1. CURRICULAR STRUCTURE:
The Postgraduate Program’s disciplines are divided into three groups:
1.1 Academic Practices: Disciplines of universal education, directed toward student preparation for the exercise of the academic activities of research and teaching. The disciplines are common to the two lines of research, taken in joint classes, some of them being mandatory and others optional. The mandatory disciplines are offered annually and include: those of basic theoretical education (master’s), of research methodology (master’s), and of directed production (doctorate). Seven disciplines are provided in this group:
Master’s Degree: mandatory for the master’s and common to the two lines of research.
Doctorate: optional for the doctorate. However, the Theoretical Problems in Communication discipline is mandatory for doctoral students who have not obtained their master’s in communication.
• THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION (1st semester)
Study of the basic concepts, themes, and authors that constitute the field of communication. Theories of communication and problems of technique, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.
Basic Bibliography:
COSTA LIMA, L. (ed). Teoria da cultura de massa. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1990.
CURRAN, J.; GUREVITCH, M. (Eds.). Mass Media and Society. London: Oxford Un. Press, 2000.
FRANÇA, V.; HOHLFELDT, A.; MARTINO, L.C. (eds.). Teorias da comunicação: conceitos, escolas e tendências. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2001.
GITLIN, T. Mídia sem limites: como a torrente de imagens e sons domina nossas vidas. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira, 2003.
KELLNER, D. A cultura da mídia: estudos culturais: identidade e política entre o moderno e o pós-moderno. Bauru, SP: EDUSC, 2001.
MATTELART, A.; MATTELART M. História das teorias da comunicação. São Paulo: Loyola, 1999.
SILVERSTONE, R. Por que estudar a mídia? São Paulo: Loyola, 2002.
SODRÉ, M. Antropológica do Espelho: uma teoria da comunicação linear e em rede. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2002.
• COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS (2nd semester)
The theoretical field of communication and the main tendencies in current research. The link among theoretical assumptions, delimitation of objects, and formulation of hypotheses. Research methods and techniques in the Social and Human Sciences and their applications in the field of communication. The course is developed according to the dominant themes in the research projects of enrolled students.
Basic Bibliography:
BACHELARD, G. A Epistemologia. São Paulo: Ed. 70, 2006.
BOURDIEU, P. Coisas Ditas. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1990.
BRAGA, J. L. O problema da pesquisa – como começar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, Unisinos, available at: http://www.unisinos.br/principal/ > Mestrado/Doutorado >Alunos > Comunicação > Elabore seu Projeto.
FOUCAULT, M. Arqueologia do Saber. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2006.
KUHN, T. A Estrutura das Revoluções Científicas. São Paulo: Editora Perspectiva, 1975.
LOPES, M. I. V. de (ed.). Epistemologia da Comunicação. São Paulo: Loyola, 2003.
Doctorate: mandatory and exclusive
• DIRECTED PRODUCTION (3rd semester)
To stimulate student scientific production. Participation in two national or international events with paper presentations and publication in annals; publication of articles in national and/or international periodicals and/or books.
Basic Bibliography: to be defined in a joint manner with the research developed by the students.
Doctorate: optional and exclusive
• DIRECTED TEACHING PRACTICE (mandatory only for fellows)
To contribute to teacher education, with a view to the development of competencies related to teaching in higher education. To incentivize the integration between the postgraduate and undergraduate programs. To provide students contact with the different stages of the pedagogical process, from planning until testing, bearing in mind the globality of the experience. The activity will be accompanied and graded by the advisor.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
•ADVANCED SEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION I
Seminar of an investigative character centered on a specific theme related to research developed by the program.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
•ADVANCED SEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION II
Seminar of a monographic character centered on a relevant author related to research developed by the program.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
• NEW PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION THEORY
Study of emerging theories in the field of communication studies and new perspectives of investigation about communication phenomena.
Basic Bibliography: Variable according to offering.
1.2 Basic Fields: Disciplines referring to the basic fields of investigation in each line of research. Every semester, each line should offer at least one discipline of this group. They are taken in joint classes of master’s and doctoral students. The new course syllabi provide nine disciplines of this type, four of them in the Aesthetics and Communication line; and five in the Media and Sociocultural Mediations line:
• COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINARY
Analysis of the concepts, representations, and narratives of the technological imaginaries in contemporary cultural productions. The production of technological imaginaries in their relation to specific sociocultural environments. Media, technologies, and production of imaginaries.
Basic Bibliography:
HUYSSEN, A. Seduzidos pela memória. Rio de Janeiro: Artiplano, 2000.
LÉVY, P. Cibercultura. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 1999.
