State, social rights and social policy Studies, under a critical framework, Social Policy in a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing the processes of formulation and implementation of social policies, highlighting the elements that confer institutionality to them - the management processes, the financial framework, the evaluative designs and focuses, the exercise of social control. It also researches the work processes of different areas related to the development of social policies, with an emphasis on the search for interdisciplinarity, intersectionality, and verification of the impact on the quality of life of users. It includes comparative studies on Social Protection Systems in Southern Countries in South America, with emphasis on the particularities of the border regions and Border Lines.

The Master's course in Human Rights at the Unit has the central objective of developing research and advanced studies in the area of ​​Law, with a focus on Human Rights, from a critical, non-Eurocentric perspective, which contemplates Latin American experiences and the specificities and potentialities of local knowledge, Brazilian culture and historical narratives that constitute our tradition, to face dimensions that currently generate important challenges to the legal universe: social complexities, new technologies, and the natural environment.