that triggered a movement to start the first state university and on december 18, of 1960 it became the university of santa catarina, offering the courses of law, medicine, pharmacy, philosophy, economics, social service and the school of industrial engineering. on july 15, 1968, as an effort of brazilian government to improve college education in brazil with education reform, the major universities in brazil were reorganized in schools and departments and acquired a new education structure, more resembling the american and english methodology. since then the university became the federal university of santa catarina.