Summer School

The main innovation promoted by the Department in the field of political science education has been the USP Summer School in Concepts, Methods and Techniques in Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations. Created in 2010, the USP Summer School offers high-level courses in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Organized by the DCP,, the Summer School has provided innovative training to students and researchers not only from USP, but from many Brazilian and foreign institutions.

Library

In 2005, the FFLCH-USP Library was inaugurated with a unified collection, receiving the name ‘Florestan Fernandes Library’, in honor of sociologist Florestan Fernandes, who for a long time served as a professor of the Faculty. In the library you can find, borrow and read course and reference books and consult journals and databases within the social sciences. You can also find study plac

Infrastructure

The Department has access to excellent laboratories, which are continuously updated, and with open access for students from the four research lines as multi-user spaces. Currently, the Program has 4 modern laboratories (rooms 1, 18a, 18b and 122) with computers, multimedia projectors and teaching resources to host courses in research methods and techniques in political science and intern