SILVA, L. F. S.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5541766776038667; SILVA, Luis Felipe dos Santos.
Abstract:
Over time, the space in which we live has suffered and constantly undergoes several changes, mainly due to
human creations, which increasingly seek to facilitate living with the environment. Through this, technology
becomes not only a facilitator, but something that generates power relations, making one that is a step ahead
of technical developments, as a hegemony against those who are "behind" to such advances. This research
had as main objective to analyze the Course of Computer Sciences of the UFCG as one of the sectors of the
technical-scientific-informational environment in Campina Grande / PB, presenting its historical formation,
normative regulation, its structure and academic productions, and analyzing its importance regional. To
achieve these objectives, a bibliographical survey of the general context of the Course was carried out, as
well as interviews. Historically, the municipality of Campina Grande, presented an important regional
development, within a context in which it is inserted. For being initially a commercial warehouse, that
attracted some facilitators of circulation of goods, like the train, and consequently altering its urbanistic
design. Without denying the importance of regional agricultural production (cotton), which required
industrial support for production. These characteristics attract to the municipality the need for skilled labor to
use the technologies that lead to economic development, and the Polytechnic School, with the Engineering
Courses, and later the Computer Science Course, which gave another City and regional technological
academic production, being one of the five best courses in the country, and placing in Campina Grande
outstanding characteristics of the technical-scientific-informational environment.
