The course lasts 2 years (4 semesters).

To obtain the title of master, the student must take 30 credits (18 credits of mandatory subjects and 12 credits of elective subjects). In addition, the student must enroll in the LET 3101 subject (according to the orientation of the coordination support team) to take the English language proficiency exam.

Yes. If the student wants to take advantage of credit for courses taken before joining the Master’s, he must access the Academic Requirements system through the website:

www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/sap/

On the website, the student must select the option “use of external credits”. For this application, it will be necessary to send the syllabus of the subject studied, workload and bibliography. The documentation sent will be evaluated by the course coordination, which will forward a response through the system.

The total number of credits used cannot exceed 1/3 of the number of credits provided for training in the course. The use of credits will be evaluated according to the time the course was taken, the evolution of knowledge in the area of knowledge and the academic quality of the Graduate Program that offered it.

Moodle is PUC Rio’s online learning environment, where subject materials are deposited, such as readings, syllabi and videos of classes, when they take place remotely. To access Moodle, you must enter the site and log in with your DAR registration number and password: https://ead.puc-rio.br/loginccead/ . The student will have access to the materials during the entire period that he/she is enrolled at PUC-Rio.

We recommend that students choose their advisor from the moment they join the course. The choice should be made according to the theme that the student intends to work on and the professor’s area of expertise. If the student does not choose an advisor, the Graduate Commission for the course will direct the student to indicate an advisor by the end of the 1st period of the course.

It is mandatory, according to PUC regulation, that the main supervisor be a professor of the program. Co-supervision can be provided by researchers, specialists and professors from other institutions and programs.

It is essential that the advisor is working in the line of research that fits the theme of the work that the student will develop. The supervisor must have a doctoral degree.

When closing orientation, the student must notify the course secretariat so that the registration can be carried out.

The Course’s Postgraduate Commission is made up of the course’s coordinators plus three professors representing the faculty and two students representing the student body, one representative of each class in progress. The process of choosing teaching representatives is done by the coordination and the current members of the commission, and the selection process of class representatives is done by each class that nominates and elects its representative.

No. However, at the end of the 3rd period, students must send the final work project, approved by the advisor, for analysis by the Graduate Commission. The project template is available in the student handbook. The project will be analyzed by two reviewers who will issue independent opinions on the work. The opinions are sent to each student and their respective supervisor and contribute to the improvement of the work. If the project has conditional approval, the student must make the indicated adjustments if sent for further analysis by the Commission.

The student can cancel disciplines up to the deadline established in the school calendar for each semester. To do so, you must send your full name, DAR enrollment, name and code of the course you wish to cancel to the course secretary. Canceling a course does not affect the student’s CR, as the course is removed from the record.

At the end of each semester, evaluation forms are sent for each discipline. It is very important to answer each one of them so that improvements can be made. The evaluation results are sent to the professors, analyzed by the coordination and from that, lessons learned are listed that we share with the entire faculty to improve future experiences.

At the end of the 3rd period, students must deliver a complete final work project. The expected model for writing the project can be found in the student manual and can be requested from the course secretariat.

The project must be approved by the advisor and sent to the course secretariat via email. The work will be reviewed by two members of the Master’s Postgraduate committee within a period of approximately 40 days. After this deadline, the student will receive an opinion from each reviewer on the points of attention that must be adjusted in the work and potential that can be explored.

If the student is not approved, the committee will ask the student to make adjustments and send the project for a new review. If the work is approved, the student can proceed with the research together with his advisor without resorting again to the commission’s analysis. All communication related to project evaluation must take place via email.

The work must be sent on the date informed by the secretary of the course and to the e-mail informed in the period in question.

If the student is unable to submit it on the date stipulated by the committee, the student must send an email to the course secretariat informing the justification and stipulating a new deadline for submission. The deadline and justification will be evaluated by the commission that will return with the decision on the new date for sending the project.

The ethics committee meets to evaluate the protocols on the first Thursday of the month (except on public holidays, which are postponed by one week). Protocols must be forwarded fifteen days in advance of the monthly meeting. Thus, if there is no intercurrence in this procedure, the response deadline is thirty days after sending the documentation.

In experiences with previous classes, it was observed that the delay can reach three or more months. The Committee is judicious, and if the project is not well explained and the above issues are not considered, the project returns for adjustments and must be submitted again for a new analysis by the committee. It is recommended to consider this deadline in the research schedule and send as much in advance as possible.

