The Graduate Program in Letters (PPGL) at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), established in 1987 by ordinance 1484/86, was one of the institution's first master's degree programs and first in northern region of Brazil in area of Linguistics and Literature. Our areas of concentration are mixed and combine studies in linguistics and literature. Since 2013, we have been offering master's and doctoral programs. Currently, the PPGL operates in an exclusive four-story building located on the Guamá Campus in Belém, state of Pará. It is the only one with a grade of 6.0 in the northern region in the last four-year evaluation (2017-2020).
The PPGL UFPA currently represents the main reference for Graduate Studies in area of Linguistics and Literature in the Amazon, a vast, heterogeneous region whose borders go beyond Brazilian territory. The region is made up of a plurality of subjects. According to the latest IBGE census (2022), the Brazilian Amazon alone is home to more than 17 million inhabitants, spread across large and small cities, large and small rural properties, riverbanks, indigenous lands, and quilombola remnants.
MISSION AND OBJECTIVES
The history of the present of the Amazonian populations, their transformations and linguistic, literary and cosmological diversity, intensely present in the Program's actions, are intertwined with the asymmetries of the processes of colonization and globalization of knowledge. In this sense, the mission, challenges and achievements of the PPGL are in line with the main mission of UFPA: “to produce, socialize and transform knowledge in the Amazon to educate citizens capable of promoting the construction of an inclusive and sustainable society.”
The General Objective of the Program is to educate highly qualified human resources in the Area of Linguistics and Literature, committed to building an environmentally sustainable planet, who respect ethnic-racial, gender and religious diversity and contributes to the reduction of economic and social asymmetries.
Specific Objectives are:
a) to make visible the different language realities of indigenous populations and traditional communities in the Amazon, the language policies in which they are involved and their possibilities in the contemporary world.
b) to broaden the academic debate on the challenges of education in Portuguese-speaking countries, problematizing the concept of Lusophony.
c) to problematize the epistemologies that guide research, extension and teaching activities in the field of language studies with a view to respecting local knowledge, without disregarding the global perspectives of knowledge production.
d) to encourage research with different perspectives on orality, with its educational, intercultural and intermedial possibilities, considering the knowledge and power relations in which they are involved.
e) to promote research in linguistics and literature in the northern region, acting as a partner in the consolidation of other programs, in the elaboration of policies for the development of higher education at regional, national and international levels.
f) stimulate the national and international circulation of knowledge produced in the region, encouraging the mobility of students and faculty through partnerships with established and consolidating national and international research centers.
g) Encourages research, teaching and extension activities committed to diversity and the inclusion and retention of people historically excluded from higher education and postgraduate studies in Brazil.
In period 2021-2024, our research, extension and teaching actions sought to be guided by the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations
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and by the 03 adjacent goals proposed by the Brazilian Government
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