Federal University of Paraná

The Universidade Federal do Paraná ( UFPR ) is a Brazilian public university based in Curitiba, Paraná.

The university was founded on 19 December 1912 as the Universidade do Paraná. It is the oldest university in Brazil and is considered a landmark of the city of Curitiba.

This centrally located historic main building was built in the 1950s. The UFPR today consists of eleven faculties, including the 1973 Faculdade de Filosofia from, Ciências e Letras emerged Faculty of Humanities and the Arts ( Setor de Ciências Humana, Letras e Artes). The ten institutions that located in the center of Curitiba Faculty of the Institute of Modern Languages ​​belongs ( Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas, DELEM ), which in addition to English, French, Spanish and other languages, the degree German ( Letras Inglês) with a focus on linguistics, literature and translation offers.

Since 1995 there has also been the language center (Centro de Línguas e Interculturalidade, CELIN ) Faculty of Humanities, which in addition to cross-cultural offerings, such as literature, cinema, theater, Tandem programs, courses in 22 languages, including Portuguese as a foreign language offers. The Language Centre continues to maintain several research projects, including in the fields of linguistics and didactics ( eg the textbook development).