A Universidade Federal de Santa Maria e sua relação com a valorização do patrimônio cultural: um olhar para o curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo.

Abstract

The present thesis aims to investigate how the Undergraduate Courses in the Federal University of Santa Maria, especially the Course of Architecture and Urban Design has been working the issue of cultural heritage. This verification was made through an analysis of recent curricular changes in the various courses of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). Subsequently I performed an investigation in the curricular organization of the last two decades (1990 and 2000) the courses involved with the Graduation Program of Cultural Heritage. Finally, we performed further analysis of the Architecture and Urbanism, through semi-structured interviews with four (4) teachers of this course, directly involved with the courses and also through an analysis of the final-year undergraduate students from 2004 to 2009. Thus, based on the data of this research it was possible to establish a comprehensive systematization points referring to the presence of the theme of Cultural Heritage in graduate courses at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), but also produce a more detailed analysis on how the course of Architecture and Urban Design has been building his actions and organizations in the midst of curricular context. Thus, what I realized is that the studies and researches at the University must be more present in the society of Santa Maria. Situation, that which comes to be conceived and crafted in 2010 in the Council for the Coordination of Historical and Artistic Heritage (COMPHIC), where actions and proposals for heritage education began to be thought about and worked in order to implement this effective participation, knowledge and interest of the community in the assets of the town of Santa Maria.