Graduate Program Coordination Offices
The academic coordination of graduate programs is the responsibility of the following councils:
I – full council;
II – delegate council.
The administrative coordination of graduate programs is the responsibility of:
A coordinator and a deputy coordinator, members of the faculty body at UFSC and elected among the permanent faculty members of the program, in the manner foreseen in its respective bylaws, with a minimum term of two years and a maximum of four, one reelection allowed.
The Coordinator is responsible for:
I – calling and presiding over council meetings;
II – preparing program schedules, respecting the academic calendar and submitting them for approval by the delegate council;
III – preparing the resource deployment plan for the program, submitting it for approval by the delegate council;
IV – preparing annual activity and resource deployment reports, submitting them to the full council;
V – submitting, for approval by the delegate council, the names of the faculty members who will be part of:
- a) the selection committee for admission of students in the program;
- b) the scholarship or program management committee;
- c) the faculty accreditation and reaccreditation committee;
VI – deciding over examining committees for qualifiying exams and thesis/dissertation defenses;
VII – deciding over the appointment of thesis/dissertation co-supervisors made by current supervisors;
VIII – defining, along with heads of departments or equivalent administrative units and undergraduate program coordinators, the courses that may be eligible for participation of graduate students enrolled in the “Estágio de Docência” [Teaching Internship] course;
IX – deciding ad referendum over matters within the competence of the delegate or full council, in cases of urgency or nonexistence of quorum, the decision being obligatorily examined by the respective committee in 30 (thirty) days;
X – monitoring, executing and evaluating the program’s activities together with the Prorectorate for Graduate Programs (PROPG);
XI – coordinating all activities of the program under their responsibility;
XII – representing the program, inside and outside UFSC, in the appropriate situations;
XIII – delegating competence for executing specific tasks;
XIV – upholding the compliance of this normative resolution and of the program’s bylaws and internal rules;
XV – signing the letter of commitment executed between a student and a granting party for elective internships, as provided for in the curricular structure of the program, in the terms of Law no. 11.788, of 25 September 2008;
XVI – examining the semi-annual or annual reports from master’s and doctoral students.
Program Coordination Offices
