CHOICE OF COURSE AND UNIVERSITY EVASION: Analyzes from the Unified Selection System
Dropout Phenomenon, Higher Education, SISU, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Career Choice.
University dropout is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon that has aroused the interest of many researchers in the last few years. With the implementation of the Unified Selection System (SISU), the possible causes and types of dropouts are not properly presented in the academic environment. It is assumed that this new model of higher education selection allows the mobility between undergraduate courses, which is a peculiarity to be understood and investigated in the contemporary dropout phenomenon, which, in this study, will be understood as the change of undergraduate course without completing it. The aim of this study is to identify the factors presented by the students from the Centre of Applied Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) regarding their intention to change to another undergraduate course. This research may help to understand this phenomenon, its real impact and if there is any influence of the professional choice, as well as the possible change of the undergraduate course from the model of the Unified Selection System implemented by the Ministry of Education gradually in the Institutions of Higher Education, which was completely implemented in the UFRN in 2014. This research has a qualitative approach, and the students of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences presented the intentionality to change their undergraduate courses and agreed to participate as subjects to be identified and interviewed. Once the interviews were completed, discourse analysis was used to analyse the data.