The procedure to access the PUC Rio library is to deliver a document with a photo at the library reception or the DAR card itself. The library provides books, bibliographic bases and training to use bibliographic bases that support research.

All information about the library is available at:

www.dbd.puc-rio.br/sitenovo/#aviso

You can configure your computer to access the bibliographic databases made available by DBD remotely. Check the instructions in the link below:

testeremoto.dbd.puc-rio.br/sitenovo/area-restricta.php?a=1

The Master’s class schedule is sent by the course secretariat before the 1st week of class. And the detailed schedule with themes, readings and class modality (remote or face-to-face) is delivered by the teacher of each subject.

The file with the general schedule can also be found on the master’s website: http://mestradosustentabilidade.usuarios.rdc.puc-rio.br/ in the tab informs > for students.

The Student of the Professional Master’s Degree in Sustainability Science has two possibilities for final course work. The first is to deliver the traditional master’s thesis on the researched topic as a final product. The second option is to develop a creative product + a dissertation.

Regardless of the final product chosen, the work must be accompanied by a short dissertation, containing the report of the entire process of building the product, including the contextualization of the research problem, delimitation and relevance of the study, in addition to the theoretical framework, methodology adopted and results. This report must be prepared as a separate document for the chosen product.

In this way, students have two model options for their final work:

1. Creative product (according to capes list or coordination approval) + small dissertation describing the product construction process.
2. Traditional Dissertation on the chosen topic.

 

It is essential that dissertations observe the norms for theses and dissertations established by PUC-Rio *, especially regarding the bibliographic reference and methodological rigor.

Note: The dissertation has no minimum number of pages, especially if it has an associated product.

* Available at : www.puc-rio.br/ensinopesq/ccpg/apresentacao_ted.html

All technical-technological products (PTTs) provided by CAPES will be considered as final works. The course area (Environmental Sciences) considers 10 types of PTTs as the main ones for the evaluation of the Graduate Program:

1. Letter, map or similar;
2. Professional Training Course;
3. Company or Innovative Social Organization;
4. Manual/Protocol;
5. Courseware;
6. Patent deposited, granted or licensed;
7. Technical/technological Bibliographic Product;
8. Process/Technology and Product/Non-Patentable Material;
9. Software/Application;
10. Social Technology .

Yes, in extraordinary cases. To request the extension of the defense, the student must pay attention to the deadline established in the school calendar and open an application for the extension of the defense on the website: www.ccpa.puc-rio.br/sap/ . Orders placed after the deadline are subject to a fine. Along with this request, the student must justify the need for an extension and attach supporting documents. The request will be analyzed by different instances of PUC and the student can follow the progress through the same system.

If the extension is accepted, the student must also renew the enrollment. If you are not taking any course, you must enroll in the course GEO2741-MASTER’S DISSERTATION.

It is important to highlight that the student who extends the defense must continue to pay 100% of the monthly fee.

The maximum extension period is six months per order. Depending on the severity of the student’s need, up to three extensions may be requested. If the student does not meet this limit, he will be retired.

Yes. One of the fundamental points for the evaluation of the course by Capes is the creation and updating of the Lattes Curriculum. This curriculum must be created and updated from the moment the student enters the master’s degree. Any production, new job, event the student attends or organizes, report, etc. must be mentioned after enrolling in the Professional Masters. Everything the student does and performs from the moment he enters the Master’s, up to five years after leaving the Master’s, will continue to count for course evaluation. Keeping the Curriculum Lates up to date is one of the main ways CAPES assesses the impact of the master’s degree on the student’s professional life.

It is important to highlight that if the student does not have an updated curriculum, it is not possible to defend the dissertation. It is important to create the habit of updating Lattes with each new achievement, production, event, etc. After updating, be sure to click on send the changes to CNPq.

To access the lattes platform click here: Plataforma Lattes (cnpq.br )

If the student has difficulty creating or updating, he can ask the advisor or the course secretariat for help.

PUC-Rio provides a support network for students. This network aims to provide multidisciplinary assistance to students, covering academic, reading and writing, psychopedagogical, professional guidance, psychological and special needs aspects.

RAE is made up of different centers that offer different types of support to students. For more information and to follow the events, you can access the website:

www.puc-rio.br/sobrepuc/admin/vrac/rae/