Estágio não obrigatório nos cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora: perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

The present study focused on non-mandatory internships at undergraduate courses at the Federal university of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The law 11.788/2008, which regulates internships, establishes that this agreement must be effectively followed by a supervising professor of the educational institution. Based on such law, the Undergraduate Academic Regiment (RAG) of UFJF determines that undergraduate courses must constitute an Internship Guidance Committee (COE) to follow the internships. Although the creation of the COE was established in 2014, over half of the classroom and of the distance learning courses do not have an established COE. Given such outline, we have presented the following guiding question: how is supervision organized for the non-mandatory internship at undergraduate courses at UFJF? Therefore, the study aimed at describing the non-mandatory internship in the following courses selected for the study: Engineering. Business Administration and Nursing; analyzing the process of non-mandatory internships based on the following norms: the law 11.788/2008, the Undergraduate Academic Regiment and the resolution 115/2014, apart from the COE regulations of undergraduate courses and proposing an Intervention Plan that aims at improving the following of non-mandatory internships at undergraduate courses at UFJF. To achieve that, we first conducted a documental analysis, then interviews were conducted with the Dean of Undergraduate courses, the Internship Coordinator, the presidents of the COEs and non-mandatory internship supervising professors of the chosen courses as a sample at UFJF, so that we may verify how the internship has been carried out from the perspective of such professionals. We also applied surveys to students of each of the studied courses who are going through mandatory of non-mandatory internships. The research highlighted that many of the challenges faced by the supervising professors, Course Coordinators and members of the COEs make it difficult or even unfeasible the effective following of non-mandatory internships in undergraduate courses at UFJF. As such, we presented an intervention plan that proposes improvements in the organization of the COEs, which will make it possible to effectively follow such kind of internship.