The Graduate Program in Letters, Academic Master's Course, had a favorable technical opinion from the 161st Meeting of the Scientific Technical Council (STC) CURSOS NOVOS (NEW COURSES), held from December 7 to 11, 2015, of the Coordination Foundation for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), obtaining concept 3.

It obtained a renewal of recognition through the approval of the Technical Opinion of National Education Council (CNE)/High Education Chamber (CES) 487/2018 – Quadrennial Evaluation 2017, Ordinance 0609 of 03/18/2019 (http://pesquisa.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/index.jsp?data=18/03/2019&newspaper=515&pagina=63).

The Graduate Program in Letters (PPGLetras) is located in the city of Sinop, in the State of Mato Grosso.

The State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), when proposing the Master's Course in the area of Letters, considered the research object that it intends to interrogate and unveil: the linguistic diversity marked by the amalgam of the colonizer in contact with native languages and the literary diversity of production of authors who write in the State and about the State, interrelated to the national production and to the Portuguese-speaking countries production with which they, exemplarily, authenticate the conceptual universe referring to interculturality.

This is the vertex that shapes the Program, combined with the teaching staff's experience in teaching, research and extension.

The Program has an area of concentration "Linguistic and Literary Studies": Studies of linguistic phenomena marked by the contact of the colonizer language with native languages in the Amazon context and the literary diversity produced in the region and its possible dialogues with the national production and the Portuguese-speaking countries production in the conceptual universe regarding interculturality.

The Program's research lines are:

Linguistic Studies - This line is dedicated to the study of theories and uses of language in the relationship between subject and society, with emphasis on the linguistic-cultural context of the Amazon, from the linguistic description and analysis referring to text, discourse, variation and diversity in the morphosyntactic-semantic and phonological interface, and from the identity constitution, teacher training and the teaching and learning of languages.

Literary Studies - This line is dedicated to the study of literature as an artistic object, understood in its articulations in national and international context, as an agency for the reader’s constitution in the multiple literacies, considering the researches of intercultural and identity processes in regions of the Amazon.

Program Objectives:

I - Develop researches in Linguistics and Literature, aiming at understanding language in its social, cultural and historical manifestations in the context of the Amazon;

II - Contribute to the deepening of the investigations regarding the different linguistic manifestations in the social and cultural contexts; and

III - Extend studies on the literary object and the relationships between literature, critical theories and other artistic languages.

In line with these objectives, the creation of mechanisms to intensify the scientific production articulated and produced by teachers and master's students from the founding concepts of the disciplines, lines of research, projects and research groups.

When complying with what was proposed in the objectives, it is understood that the post-graduate should be able to study linguistic and literary phenomena at a global level to focus on the re-reading of the regional context, to interpret the network of meanings emerging from the mixture of speeches, habits, beliefs, representations, among others, in which conflicts and dialogues that can be analyzed in the light of language are linked.

Thus, the professional will be encouraged to focus on the linguistic manifestations present in the region where natives and migrants extend a range of significant variations in the composition of the Mato Grosso profile. In addition to the linguistic variety, which naturally implies cultural diversity, the post-graduate will also turn his attention to the literary production existing in the region, through which the images that constitute culture and man, based on the elements of the land, fauna, flora, dance, religious festivals, food, clothing, economic conflicts, among other factors that are offered to literature as an indispensable raw material to draw the representative mosaic of the region.

Supported by these pillars, the post-graduate will be effectively able to understand the subject's historical constitution in relation to the place where he/she lives, as well as establish connections with the linguistic and literary universe in which he/she is inserted as a researcher, teacher and trainer of future teachers and researchers.