The Graduate Program in Languages and Literature has a grade of 7 in the CAPES,  the national concept of international excellence. The research developed in the Program focuses in the area of text and discourse. With a single area of concentration, the Program aims to overcome the traditional opposition between the studies of Language and Linguistics on the one hand and Literature on the other. Its' goal is to promote, based on the notions of discourse and text, the relationship between these studies and also between those of verbal and non-verbal languages. Based on this profile, the Program aims to train professionals not only in Literature, but in related areas such as journalism, advertising, translation, education, theology, and others in which the text is the predominant preponderant object of work.