Academic offer

Two study cycles

The Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) assumes a pedagogical strategy aim that securing solid basic and specific training, which allows students to access the theoretical knowledge and actual information about critical issues, and graduate in optimum conditions to exercise the chosen profession.

The University’s teaching structure is organised in two cycles, as follows:

• General University Cycle, of five semesters, which gives a University Diploma in General Studies and is run by the Institute of Science, one of the four institutes which are part of the university. The General University Cycle gives five specialisations: in Exact Sciences, Human Science, Social Science, Industrial Technology and in Administration.
• The Degrees Cycle, degrees of five semesters and three in the Teaching Degrees for Secondary School Level. Its development is run by the rest of the institutes of the UNGS: the Institute of Human Development, the Institute of Industry and the Institute of Metropolitan Studies.

Advantages of a novel curricular structure

The structure of two cycles has the advantage of letting the students spread their capacities, broaden their training and find a better way to prepare themselves to succeed in their development of the degree they chose. Meanwhile in the traditional system the student has to choose a degree at the time of enrolment at the university – with the following frustration if that choice turns out to be wrong –, the UNGS lets its students choose a more general orientation during the first semesters, allowing for the choice of a more professional orientation at a later date. So, once they end the degree they can obtain other titles from the same General University Cycle.

The novel curriculum structure also favours the exchange between students with different interests and knowledge.

Form of entry

University Adaptation Course (CAU)

This is the main form of entry for new students to the UNGS, including those older than 25 without a complete secondary education that opt to embark on university studies. The Institute of Human Development handles its organisation and teaching and its study plans deal with the development of three subjects: Mathematics, Reading & Writing and a Science Workshops.This course is orientated to facilitate and strengthen the students’ entry process in the university life.

The CAUis mandatory to those who are interesting in studying in the UNGS, except for those who already have a degree or tertiary studies of four or five years.

The University Diploma in General Studies

On completion of the General University Cycle, the students obtain a diploma, which certifies their training in general studies. This certification accredits their knowledge in the following areas:

• Exact Science
• Industrial Technology
• Administration
• Social Science
• Human Science

The University Diploma in General Studies has an academic reach and marks the end of an important period of training for the students, that it permits them to continue their studies at the UNGS, as well as improve their possibilities of entering the work environment.

Degrees

At the moment, the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS) offers seventeen degrees, which, as the modular structure given, emerge, from the combination of specialisations and superior cycles.

Teaching degrees for secondary school level

Training: in two disciplinary fields (main and complementary training), and acquisition of the tools and capacities needed to develop innovative teaching proposals.

Professional fields: teaching insecondary school level; training activities in non-university tertiary institutes, assessing, co-ordination, research and evaluation in these institutions.

Teaching degree for secondary school level offer:

• Mathematics (requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Industrial Technology)
• Physics (requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Industrial Technology)
• Economics (requirements: Diploma in Social Science)
• History (requirements: Diploma in Human Science)
• Philosophy (Requirements: Diploma in Human Science)

   

Degrees

The degrees offered by the UNGS include non-traditional fields of knowledge or from an interdisciplinary perspective or focus, something not available in other universities. In various cases it is the first degree offer in the country. Combined subjects, labs, workshops and internships in the two cycles, which integrate it: this gives the students a solid approximation of the modern problems of their field of specialisation.

• Education (requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science)
  It proposes to train professionals able to design education policies in changing times, to the different levels of teaching. The graduate student will be competent in directing, organising and/or assessing public or private education institutions in different levels and jurisdictions, on a national or regional scale. They will be able to work on plans, educational projects, study plans, pedagogical assessments, teacher training projects, evaluations, degrees and educational reforms.

• Communication (requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science)
  Communication graduates are capable of planning, evaluating or managing policies and communication strategies, as much in the public as the private sector. With the handling of the new technologies they will be able to solve communication problems and ensure that every sector has access to information. They can also work in media, journalism, publicity and production, in areas of communication in institutions or companies; in image assessment, in education, etcetera.

• Political Studies (requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science)
  This degree deals with the problems simultaneously and from various disciplines: Political Science, Political Economics, Sociology, History, Philosophy and Anthropology, among others. The graduate in Political Studies finds their field of work in research (academic o journalistic), the assessment of public and private bodies (companies, popular organisations or representative entities) and political parties, associations and social organisations.