MACHADO, A. Máquina e imaginário: o desafio das poéticas tecnológicas. São Paulo: EdUSP.1993
PARENTE, A. (ed.). Imagem-máquina: a era das tecnologias do virtual. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. 34. 1993.
TUCHERMAN, I. Breve História do corpo e de seus monstros. Lisboa: Ed. Passagens, 1999
VIRILIO, P. A Máquina de Visão. São Paulo: José Olympio, 1994.
• COMMUNICATION AND AESTHETICS
Analysis of the artistic languages and aesthetic theories of communication. Studies of the relations between art and media productions. Aesthetic theories and communication theories. Media and poetics.
Basic Bibliography:
BENJAMIN, W. Obras escolhidas: magia e técnica, arte e política. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985
CAUNE, J. Esthétique de la communication. Paris: PUF, 1997.
ECO, U. Obra Aberta. Forma e indeterminação nas poéticas contemporâneas. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 1995.
GUIMARÃES, C. et al (eds.). Comunicacão e Experiência Estética. Belo Horizonte: Ed. UFMG, 2006
PARRET, H. A estética da comunicação: além da pragmática. Campinas: Ed. Unicamp, 1997.
VALVERDE, M. (ed.). Estética da Comunicacao. Salvador: Quartett, 2007
• COMMUNICATION AND CYBERCULTURE
Study of cyberculture and of telematic networks of communication with an emphasis on their aesthetic and subjectivity production aspects. Analysis of the impact of interactivity and other aspects of digital media on contemporary culture, particularly in the field of communication and in the production and reception of artistic and cultural works.
Basic Bibliography:
CASTELLS, M. A sociedade em rede. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra, 1999.
HARAWAY, D. Simians, Cyborgs and women. London: Routledge, 1991.
LEMOS, A. Cibercultura. Tecnologia e Vida Social na Cultura Contemporânea, Porto Alegre: Sulina, 2002.
LÉVY, P. Cyberculture, Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 1997.
NEGROPONTE, N. Vida Digital. São Paulo: Cia. das Letras, 1995.
PARENTE, A. Tramas da Rede. Novas dimensões políticas, estéticas e produtivas da comunicação. Sulina, 2004)
• COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SUBJECTIVITY
Media and meaning production. Signification in contemporary technological environments. Semantics and semiotics of media. Media languages and processes of subjectification. Theoretical and methodological problems in image and discourses analysis.
Basic Bibliography:
CHANEY, L.; SCHAWARTZ, V. O Cinema e invenção da vida moderna. São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2004.
DELEUZE, G.; GUATARRI, F. Mil Platôs. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 1997.
FOUCAULT, M. A Ordem do Discurso. Rio de Janeiro: Loyola, 2005.
JAGUARIBE, B. O Choque do Real. Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, 2007.
LAZZARATO, M; NEGRI, T. Trabalho Imaterial: formas de vida e produção de subjetividade. Rio de Janeiro: DP&A, 2001.
SLOTERDIJK, P. O Desprezo das Massas. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2002.
1.3 Special Topics: Disciplines in which special studies are performed on the themes that aggregate important reflections on the research developed in each of the program’s lines. They are taken in joint classes of master’s and doctoral students. They are all optional. Each semester, at least two of the disciplines that are part of the course syllabi of each line of research should be offered. There are eighteen disciplines referring to special topics, eight in the Aesthetics and Communication Technologies line, ten in the Media and Sociocultural Mediations line:
• ART, MEDIA, AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
Theories of aesthetic experience and their applications in the field of artistic and media production. New technologies, technological convergence, and artistic creation. The relations between art and communication in contemporary society.
Basic Bibliography:
ARANTES, P. Arte e Mídia: Perspectivas da Estética Digital. São Paulo: Senac, 2005
BENJAMIN, W. Obras escolhidas, magia e técnica, arte e política. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1985
DEWEY, J. Art as Experience. New York: Capricorn, 1958.
DOMINGUES, D. (ed.) A arte no século XXI: a humanização das tecnologias. São Paulo: UNESP. 1997
GIANETTI, C. (ed). Ars Telematica. Lisboa: Relógio D’Agua, 1998.
GOMBRICH, E. H. Arte e Ilusão. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1995.
• COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND ETHICS
Theories of technique and technology. Problems of history and philosophy of technique and their relation to communication phenomena. The place of technique and technology in modern and contemporary thought. Ethics and communication in a technological and generally mediated society.
Basic Bibliography:
ADORNO, T.; H., Max. A dialética do esclarecimento. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar Editores, 1985
BAUDRILLARD, J. Simulacros e Simulação. Lisboa: Relógio D’Água, 1991.
HEIDEGGER, M. Essais et conferences. Paris: Gallimard, 1980.
