CULTURE, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND BORDERSIN MERCOSUR
Subjectsyllabus: Territory and borders, demarcation and national sensibilities, identities and memory, shared heritage, heritage and development. Hybrid cultures and mixedheritage.Analysis of the valuation processes of cultural heritagesuch as national borders or shared elementssuch as cultural heritage shared among two or more nations.

SPACE, MEMORY AND PERCEPTION OF LANDSCAPE
Subjectsyllabus: Definition of the concepts ofspace, landscape, territory, region and place. Analysis of the theoretical views of the perception of landscape.Study of the reproduction of social relations and its relation with urban memory.Perceptionof landscapes and elaboration of mental maps.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEMORY
Subjectsyllabus: Image, memory and history. The emergence of photography as globalartificial memory.Relationship between photography and individual and collective memory.Photographic collections and social memory.History of photography and the visual memory of the world.

MEMORY AND IDENTITY
Subjectsyllabus: Memory Systems; Entrepreneurs of Memory; individual memory and collective memory; Memory and fiction; Henri Bergson, memory and the unconscious; Maurice Halbwachs and the task of memory; Collective memory; Places of memory; conflicts of memory; Memory and oblivion; Victimization and the search for validation and recognition; Memory and violence, memory and usage of the past.

RESEARCHMETHODOLOGY
Subjectsyllabus: The nature of science and scientific research.The complexities of scientific research and the worldof scientific production.Scientists and researchers.Interdisciplinary research: problems, hypotheses, andvariables. Types of research and observation methods.Literature and scientific writing.Qualities of scientific textsand normalization.Social aspects of interdisciplinary research in applied social sciences.

ORALITY AND ORAL ARCHIVES
Subjectsyllabus: Orality, tradition and memory. Discourse and narrative in the analysis of oral testimony.Oral history and subjectivity.Applications of Oral History.Oral documents and oral archives. Debate surrounding truth and fiction in the usage of oral histories. Contemporary experiences of the use of oral testimony as cultural heritage.

CULTURAL HERITAGEORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
Subjectsyllabus: This course proposes tostudy thepolitical, institutional and administrative legal instruments and procedures relatedto the conservation of cultural heritage. It tacklesissues related to cultural heritagemanagement, regulations and rules, social responsibilities, inventory of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, a and cultural asset access methods.

ORGANIZATION AND PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES
Subjectsyllabus: Study of different types and purposes of documentary collections, study of documents with emphasis on public and private archival collections. Methods of archive analysis and review.history and legislationof memorial institutions: archives, museums and libraries, inventories of intangible cultural heritage. Oral history sources and archives.Inventories and collections of Oral History .

CULTURAL HERITAGE:COMPARISON OFINSTITUTIONS, LEGISLATION AND STANDARDIZATION
Subjectsyllabus: Analysis of the primaryinstitutional, normative and legislative legal instruments that regulate the task of management andconservation of elements of cultural heritage. Legislation, penalties and jurisprudence related to cultural heritage. International documents and national legislation; Traditional knowledge and copyrights.

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION STRATEGIES
Subjectsyllabus: The discipline examines cultural heritagefroma diachronic perspective, different contemporary varieties of cultural heritage, current international legal instruments concerning heritage, cultural heritage management theory and the mechanisms for preservation and promotionin diversecontexts. Cultural heritage management froma historical perspective.Current cultural heritage management challenges. Social actors and processes of declaration and institutionalization of cultural heritage.

PUBLIC POLICIES OF MEMORY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN MERCOSUR
Subjectsyllabus: Based on fundamental concepts aboutcultural heritage, the course coverscase studies, questions and reflections on Brazilian and Spanish-American legislation regarding the preservation of cultural heritage . It highlights the history of cultural heritage public policy in Brazil and in the Mercosur region (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay), problematizing contemporary contexts and situations, based on theoretical and applied texts, as well as examiningrelateddocuments.

CONSERVATION AND RESTORATIONTECHNIQUES
Subjectsyllabus: Study of the degradation processes ofmaterials,monuments,and components ofbuildingsand monuments officially declared as cultural heritage. Survey and characterization of varying pathologies: moisture, fissures and cracks, and the detachment of coatings,Surveytechniques methods, diagnosis and intervention. Study of special materials and techniques employedin the restoration process: stone, wood, metal, plaster, lime, cement, mortar, etc.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
Subjectsyllabus: Tourism, identity and usageof the past. Territories, communities and culturally-centeredtourism.Study of the potential of uses of cultural heritage as sustainable development.Tourism and rural revival.Cultural heritage influenced by tourism and contemporary dilemmasof the managementof memory-related issues..