• Culture and Artistic Languages (requirements: Diploma in Human Science or Social Science)
  The degree critically deals with the contemporary socio-cultural problems from the specific perspective of the analysis of the artist’s production, about the base of the knowledge of the nature of the languages of these productions. The students train as analysts and managers of cultural processes. Due to the training graduate students can work in two broad fields: on one side, developing projects related to culture and art, assessing and orientating the management in cultural organisations and public and private institutions; on the other side, in development projects contributing to the analysis of the cultural dimension of the transformation of social processes.

• Urban Ecology (requirements: Diploma in Exact Science)
  Trains professionals capable of understanding, analysing and looking for solutions to the environmental problems in cities, in order to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants; and respond to the needs of the competitive world. Being a professional is increasingly demanding, as much in the public arena (co-ordination, management, services, consultancies) as in the private (industrial companies, services and consultancies). It is the first degree offered in this field in Argentina.

• Public Administration (requirements: Diploma in Administration or Social Science)
  Forms professionals capable of intervening or improving management and growth of the efficiency of governments in the different jurisdictions (national, provincial and municipal). Graduates are able to execute the tasks in the diverse public administration levels, develop teaching tasks and research at a university level, assessment activities and specialised consultations.

• Urbanism (requirements: Diploma in Social Science, Exact Science or Industrial Technology)
  Forms professionals capable of working through the use of policies and plans to create solutions for problematic cities, as much in the municipal public sector, provincial or national, as in private companies dedicated to infrastructure and services, or in intermediaries who work in the housing field and urban services. This is the first Urbanism Degree in Argentina.

• Social Policy (requirements: Diploma in Social Science)
  Prepares professionals who are capable of designing and executing policies directed at solving diverse social problems, as community organisers, housing, employment or health. Graduates can act in the municipal public sector, provincial, national and Mercosur countries, as well as in national or international investment projects, public or private. It is the first academic degree offered in Social Policy in the country.

• Industrial Economy (requirements: Diploma in Social Science or Administration)
  Proposes to train professionals specialising in Economics orientated to different aspects of the production and function of companies. They can work in industrial companies (management, administration, evaluation, etcetera) and the services field. They will also be able to work for themselves in assessment activities, consultation, organising and producing goods and services, or support for companies and professional organisations, assisting public institutions and financial entities.

• Political Economy (requirements: Diploma in Social Science)
  Trains professionals specialising in economic problems, with the possibility to collaborate using creative political actions with civil servants, social or private, to confront socio-economical problems and be able to outline productive and social policies and programmes in a national, regional or local level. Graduate students can work on: the national public sector, provincial or municipal sectors, companies, international bodies, in teaching and research, workers and employers associations, NGOs, etcetera.

Engineering

Trains in fields that include looking after the updating of the knowledge and engineering practices, together with the needs of the development of the local and national production system, and with a strong emphasis on the direct experimentation of problems and their solutions, done using subjects, workshops, labs and interns.

• Industrial Engineering(requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Industrial Technology)
  Trains professionals capable of resolving specific technical-economical problems that presents themselves to a company. Graduates can work on the design, implementation, operation, maintenance, management, control and evaluation of industrial and service companies. They can also use their knowledge in consultancies, public institutions and intermediaries related with the industrial arena.
  Accredited by CONEAU for 6 years.

• Engineering in Manufacture Technology(requirements: Diploma in Exact Science or Industrial Technology)
  Graduate students are prepared to occupy positions in areas of responsibility within manufacturing companies, these could be areas of process, design, development products and plant engineering, as well as in machine and tool manufacturers. The purpose of offering this degree is due to the surge in the demand of high quality manufactured products at reduced costs and it is orientated to the formation of professionals capable in the application and control of new manufacturing methods of consumptive items or industrial products.

Postgraduate studies

The UNGS develops postgraduate activities which, from the point of view of its institutional project, completes the education offer, facilitating the consolidation of professionals and researchers in the relevant fields of knowledge, and offer, as much to its graduates as to the other national or foreign universities, spaces for the continuation of specialised studies with a professional or academic orientation.

Presently, offering the following:

Doctorates

• Doctorate in Social Science
• Doctorate in Science and Technology

Masters

• Masters in Economics and Industrial Development specialising in SMMEs
• Masters in Science, Technology and Innovation Management
• Masters in Social Economy
• Masters in Social Science

Specialised Postgraduate Degrees

• Postgraduate Degree Specialising in Local Development in Urban Regions
• Postgraduate Degree Specialising in Science, Technology and Innovation Management

Postgraduate Courses

• Postgraduate course in Local Development and Social Economy
• Postgraduate course Ground Markets: Tools for public management theory