RESOLUTION No. 11/2022

The Chief Executive Officer of the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas, in the exercise of his regimental and statutory attributions, considering the need for a regulation to carry out postgraduate courses in the various areas of knowledge of the institutional matrix, in the form of Article 42 , subitems “j” and “t” of the entity’s Bylaws, ad referendum of the congregation, RESOLVES to institute the General Regulations for Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses in the following terms:

Art. 1° The Lato Sensu Postgraduate courses taught and offered by the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas are based on the legal requirements of the competent bodies, with the objective of offering technical-scientific and professional training in one of the areas of knowledge and are governed by by this regiment in addition to institutional internal rules.

Art. 2nd It is incumbent upon the Executive Board of the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas to promote the academic, administrative and financial management of the Lato Sensu Graduate courses offered.

CHAPTER I
OF COURSES

Art. 3° Lato Sensu Graduate Courses are intended for graduates of higher education courses in Brazil or abroad, whose diploma is issued by a recognized and duly registered teaching institution.

§1° Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses may be proposed and developed in face-to-face or distance mode, in whole or in part, in accordance with current legislation.

§2° The curricular components of Lato Sensu Graduate Courses may be organized, offered and developed by subjects or modules, with a minimum total workload of 360h/a and completion time defined in the Pedagogical Project of each Course (PPC), with compliance with the parameters established in national legislation and in this Regulation.

§3° Professional Residencies will be considered Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses, provided they comply with current legislation and this regulation.

CHAPTER II
ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF COURSES

Art. 6 The proposal for Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses will follow a standard flow and will be evaluated and organized through specific notices approved by the Executive Board, after consulting the General Coordination of Postgraduate Courses of the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas.

Art. 7° It is up to the Executive Board, after hearing the General Coordination of Postgraduate Studies, in its competences after analysis of scientific and pedagogical merit, to approve Lato Sensu Postgraduate courses. Single paragraph. The pedagogical projects accompanied by market feasibility research, prepared by the applicant, will be presented to the president of the Institute of Medical Postgraduate Studies Carlos Chagas, who will adopt the internal measures of processing, in the form of this regiment.

Art. 8° Lato Sensu Graduate courses approved by the Executive Board of the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas are recognized as regular courses.

CHAPTER III
OPENING AND OFFERING LATO SENSU GRADUATE COURSES

Art. 9 The General Coordination of Lato Sensu Graduate Courses will be carried out by a Coordinator appointed by the Executive Board of the Carlos Chagas Institute, pursuant to its Bylaws and these regulations.

§1° The General Coordinator of Postgraduate Courses must be a specific professional in the area of knowledge, with a minimum title of Doctor.

§2° The functions and competences of the Coordinator of each Course will be defined in each approved course project, without prejudice to the administrative and financial management of the Carlos Chagas Institute.

§3 According to the Internal Regulations of the Higher Institute of Health Sciences Carlos Chagas, the General Coordinator of Postgraduate Courses is responsible for:

a) Coordinate, supervise and take the necessary measures for the functioning of the Course, in accordance with the General Regiment of Courses;
b) Adapt, when necessary, the Pedagogical Project of a Course;
c) Monitor compliance with the syllabus and workload of each subject of the Courses;
d) Create academic guidance mechanisms for Course students, if necessary;
e) Establish ways of monitoring and evaluating the Courses;
f) Organize the selection process for candidates to the Courses;
g) Receive, analyze, deliberate or forward, if necessary, suggestions, complaints, representations or appeals, from students or professors, on any subject relevant to the Courses;
h) Request the dismissal of students from the Courses, whether for academic or disciplinary reasons, for non-compliance with the General Rules of Postgraduate Courses of the Institute of Health Sciences Carlos Chagas; i) Develop norms and support regulations for the functioning of the Courses; j) Carry out adaptations and changes in the Internal Rules of the Courses, when necessary;

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V OF THE FACULTY

Art. 10. The teaching staff of the Lato Sensu Graduate Courses must comply with the specific legislation in force, whose hiring must consider the approved Course project, the terms of partnership and these internal regulations.

§1° The criteria for accreditation, re-accreditation and dis-accreditation of professors of Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses must be approved by the Coordination of Postgraduate Courses and by the Executive Board of the Institute.

CHAPTER VI
DURATION OF CURRICULAR COMPLETION

Art. 11. Lato Sensu Graduate courses will have their duration fixed by the respective Pedagogical Project of the Course (PPC), observing the current legal minimum of 360 hours, in which individual or group study time will not be computed, without teaching assistance , and the one obligatorily reserved for the individual elaboration of Course Completion Work (TCC).

§1° After the regular period of duration of the course has elapsed, the student will have a maximum period of 12 months to complete delayed curricular activities, including the Course Completion Work (TCC).

§2 The student who does not complete the course within the period indicated above, will be entitled to the School Transcript and certification corresponding to the studies carried out, pursuant to art. 35 of this Regulation.

§3° Early completion may be authorized for students who have completed in advance, and with approval, all the curricular components of the course, at the discretion of the Course Coordinator and the General Coordinator of Postgraduate Courses.

Art. 12. The curricular organization of Lato Sensu Post-Graduation courses is based on mandatory curricular components established by the Pedagogical Project of the Course (PCC).
Single paragraph. Curricular components are understood as: subjects, modules, activities or syllabus contents that make up the curriculum of a course.

Art. 13. Optionally, the student may attend, for purposes of curricular enrichment, curricular components of other Lato Sensu Graduate courses.

§1° Disciplines taken under the curricular enrichment regime will not entitle the student to be exempted from disciplines in which the student is enrolled.

