Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has published the list of UFSC selected students for the elective course “The Languages of Science”. This is the first COIL course (Collaborative Online International Learning)* offered at UFSC, in a multicultural and interdisciplinary way.

The selected students are from three campuses (Florianópolis, Curitibanos and Blumenau), seven schools (CCB, CFM, CCE, CFH, CSE, CCS and CTC), and twelve undergraduate programs (Biology, Chemistry, English Language and Literature, Forest Engineering, Oceanography, Social Sciences, Pharmacy, Electrical Engineering, International Relations, Psychology and Materials Engineering). They will be joined by 16 French undergraduate students from different areas and ten students from the Euro-Mediterranean Master’s in Neuroscience (EMN-Online).

The course was created in partnership with the Université de Bordeaux (UB) in France and offered 16 places for each institution (UFSC and UB) in the 2022.2 semester. The course, addressing the role of science in society, will include topics such as science and democracy, pseudoscience, and fake news, in a virtual journey through the scientific world, with all its diversity of areas, cultures, languages and countries.

In the first edition, in 2021, the course taught in English enrolled fifty students from Brazil, France, Morocco, Tunisia and Mexico, who produced more than twenty collaborative projects. The projects are now available to the general public on the website languagesofscience.wordpress.com.

The 2022 edition, which will take place from 13 September to 6 December,  will maintain its creative, intercultural and innovative aspects. In its practical activities, the students will participate in binational groups, and each group will choose a teaching innovation project to create an innovative tool on one of the following themes: Climate Changes and Biodiversity; Renewable Energy; Education; Science and Society; Science and Gender; Science and Ethnicity; Neuroscience; and Science of Natural Products.

The students will receive guidance from a diverse panel of guest scientists from North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa. The activities and methodology will be available through the course’s website.

*Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a program shared by two or more institutions from geographically distant locations. COIL is an innovative way to engage students in a shared, multicultural and collaborative online learning environment.