Análise comparativa dos Projetos Pedagógicos de Cursos e Matrizes Curriculares dos cursos de Licenciatura em Química de universidades federais da região Nordeste

Abstract

Chemistry as a science has been developing more and more, since the times of alchemy. The degree courses in chemistry were created in Brazil in the 1930s and arrived in Paraíba about three decades later, being offered by the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), which had its Pedagogical Project of a course approved in 2006, a document that guides the profile of the graduate and contains the curriculum matrix of the course. As they are important documents for teacher training, this work aims to analyze and compare the PPC's and curricular matrices of the degree courses in chemistry offered by federal universities in the northeast. The results show that there is a discrepancy between the highest and lowest total hours of courses in the universities studied, with a difference of 750h. The number of total mandatory subjects varies from 31 to 49 and the number of pedagogical subjects varies between 7 and 21. The Federal University of Pernambuco reserves 43% of its total workload for pedagogical subjects, while UFMA allocates only 23% . Most of the courses analyzed here are divided into 8 semesters and in their final periods disciplines related to the course conclusion work (TCC) are observed, except at UFRN, which does not have any workload destined for the conclusion work, according to your PPC. Of the 9 analyzed courses, seven have 4 supervised internships in their curricular matrices, the others have 2 internships. The vast majority have these internships starting in the fifth period of the course, while other universities start these internships a little later, as is the case of UFC, which has its first internship starting in the 8th period. It is observed that the profile of graduates in these universities is different, even if the institutions are part of the same region.