Master’s Degree
1. Mandatory Disciplines
Basic Biostatistics - PPEAP0001 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Enable students in the Biostatistics trade to support the scientific researches, providing overall concepts about the use of computing statistical programs and applying them in the Fishery Resources and Aquatic Ecology studies.
Aquatic Ecology Field Course - PPEAP0007 (5 Credit Units, 120 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Conveys basic concepts about Aquatic Biodiversity on the coast, focused mainly in fauna and flora of estuarine environments and their interaction with the environment.
Continental Waters Ecology- PPEAP0002 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduce environmental and inland waters aquatic ecosystems characteristics, mainly in the Amazon.
Marine Ecology- PPEAP0003 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Enable students to comprehend the marine environment ecology from intertidal zones until the depths of the oceans, emphasizing the tropical ecosystems.
Interdisciplinary Seminars - PPEAP0035 (1 Credit Unit, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The discipline’s objective is to qualify students in order to present scientific seminars, as well as sharing their theoretical knowledge about the theme. Besides having students’ participation on the seminars to present their thesis development, the discipline also contributes to students’ enhancement before the qualifying exam.
Doctor’s Degree
1. Mandatory Disciplines
Teaching Supervised Practice - PPEAP0063 (2 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Interdisciplinary Seminars I - PPEAP0035 (1 Credit Units, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The discipline’s objective is to qualify students in order to present scientific seminars, as well as sharing their theoretical knowledge about the theme. Besides having students’ participation on the seminars to present their thesis development, the discipline also contributes to students’ enhancement before the qualifying exam.
Interdisciplinary Seminars II - PPEAP0036 (1 Credit Units, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The discipline’s objective is to qualify students in order to present scientific seminars, as well as sharing their theoretical knowledge about the theme. Besides having students’ participation on the seminars to present their thesis development, the discipline also contributes to students’ enhancement before the qualifying exam.
Master’s Degree/Doctor’s Degree
1. Elective disciplines
Benthic Studies - PPEAP0061 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: At the end of the discipline, the student should be able to comprehend the benthic organisms’ general characteristics and adaptations. The student should also perceive the biotic and abiotic elements which structure different benthic communities (Meiofauna and Macrofauna) in consolidated and unconsolidated substrate, as well as knowing the methodology to study them.
Biology, Population Dynamic and Fishery Stocks - PPEAP0005 (6 Credit Units, 90 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Be familiar with the fish population main biological aspects, that interfere into their distribution and abundance. Introduce methodology, basic concepts and tools for inventory valuation. Discuss fishery problems in the Amazon and world, possible ways to manage the fishery stocks.
Biomarkers and Environmental Quality - PPEAP0006 (3 Credit Units, 45 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Biomarkers and environmental quality: histology as a study tool. It studies the morphologic structure of different organs that are involved in the fish metabolism as polluting bioindicators.
Delineation and Ecological Experiments Interpretation - PPEAP0024 (3 Credit Units, 45 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Scientific Method, pattern, sampling, central tendency estimators, frequency distribution, hypothesis text, analysis of variance, analysis of links and frequency.
Amazon Streams Ecology - PPEAP0055 (6 Credit Units, 90 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduce the Amazon Streams biological and environmental features, clarifying the structures of those environments, describing the main elements that structure streams communities and how anthropic changes are able to affect those systems.
Fishery and Ethnoknowledge - PPEAP0056 (3 Credit Units,45 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: This discipline’s objective is to present an Anthropology approach about environmental issues, local and natural resources, like aquatic resources, focusing in the Ethnoknowledge. It addresses to an overall anthropology approach by method and theory point of view. It approaches Human Anthropology and Ecological Anthropology as tools to reflect upon native awareness, focused on the approach, as well as on the economic and political character that the traditional awareness introduces.
Philosophy of Science - PPEAP0026 (1 Credit Units,15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The overall scientific method characteristics. The stages of the scientific methods. The science distribution and classification. The social factors and the evaluation of hypothesis and scientific theories. The inductive method. Hypothesis, theories and rules - the center of scientific explanations. Theology and Biology teleonomy. The difference between science and pseudoscience.
