication (4 hours)

Special Topics in Media, Discourse, and Social Media Analysis I (4 hours)

Special Topics in Media, Discourse, and Social Media Analysis II (4 hours)

Special Topics in Discourse Analysis: Politics in Discourse, and Discourse in Politics (4 hours)

Special Topics in Reading, Interpretation, and Meaning (4 hours)

Special Topics in Discourse Analysis: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Principles (4 hours)

Special Topics in Body and Discourse (4 hours)

Special Topics in Dialogic Theory and Analysis: Analytical Parameters (4 hours)

Line of research – Literature, Culture, and Translation

Literature and Contemporary Theories (4 hours)

Advanced Studies in Literary Studies (4 hours)

Research Seminar in Literary Studies (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literary Studies and History (4 hours)

Special Topics in Comparatism and Intertextuality (4 hours)

Special Topics in 21th Century Brazilian Literature (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literature and Cultural Borders (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literatures and Memory (4 hours)

Special Topics in Word and Image (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literary Systems and Cultural Processes (4 hours)

Special Topics in Poetry Theory, and Criticism (4 hours)

Special Topics in Literature, Culture, and Translation (4 hours)

Special Topics in Translation Theory (4 hours)