§2° The disciplines dealt with in this article may be taken by interested parties who have the basic requirements of prior training demanded by the respective curriculum.

Art. 14. The student regularly enrolled in a Lato Sensu Postgraduate course who, in a period prior to the enrollment in force, has attended, with approval, disciplines from other Lato Sensu postgraduate courses, may request, through curriculum analysis, waiver of disciplines of your Course or current curriculum, except in cases where the respective Course Pedagogical Project forbids it.

§1° The curriculum analysis will be carried out by the Course Coordinator in particular or person delegated by him.

§2 The curriculum analysis will only take into account information contained in official documents issued by the Higher Education Institution of origin.

§3° Subsidiarily, at the discretion of the Course Coordinator, proof of verification of knowledge may be required as a complement to the documentation submitted for curricular analysis.

Art. 15th. When analyzing the curriculum for use in studies through exemption from a subject, the subject previously taken must:
I. have been successfully attended and concluded on a date prior to enrollment in the course for which you wish to take advantage of your studies;
II. submit a minimum workload of 75% of the workload of the subject in which you request approval; ill. present, in a majority proportion, content similar to the content of the subject to be dispensed, taking into account the respective teaching plans.

§1° To dispense with a subject, contents and workloads of two or more subjects previously taken may be used, provided that they are counted only once.

§2° The contents and workload of a previously studied subject may be used to exempt two or more subjects, provided that they are counted only once.

Art. 16. Curriculum analysis will be carried out, exclusively and definitively, at the moment the student joins the Course. Single paragraph. The waiver of any discipline dealt with in article 14 of this Resolution does not imply any pecuniary reduction.

CHAPTER VII
SELECTION AND REGISTRATION PROCESS

Art. 17. The selection and enrollment of candidates for the Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses must be carried out by means of a Public Notice proposed by the General Coordination of Postgraduate Studies and approved by the Board of the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Carlos Chagas, in the form of its Articles of Incorporation and these regulations.

Art. 18. The selection will be the responsibility of the Course Coordinator, following the criteria of the Announcement and respecting the General Rules of Lato Sensu Graduate Courses.
Single paragraph. The public notice mentioned in the caput will establish, without prejudice to other determinants:

I. number of vacancies, minimum and maximum;
II. Remote and/or face-to-face system, and in this case, the location where the course activities take place; ill. periodicity and location in which the course activities take place;
IV. enrollment procedures;
V. documentation to be presented by the candidate;
VI. enrollment procedures.

Art. 19. Enrollment, the formal act of entering the course and binding the institution, will only be effective after the candidate has signed the Educational Services Provision Agreement.

§1 Candidates approved and classified in the selection process must comply with the calendar and registration formalities provided for in the Public Notice and in the Course Regulation.

§2°. Extemporaneous enrollment is prohibited when this implies offering a curricular component exclusively for the candidate.

Art. 20. Only students holding a graduation course diploma, duly registered in accordance with the requirements of the legislation provided for in the Course Pedagogical Project (PPC) and offer notices, may enroll as regular students in Lato Sensu Postgraduate Courses .

§1º The conditional enrollment of students who present a certificate or statement of graduation from an Undergraduate course, issued by a Higher Education Institution recognized by the Ministry of Education, may be authorized, with the student obliged, through the Term of Commitment, to present the diploma duly registered within the period established by the same, under penalty of suspension of the academic activities carried out.

§2° In the case of non-submission of the duly registered diploma within the established period, the student will receive a statement of the curricular components and their use.

CHAPTER VIII
TRANSFERS

Art. 21. Enrollment may be granted, at the discretion of the Course Coordinator, to students transferred from other Postgraduate Lato Sensu courses, provided that the following conditions are met:

I. Candidate is regularly enrolled in a similar Graduate course;
II. There is a vacancy available in a regular class, constituted and in operation;
III. The acceptance of the transfer does not mean offering a curricular component exclusively for the transferor.

CHAPTER IX
ATTENDANCE AND EVALUATION OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Art. 22. Student attendance at teaching-learning activities provided for in the Course’s Pedagogical Project (PPC) is mandatory.

§1° In the curricular components offered in the face-to-face modality, the computation of attendance is established by the presence of the student in the stipulated place for the execution of classes and other teaching-learning activities, on the dates and times established in the Course schedule.

§2° In the curricular components offered in the distance education modality, the frequency is established by the execution of the activities, respecting the student’s autonomy of the teaching-learning activities within the deadlines stipulated in the teaching plan and by the presence, virtual or face-to-face , to carry out mandatory activities established in the Course’s Pedagogical Project (PPC).

§3° In each curricular component, the mandatory minimum attendance is 75% of the expected workload.

Art. 23. The student’s attendance must be registered by the professor responsible for the Course.

§1 The attendance of the student body will be registered through its own system.

Art. 24. The right to the Exceptional Regime is guaranteed, to compensate for absence from teaching-learning activities, to students with an infectious disease or prevented by some physical limitation, equal to or greater than a period of ten days, to pregnant women and members of representations official sporting events, in accordance with current legislation.

§1 The requests relating to the Exceptional Regime must be instructed in accordance with the specific regulations.

§2° For the cases dealt with in the caput, whenever there is a possibility of harming the student’s learning, in accordance with the Pedagogical Project of the Course (PPC), the request may be rejected by the Coordinator of the specific Course.

§3° The Exceptional Regime is characterized by the waiver of regular attendance and the carrying out of work and activities to compensate for absences from classes.

§4° The use of the Exceptional Regime does not suspend the time count for the purpose of curricular completion.

§5° In addition to the work to compensate for absence from classes, the student may be asked for other activities/assessments, which will be used to compose the grade for the course.