The full curriculum includes the common core (fundamental cycle, professional cycle and legal practice), the enhancement core, complementary activities and the end of course thesis.
As for the general training cycle, anticipating the norms of LDB, from Ordinance n° 1886/94 of MEC increased the number of key issues contained in Resolution n° 3/72 from the Federal Council of Education, in order to prevent the dogmatic and positivistic approach that is dominant in Law Schools and promote a connection to Economics, Sociology and Philosophy.
It is important, because, the student that studies subjects such as Economics, Legal and General Sociology, General and Law Philosophy, General and Professional Ethics and Political Science (including General Theory of the State), introduced as part of general education.
The demand of this adequacy is important in the choice of a curriculum that is not represented primarily by quantification of content, but in the articulation of subjects within a pedagogical proposal that sets, clearly, the course objectives by establishing the relevant content that define the extension of the action, enabling the overlap and the balance between theoretical and practical activities, as well as the development of critical and reflective thinking in the students.
In the vocational training program we tried to do the same, meeting the requirements of Ordinance n° 1886/94 of MEC, which defined certain areas of legal knowledge as essential to the proper training (not general anymore) of the Bachelor of Law.
Showing real harmony with the current technological changes and the social context in which it operates, where we can highlight the profound vocation of the region for agribusiness, as well as the status of high-tech development center, to which we can include now, EMBRAER and the installation of its aircraft factory in our neighboring municipality of Gavião Peixoto, Savonitti College will include in its curriculum subjects such as “International Trade and Agribusiness”, “Agribusinesses and Industrial Contracts” and “Aerospace Law”.
Another highlight in the curriculum of Savonitti College is the emphasis given to State Law subjects, which forms one of the areas of the enhancement core, based on the mastery in three semesters of the course “Constitutional Law”, plus two semesters of “Tax Law” and “Administrative Law” and the departments of “Intellectual Property”, “Financial Law”, “Administrative Proceedings” and “Environmental Law” as compulsory subjects.
In this sense, remembering the warning from master Geraldo Ataliba, prefacing the book “Public Law Fundamentals” by Carlos Ari Sundfeld from a decade ago saying that “the legal education in Brazil is behind, including the curriculum of undergraduate courses, which is almost the same as the one in the beginning of the century. As if we still lived in 1910, giving to the students the false impression that the world of law is formed by the civil, commercial and criminal law”.
He continues noting that “it is more serious when we find that most students – even those who have already graduated – assume that the general law of legal norms (among us wrongly labeled as Introductory Law to the Civil Code) is governed by private law, leading to the misconception that civil rights are the core of Law. Such perspective is deforming and has a tremendous impact in their own institutional life”.
He concludes, “hence the ignoring that administrative law is the common law of public administration (Ruy Cerne Lima) and regulatory rule of the relationship between management and managed. Hence the contempt for constitutional law and the public law in general. All this in a context where public law disputes, statistically, are almost half the movement of the Courts, making the relations of public law, expand and even extend to almost all ends of human activity”.
With this in mind, Savonitti College in an unprecedented position, dedicates two of its four semesters to legal practice to perform activities involving relations State/Companies, using its Legal Practice Office to go beyond traditional activities of Civil and Criminal Law, to act together with micro and small companies in the region doing things from the tax planning, to the assisting the companies in administrative proceedings and in lawsuits, creating an innovative production core in the fields Agribusiness and Business Law.
In addition to the common core subjects, the Savonitti College curriculum has three enhancement courses in the fields of “Civil Law”, “State Law” and “Criminal Law”. The option for the area of focus should be made at the beginning of the 8th term, and it will cover the last three semesters of the course and will be composed of six subjects in a total of 210 class hours.
The enhancement course in “Civil Law” will include the subjects Consumer’s Law, Agro-Industrial and Commercial Contracts, Children and Adolescent’s Law, Technological Innovations Law, Notary Law and Roman Law.
The area of concentration in “State Law” includes the departments of International Trade and Agribusiness, Urban Law, Economic Law, Electoral and Sectarian Law, Aerospace Law and Human Rights.
Finally, the area of concentration in “Criminal Law” consists of Criminology, Forensic Medicine I, Forensic Medicine II, Victimology, Criminality and Jury Court.