The general aim of this paper is to discuss the bases, operationalization methodology, and results of the program for horizontal and vertical integration of syllabi implemented in the 2nd semester of 2009 in the undergraduate Management course from a State Public University at Southern Brazil. The concepts and characteristics of the traditional and emergent paradigms of science and their impacts on education are discussed, besides, the issue of interdisciplinarity, and its respective modalities and classifications, is considered in the theoretical framework. The research is exploratory, descriptive, and interpretive. Data and information were collected through bibliographical survey, participative observation, and documental analysis. They were organized and systematized according to indicatives from teaching plannings (disciplines goals, syllabi, teaching-learning methodologies, evaluation systems, and bibliographical references). Data and information were described and interpreted according to the authors' experience in the Management undergraduate course, supplemented by the theoretical and practical grounding discussed by scholars from this field. The program was operationalized through systemic and complementary integration during sensitization meetings, pedagogical meetings, and socialization meetings, as well as feedback sessions. The program revealed that: a) managers, professors, and students must be focused and committed to understand and realize the consequences of the Cartesian paradigm, as well as the relevance of the complexity paradigm foundations, in the implementation of programs concerning interdisciplinarity; b) interdisciplinarity identifies and designates a possible mediation between knowledge and skills, ensuring a creative interaction with differences, as noticed in the identification of shared themes and concepts; and c) the interdisciplinary practice represents a pedagogical possibility to instigate, investigate, and intervene, as observed during pedagogical meetings, evoking what Freire (2005) named "epistemological curiosity".
Interdisciplinarity; Complexity paradigm; Management course