LATOUR, B. We have never been modern. San Francisco: Harvard University Press, 1993
LEVY, P. As Tecnologias da inteligência. São Paulo: Ed. 34, 1995.
• COMMUNICATION, ETHICS, AND POLITICS
Study of the relations between aesthetics and politics in contemporary society. Media, political imaginary, and public space. Rhetorical and persuasive functions in media languages. New communication technologies and their impact on governability and political action.
Basic Bibliography:
AGAMBEN, G. Homo Sacer: O poder soberano e a vida nua. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2004.
BENJAMIN, W. Obras escolhidas: magia e técnica, arte e política. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1987.
HUYSSEN, A. Present Pasts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.
NEGRI, T.; HARDT, M. Império. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2001
RANCIERE, J. A Partilha do Sensível. São Paulo: 34, 2005
WILHELM, A. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• COMMUNICATION, SUBJECTIVITY, AND SPECTATORIALITY
Theories of spectatoriality and their applications in the field of communication. Spectacle and spectatoriality in media. Communication, device, and subjectivity.
Basic Bibliography:
DEBORD, G. Sociedade do Espetáculo. Rio de Janeiro: Contraponto, 1997.
DELEUZE, G. Francis Bacon: Lógica da Sensação. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2007.
CRARY, J. Suspensions of perception. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 2000.
COMOLLI, J. Voir et Pouvoir. Paris: Éditions Verdier, 2004.
MARTÍN-BARBERO, J. Os exercícios do ver. Ed. Senac São Paulo, 2001.
• KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
The influence of communication technologies in processes of knowledge production and of information accumulation and diffusion. The relations among contemporary communication technologies, scientific production, and epistemology.
Basic Bibliography:
CASTELLS, M. A Sociedade em Rede. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2007.
CASTELLS, M. A Galáxia da Internet. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2003.
BACHELARD, G. A epistemologia. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2006.
LEVY, P. As tecnologias da inteligência. Rio de Janeiro: 34, 1993.
• MEDIA, POETICS, AND NARRATIVE STUDIES
Theories of narrative, discourse, and poetics and their application in the study of media and its languages. Narrative function and poetic function in media in general and in audiovisual production in particular. Temporality and memory in communication phenomena.
Basic Bibliography:
CERTEAU, M. A invenção do quotidiano. As artes de fazer. Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2000.
DELEUZE, G. Proust e os Signos. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2006.
JAMESON, F. As Marcas do visível. Rio de Janeiro: Graal, 1999.
PARENTE, A. Narrativa e modernidade - os cinemas não narrativos do pós-guerra. Campinas: Papirus Editora, 2000.
SLOTERDIJK, P. Regras para o Parque Humano. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2000.
• THEORIES OF THE IMAGE AND VISUALITY
Theories of the Image and Visuality and their relations to theory and objects in the field of communication. Regimes and devices of visuality and their relations to media, to the production of subjectivity, and to artistic expression.
Basic Bibliography:
AUMONT, J. A imagem. Campinas: Papirus, 1993.
CRARY, J. Techniques of the observer. Cambridge (Mass): MIT Press, 1995.
FOSTER, H. Vision and visuality. New York: The New Press, 1999.
JAY, M.; BRENNAN, T. (Orgs.). Vision in context: historical and contemporary perspectives on sight. Londres: Routledge,1996.
VIRILIO, P. A Máquina de Visão. Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, 1994.
• THEORY AND ANALYSIS OF AUDIOVISUAL WORKS
Theories of cinema and filmic analysis methods. Cinema and audiovisual historiography and criticism. Challenges and theoretical and analytical problems in contemporary audiovisual production.
Basic Bibliography:
AUMONT, J., BERGALA, A., MARIE, M., VERNET, M. A estética do filme. Campinas: Papirus Editora, 1995.
DELEUZE, G. Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1983
DELEUZE, G Cinéma 2. L’image-temps. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985
NICHOLS, B. La Representación de la realidad. Barcelona: Paidós, 1997.
SHAW, J.; WEBEL, P. Future Cinema. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
XAVIER, I. O Discurso Cinematográfico. São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 2005.
2. MANDATORY CONTACT HOURS
Master’s degree: 360 hours/24 credits: 6 disciplines of 4 credits, totaling 360 hours.
Doctorate: 720 hours/48 credits: 12 disciplines of 4 credits, totaling 720 hours.
Relevant Observations:
a) Doctoral students can request exemption from only three course disciplines, using disciplines already completed in the master’s;
b) The contact hours of the disciplines will be met by the faculty and students, by combining expository classes and directed studies;
c) master’s students will complete two semesters of Thesis Research and doctoral students five semesters of Dissertation Research.
3. DISTRIBUTION OF COURSE SYLLABI:
