History of the CSE
The School of Socio-Economic Sciences (CSE) is one of the oldest at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, having being born out of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the old Administration and Finance Program. At first, not all programs were located at the Trindade Campus, but this reality changed along the decades, especially after the University Reform, which started in UFSC in 1969.
With the Reform, existing Faculties started to be divided in departments and programs, taking part of their autonomy and starting an integration process among areas of Applied Social Sciences. As such, the old Faculty of Economic Sciences was extinguished to give space for the Economics, Administration and Accounting Science programs. These would form the School of Socio-Economic Sciences, along with the Law program, which would later have its own place in the School of Law. Following came the incorporation of the Social Work program, which also had its own Faculty.
CSE was established as such in the 70s, as a result of the University Reform. Along the next decades, considerable transformations made part of the expansion processes by which the school’s programs underwent. This includes the creation of undergraduate programs, the establishing of graduate certificate programs connected to the school’s subject areas, and a growing pursuit by its faculty to deepen their expertise at national and foreign institutions. This was also the moment when student initiatives in the university were born, like the junior enterprises, including the one known today as Ação Júnior at CSE. In the first decade of the 2000s, the academic expansion of CSE was still ongoing and new graduate programs were created. An important mark is the founding of the undergraduate program in International Relations, in 2008, and of the master’s program in International Relations two years later.