Taxonomy basis and Biological terminology - PPEAP0057 (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: This discipline aims to teach the concepts and present legislation referred to Scientific Terminology and Taxonomy. At the end of this discipline, students ought to comprehend and apply the description process, publish and store new species in didactics and attested collections.
Fishery Resources Management in the Amazon - PPEAP0014 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Introduce the main theories and approaches about Fishery Resources Management. Studies about the main theoretical approaches to manage simple resources and fishery resources. The bounds between the approach and the practical experience in fishery management. The analysis of different fishery management systems and their economic, social, and biological evaluation through case studies. It studies the impact upon fishery encouragement politics to the whole fishery sector, fishers and their fishery resources. It studies the co-management and community management of fishery resources in the Amazon and to compare them with other experiences around the world.
Scientific Method - PPEAP0027 (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: The Scientific Method aims to teach the methodologies and concepts applied in academic writing and speech to Fishery and Aquatic Ecology students.
Planktology - PPEAP0015 (6 Credit Units, 90 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: It provides basic notions about Ecology and the plankton importance in the oceanic domain; Qualify students towards: plankton definitions; recognition of the main taxonomic groups on which the plankton belongs to; The awareness above the main biological characteristics; Distribution and ecological significance.
Public Policy and Hydric Resources - PPEAP0016 (2 Credit Units,30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Discuss the Brazilian legislation elements which adjusts the use of Hydric Resources and their conditioning. Verify perspectives for a rational resources management.
Aquatic Ecotoxicology sources - PPEAP0058 (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: This discipline intends to convey the Ecotoxicology basic concepts, including the historical aspects that leaded to the necessity on the creation of a science to attach Ecology and Toxicology up to mechanistic aspects: absorption, bioaccumulation and polluting toxic effects, from the molecular level to the ecosystem and biosphere.
Scientific Writing - PPEAP0062 (4 Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Comprehend the basic elements on scientific speech. Writing rules and the use of references and quotation on scientific publishing. Bibliographic data survey on online databases. Organization and systematization of scientific texts (projects, reports, summaries, original articles, posters, and thesis); Develop or increase their writing skills on scientific papers, focused on articles publishing.
Fishery and Aquatic Ecology Special Topics I - PPEAP0037 (1 Credit Units, 15 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: During this discipline, professors from other institutions interchange among the themes related to Aquatic Ecology issues. This discipline deals with new methodologies, eminent themes or new findings and theories. Emphasize subjects that discuss environmental problems in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fishery and Aquatic Ecology Special Topics II - PPEAP0038 (2 Credit Units, 30 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: During this discipline, professors from other institutions interchange among the themes related to Aquatic Ecology issues. This discipline deals with new methodologies, eminent themes or new findings and theories. Emphasize subjects that discuss environmental problems in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fishery and Aquatic Ecology Special Topics III - PPEAP0039 (3 Credit Units, 45 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: During this discipline, professors from other institutions interchange among the themes related to Aquatic Ecology issues. This discipline deals with new methodologies, eminent themes or new findings and theories. Emphasize subjects that discuss environmental problems in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fishery and Aquatic Ecology Special Topics IV - PPEAP0040 (4Credit Units, 60 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: During this discipline, professors from other institutions interchange among the themes related to Aquatic Ecology issues. This discipline deals with new methodologies, eminent themes or new findings and theories. Emphasize subjects that discuss environmental problems in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fishery and Aquatic Ecology Special Topics V - PPEAP0059 (5 Credit Units, 90 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Enables students to study about Ecology of intertidal fishes, providing notions of sample design, methods of processing collection of biological samples, in order to present the results on international magazines.
The use of Genetic Markers in Evolutionary Study of Fish - PPEAP0021 (3 Credit Units, 45 Credit Hours)
Syllabus: Comprehends Genetic as an instrument to follow Fisheries Natural Population evolution. Genetic Biodiversity significance. Aquatic reserve management, policy and tools. DNA markers to monitor genetic modification in populations. Molecular markers in the study about population structure of species of fish to help in the maintenance and management.