Abstract

BARDAGI, Marucia Patta et al. Evaluating psychology majors’ program and career trajectories from alumni perspectives. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2008, vol.28, n.2, pp. 304-315. ISSN 1414-9893.

The objective of this work was to gather knowledge on the career formation and trajectories of psychologists who graduated in the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. A semi-structured 18-topic questionnaire on professional activity, evaluation of undergraduate course and suggestions to improve curriculum was sent by e-mail or postal mail to 143 alumni, graduated between 1997 and 2004. 79 alumni (78,4% women) replied. Results indicated that 88% of the alumni work as psychologists, most of them had a first job as clinical psychologists (41,7%) and 88,6% sought further academic or professional courses. Regarding the undergraduation course, 29,4% indicated that clinical Psychology was more privileged during the course. The main suggestions for a new curriculum were the creation of non-existent disciplines and greater theoretical diversity. These results show that the professional profile of these psychologists tend to be orthodox, have a favorable professional perspective and the suggestions meet the recent curriculum directives for the Psychology courses.

Keywords : Curriculum directives; Alumni; Profissional education; Psychology courses.

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