Institute of Human Development (IDH)

The Institute of Human Development (IDH) is in charge of the new students adaptation course for entry to the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), training teachers in the diverse levels of teaching and degrees and postgraduate degrees in education, communication, politics and culture. It looks for new answers in teaching in these fields from a sustainable human development perspective.

The University and the Institute of Human Development

The UNGSis a public institution founded in 1993, it orientates its work around a group of problems, which facilitates the interdisciplinary work and the links between teaching, research and professional services to the community.The Institutes are responsible for the academic activities and are all interlinked.Their knowledge and training fields define the different units: Institute of Sciences (ICI), Institute of Human Development (IDH), Institute of Industry (IdeI) and the Institute of Metropolitan Studies (ICO).

The Institute of Human Development deals with the centrality of the human dimension, growth processes and social development, trying to overcome the limitations of the disciplinary perspectives. The Institute of Human Development makes this its central focus around which the academic structure has been organised, as well as the fundamental nucleus of its research programme in the fields of education, communication, politics and culture. In the context of globalisation of the economic and political relations, this concern about human development implies a strong emphasis in the study of man in the participation and social protagonism, in human rights and inter-culturalism.

Advantages of studying in a university campus

The University Campus gives the students the advantage of communication and access to highly valued resources, such as the Information Technology and Media Lab, the Media Lab, the Geography Information System Lab (LabSIG), the scholars’ room, the Library and various places to meet and relax.

Scholarship system

An important scholarship system is at the disposal of the students. They offer economic scholarships, for students; scholarships in research and teaching, for advanced students and graduates of the university, and scholarships in academic management and community services.

Tutorial system

The aim of the tutorial system is to optimise the students training process, through individual and group strategies of orientation and follow up.

Professional practice

The Internship Program and the students’ participation in research projects directed by researchers-teachers gives the students the possibility to acquire a broad pre-professional experience, as much in the academic area as in other organisations, public and private.

Research

The Institute of Human Development carries out its research through academic projects and/or social agents in general interaction, and the education system in particular, in the following areas:

• Politics
• Culture, cultures
• Education
• Economics and its teaching
• Philosophy and its teaching
• History and its teaching
• Physics and its teaching
• Mathematics and its teaching
• Communication Processes and Communication and Mass Media Policies
• Language Science and its teaching

Academic offer

The IDH is responsible for the University AdaptationCourse (CAU), which constitutes the entry system to the university. The CAU consist of two subjects, Mathematics and Reading & Writing, and lasts seven months.

After passing the CAU, the students study their degrees in UNGSin two successive cycles:

• The General University Cycle lasts five semesters, that deals with diverse specialisations and on completion a University Diploma is achieved. The Diploma allows the continuation to degree studies and at the same time making the entry to work easier.
• The Degree Cycle, also lasting two and a half years, completes the training of the chosen degree.

The IDH is currently responsible for the following four degrees: Communication, Education, Political Studies and Culture and Artistic Languages, and five Teaching Degrees for Secondary School Level: Economics, History, Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy.

Training Co-ordinator: Gabriela Diker

Research Co-ordinator: Daniel Lvovich

Services Co-ordinator: Estela Moyano

Degrees

Communication

Degree Co-ordinator: Beatriz Alem

balem@ungs.edu.ar

The Communication Degree is designed for the theoretical and practical training of professionals capable of designing and managing communication policies in social and institutional environments, as well to the creation of diverse communication products. The purpose is to develop the capacities of the students linked to the production of diagnostics and the formulation of communication strategies in different areas. The graduate will be able to develop his/her career in public and private institutions, in mass media communication and social organisations.

Requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science

Education

Degree Co-ordinator: Mónica Marquina

mmarqui@ungs.edu.ar

The purpose of the Education Degree is to train professionals capable of designing education policies and managing education institutions, public or private, in the contemporary changing world we live. The graduate will be able to develop in public or private organisations in a regional or national level, regional organisations related to education policy in Mercosur, universities, schools or institutes which require planning, management and evaluation projects, and organisations that develop informal and/or social education projects.

Requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science

Political Studies

Degree Co-ordinator: Eduardo Rinesi

erinesi@ungs.edu.ar

The Political Studies Degree proposes to train professionals capable of dealing with, creatively and with critical spirit, the problems that contemporary politics produces. Organised with a transdisciplinary perspective, it offers the students the conceptual instruments that are needed to analyse diverse subjects such as power, conflict and the place and functions of the State in the world today. The students will be able to dedicate themselves to research, university teaching and assessing public organisations or institutions.

Requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science

Culture and Artistic Languages

Degree Co-ordinator: Gustavo Aprea

gaprea@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Culture and Artistic Languages Degree is to train professionals capable of dealing critically with the contemporary socio-cultural problems from a specific analysis perspective of artistic production, based on a firm knowledge of this productive language nature, planning and tackling diverse cultural projects.

Teaching Degree for Secondary School Level

Economics

Degree Co-ordinator: Karina Forcinito

kforcini@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Teaching Degree for Secondary School Level in Economics is to train creative and critical professionals experienced in teaching economics and its current problems in Argentina. As a result, training promotes the graduates to develop their capacities in order to make innovative didactic proposals in their field of specialisation appropriate to the needs of the socio-cultural development of the different contexts in which teaching is involved. The graduates will be able to work with a university degree in economics in secondary school in the national level.

Requirements: Diploma in Social Science

History

Degree Co-ordinator: Jorge Cernadas

jcernada@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Teaching degree for Secondary School Level in History is to train teachers in this discipline at secondary school level, with solid and up-to-date knowledge and with the capacity to carry out curricular and methodological pertinent proposals, and to implement innovative alternatives of teaching in their specialisation. In order achieve this aim, the student must develop adequate teaching-learning abilities to be able to reach the corresponding knowledge and know-how, as well as the different processes and means of knowledge appropriation.

Requirements: Diploma in Human Science

Mathematics

Degree Co-ordinator: Guillermo Matera

gmatera@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Teaching degree for Secondary School Level in Mathematics is to train teachers in mathematics as their main specialisation, and in Physics as a complementary specialisation, and be able to develop in secondary school and tertiary levels. The graduate will be able to teach, assess, co-ordinate, research and evaluate the contents and strategies of teaching in the secondary school and tertiary levels.

Requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Technology

Physics

Degree Co-ordinator: Rodolfo Echarri

recharri@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Teaching degree for Secondary School Level in Physics is to train teachers in Physics as their main specialisation, and in mathematics as a complementary specialisation, and be able to teach in secondary school and tertiary levels. The graduate will be able to teach, assess, co-ordinate, research and evaluate the contents and strategies of teaching in the secondary school and tertiary levels.

Requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Technology

Philosophy

Degree Co-ordinator: José Pablo Martín

jpm@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Teaching degree for Secondary School Level in Philosophy is to train teachers in Philosophy as well as history (as a complementary training) and Ethics and Citizenship, in order to be able to teach in secondary school and tertiary levels. The organisation of the Teaching degree for Secondary School Level in Philosophy offers the student a solid understanding of the conceptual and methodological structure of philosophy, abilities to co-ordinate learning groups and to integrate work teams, and aptitudes geared towards the achievement of methodical reasoning facing different practical situations.

Requirements: Diploma in Human Science

Postgraduate Studies

Postgraduate Degree Specialising in New Childhood and Youth UNGS-CEM

Academic Co-ordinator: Graciela Frigerio –infanciasyjuventudes@ungs.edu.ar

The Postgraduate Degree Specialising in New Childhood and Youthis directed at managers and professors who work in initial education and training projects in tertiary non-university institutes in Buenos Aires, graduates from the UNGS and university staff.Its aim is to give a new significance to the problems faced by childhood and adolescence in teacher training today and offers conceptual tools to review institutional strategies to child, adolescence and youth care, offering training that integrates concepts and experiences (national and international) of child, adolescence and youth care in the reaffirmation of their rights.

Postgraduate Degree Specialising in Political Philosophy

Academic Co-ordinator: Dina Picotti espfilosofiapolitica@ungs.edu.ar

The Postgraduate Degree Specialising in Political Philosophyis directed at higher education graduates in the fields of Philosophy, Humanities or Social Science. Its aim is to contextualise and understand some of the large issues of our society from a philosophical perspective -politically orientated- and promote the conceptual elements and methodological capacities needed to solve problems in the fields of education, communication, politics and culture.

  Continuous Training Program

Academic Co-ordinator: Patricia Guindi pguindi@ungs.edu.ar

The aim of the Program is to offer diverse places of training, learning and update, which are directed, primarily, to teachers, with the idea to strengthen the link between the university and the community in its area of influence. Courses, conferences and seminars related to the updating of pedagogical, disciplinary and/or cultural aspects are offered with the aim of delivering the needs of the education system and the community in general, in conjunction with the teaching activities and research projects developed in the Institute.