Um olhar sobre o curso de ciências ambientais da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The increase of climate change and environmental problems in recent years have aroused the concern of society with the environment. Given this concern, it has been created undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the environmental area to meet the need for professionals in the area. The course of Environmental Sciences was created in order to fill this regard. For being an interdisciplinary course, it has a variety of areas of interest, which makes it attractive for the job market. For being a recent course compared to others who study the nature, such as geology, biology, geography, among others, suffers from a methodological deficiency as to which category of analysis of nature address. The aim of this study was to analyze the UFC Environmental Science course in order to evaluate aspects of the course, such as dropout rates; realized orientations and the perceptions of the students and graduates of the course, and, in addition, discover which categories of analysis are being used by students in their dissertation. Through questionnaires and reading of the work, it was possible to get an overview of the course and the prevailing categories. It was noticed that despite the dropout rates have decreased in the last year, there are still improvements to be performed as a physical structure of the LABOMAR building. Furthermore, it was concluded that the UFC Environmental Science course use the categories of Landscape and Territory of sciences. Thus, this research assisted as a starting point requiring an update, from time to time, so that the course has control of the graduates, addressed categories and improvement of course throughout to the job market.