UFOP’s Letters Program began in 1980, offering the bachelor and teaching modalities: Portuguese Language (teaching degree), English Language (teaching degree), Translation (bachelor’s degree) and Literature Studies (bachelor’s degree). The undergraduate with a teaching degree will be a professional with a wide domination of the Portuguese or English language, qualified to teach in basic education. The bachelor in Literature Studies will be a professional with a profile geared towards the reflections and specific practices connected to research, with special competence to analysis, interpretation, and literary criticizing. The bachelor in Translation will be a professional qualified to the translation of several gender texts of the English language to the Portuguese language. In general, the professional undergraduate in Letters will be fit to the critical and reflexive work with language, in oral and written modalities, in its different registrations, being able to do any service, which demands knowledge related to the area.
The professionals with a teaching degree in Portuguese and English languages will be prepared to work as a teacher in middle and high school institutions, while also being able to work as educators in other contexts, which covers the integration between language, culture, communication, and education, such as museums and libraries. The professional with the teaching degree in English Language may also work in free idiom programs. The bachelor in Literature Studies will develop activities in non-school spaces and institutions, in several roles, for example: producer and reviser of cultural content involving language and literature, editor, reviewer, screenwriter, cultural assessor and researcher/assessor of cultural projects, among others. The bachelor in Translation will be fit to work in the areas which demand interpretation works, translators and researchers in the translation area. The teaching and bachelor degrees in Letters will also be able to continue their studies in the master and doctorate levels, seeking the superior teaching career.
