​POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

The Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences (PPGCS) at PUC Minas focuses on "Cities: Culture, Work and Public Policies". This program aims at graduates in Social and Human Sciences and professionals with higher education in other areas of knowledge who have interest and/or experience in studies of urban issues, with emphasis on urban culture, work, public policies, local power and participation, metropolises, and social inequalities.
The PPGCS has national excellence verified by the Quadrennial Evaluation of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in which it obtained grade  5 . Accredited by CAPES since 1999, when it started its activities with a master’s degree, the program started to offer the doctoral degree in 2005.
Research Lines:

• Culture, Identities and Ways of life
• Metropolises, Work and Inequalities
• Public Policies, Participation and Local Power