THE COURSE OF GEOGRAPHIES UFMG AND UFU: PROJECT TERRITORIAL PERMEATED BY MODERNITY

Abstract

The role of the public university and the debates about overcoming backwardness and the arrival of modernity to the interior of Brazil have always been very close. The improvement of science and technology in Brazil allowed the spread of a modernizing ideology, resulting in stimulation and propagation of higher education both more technical as those facing the degrees, such as Geography.

According to data available in the education ministry, Minas Gerais has a peculiar situation in relation to other Brazilian states, it is the unity of the federation that has more public higher education institutions in the country: a total of 68 (sixty-eight). Of this total, eleven (11) public universities are spread by 44 (forty-four) cities across the state. Understanding public university while technical object within the territory allocated to the introduction of project of modernity in the region and thus for "infiltration" of international capital, it is noted that the layout of the large number of public universities ensures the production of research, funded by the public, enabling knowledge areas still unexplored Minas Gerais. This gives agents the political-economic knowledge in the integration and exploitation of regions poorly modernized the state.For the purposes of this paper, it will stick on the Geography Undergraduate two mining regions more specifically, the Triângulo Mineiro region and the Midwest state where courses are allocated from the Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU and the Federal University Minas Gerais - UFMG.