Graduate/Postgraduate Studies

Course designed for students who are not geology majors. Classes will be interspersed with fieldwork, including reading and interpreting geological maps and identifying common rocks and minerals.

Learning in the context of higher education. Profile of the university professor: articulation between teaching, research, and extension. Curriculum guidelines and pedagogical proposals for higher education courses. University teaching and teaching and learning processes. Regulation of assisted teaching at UFRN. Preparation of a teaching internship plan and activity report.

Advanced and interactive approach to current topics, in the form of or including mini-courses and lectures, related to specific areas of the program. For this reason, the syllabus and bibliography are highly variable.

Study of the main topics related to evolutionary theory and its biological implications. Large-scale spatial and temporal evolutionary patterns, study of natural selection, adaptation and genetic drift, concepts of species and speciation, co-evolution, macroevolution, and phenotypic plasticity.