Attendees will receive valuable information about the courses offered by the state campus and the different institutional units and programs.

High school students and the general public will have the opportunity to learn about the academic offerings, benefits and work of the University of La Serena, in the now traditional EXPO ULS Vocational Fair, which this year will be held on October 3 and 4 in the Ignacio Domeyko Campus.

Those who attend this fair will be able to interact with students and academics from the courses assigned to the faculties of Sciences, Social and Economic Sciences, Humanities and Engineering, and professionals from the different units and programs of the state campus. There are also talks from undergraduate programs, and various musical and artistic presentations.

The ULS vocational fair will be open to the community from 09:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m., at the university campus located at Benavente 980, La Serena.

This activity is organized by the Department of Corporate Communications, with the support of the macro-units and units of the house of higher education.

In its 2017 version, this fair brought together more than 4 thousand students from various establishments in the Coquimbo Region and other parts of the country.

The initiative is part of the commemoration of the International Day for Non-Violence against Women.

The CRUCH Gender Equality Commission and the University of La Serena invite the student community to participate in the "Microvideos on the prevention of sexual harassment and gender violence" contest.

The initiative is part of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women or International Day of Non-Violence against Women, which is commemorated every November 25 to denounce the violence that is exerted on women throughout the world and demand policies in all countries for its eradication. That is why the CRUCH Gender Equality Commission has invited all universities to become part of this instance through a contest aimed at students.

The objectives of this contest are to promote reflection on sexual harassment and gender violence as serious violations of human rights, motivate students to problematize the reality of sexual harassment and gender violence in a creative way through audiovisual resources, and express absolute rejection of behaviors of sexual harassment and gender violence.

Regular students of the University of La Serena can participate. The projects can be individual or group (maximum 3 students), and each participating student or group can submit a microvideo made on any digital device. Students who participate as members of a group may not submit other work individually or join other groups.

The microvideos cannot exceed 2 minutes in length and must be sent to the mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., placing in Subject: Microvideo Contest.

The delivery period ends on October 5.

There will be prizes and the winning video will be broadcast nationwide on the CRUCH Network.

The organization of this meeting was carried out by the Council of the School of Auditing.

To evaluate the progress in the work plan proposed by the Board of Directors and the Technical Committee of the Academic Conference of Accounting Research (CAPIC), members of said Committee met at the University of La Serena, where definitions of Strategies to enhance the presence of CAPIC, both nationally and internationally.

This meeting, which is the third of its kind so far this year, was held for the first time at the ULS and on the occasion the accounting research dissemination activities carried out during 2018 and their projection were evaluated. for 2019. In addition, the editor of the CAPIC REVIEW Magazine reported about the new volumes of this magazine that will soon be published, and the approval was made of the proposal made by the University of Magdalena of Colombia to be the headquarters in the XXX CAPIC 2019 anniversary.

The president of the Technical Committee, Berta Silva, from the Catholic University of Valparaíso, delivered a detailed report on the received research papers and those selected that will be exhibited at the XXIX CAPIC Annual Assembly that will take place in Santiago, at the Alberto Hurtado University, between October 25 and 27, 2018. The representative of the Alberto Hurtado University also spoke about the organization and program of activities that will be carried out at said event.

Representatives from the universities of Chile, Bío-Bío, La Serena, La Frontera, Católica del Norte, Católica de Valparaíso, Alberto Hurtado, Austral de Chile, and Concepción were present at the meeting.

The celebration included the participation of the folkloric group “Cuarta y Lote” and the presentation “Fantasía de cuecas” by students of the institution.

Authorities, managers, academic and non-academic officials and special guests participated in the traditional National Holidays toast, organized by the University of La Serena, through its Human Resources Department.

During the activity and after the intonation of our national anthem, the Director of Human Resources, Dr. Héctor Bugueño Egaña, gave a welcome greeting to those present and pointed out that celebrating the National Holidays is a "way of building our cultural identity of transgenerational way; This is how the sense of Chileanness is built, in the decantation of what generates inclusion for us and that still gives us a certain univocity. Traditions and customs constitute a genuine opportunity to revitalize our affective ties within our families, among whom we share work spaces, among whom we enjoy the value of friendship”.

Dr. Bugueño also indicated that “by remembering our origins, our roots, by rescuing the legacy of our ancestors, we are participating in a process of transferring our cultural heritage. And preserving culture is a valuable catalyst and soul-healing exercise, but also a promise to strengthen our identity”.

The celebration of the 2018 National Holidays at the ULS included the participation of the folkloric group “Cuarta y Lote” and the presentation “Fantasía de cuecas” by students of Pedagogy in Basic General Education (Vanessa Contreras, Jhendelyn Ramos, Arlin Ramos, Nicole Rabanal, Macarena Castillo, Constanza Godoy and Nadia Soler), who delighted the attendees with their music and dances, respectively.

As in previous years, the Human Resources Department organized the traditional popular games, so that the members of the community could enjoy various cultural expressions. This is how Loreto Villalobos and Nicolás Plubins (mechanical bull), Natia Araya and Fernando Sotomayor (spinning top), Sandra Sacre and Miguel Araya (horseshoe shot), and Sandra Tarifeño and Fernando Sotomayor (emboque) were winners and received gifts from the university authorities.

There were also prizes for the couples who participated in the cueca competition, which were awarded by authorities and representatives of the Mutual de Seguridad.

The commemoration activity concluded with the delivery of refreshments to all those present.

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The digital initiative, which already has the approval of the Board of Directors and included in the program offering of the Postgraduate and Postgraduate Directorate, will be launched starting in 2019. Two of them will be under the b-learning modality and two in e-learning mode.

The University of La Serena and its Digital Campus unit are working on four Diploma Courses that have already been approved for implementation. This initiative is added to the training courses and undergraduate programs already carried out and will function as a complement for those who wish to expand their knowledge in the different areas on which each of them will focus. Specifically, the four Diplomas offered are “Diploma in University Education for Health Sciences” “Diploma in Teaching for Technical Vocational Training”, “Diploma in Didactics of Social Sciences” and “Diploma in Digital Marketing”. These Diplomas will be available at university.userena.digital.

Humberto Farías, head of Campus Digital, highlighted the importance of the diplomas at the University and the way in which it has worked to generate them, pointing out that these programs “are a new stage in the growth process of the University of La Serena in education to distance and continuous training, which began with the creation of the Digital Campus. We currently have one of the most modern platforms in the country, and we have already digitized subjects and electives for undergraduate students, as well as training courses, among other milestones. The above, added to a multidisciplinary team of professionals, allows us to launch this new offer of distance training programs within a framework of quality service."

For her part, Yanett Leiva, instructional designer of Campus Digital, indicated that “the University of La Serena, in accordance with the new social and economic context of the country and the world, in which Information and Communication technologies have become a tool that covers a large number of needs, makes continuous training programs available in e-learning (100% online) and b-learning (50% online and 50% in-person) modalities for development and specialization in different disciplines (… ). These Diplomas have been designed in compliance with the best quality standards.”

The Diploma in University Education for Health Sciences is an educational institution that aims to provide teachers with knowledge in methodologies linked to new technologies and their implementation. The duration of this diploma is 148 hours online and 12 hours in person and will require teaching in that area.

While the Diploma in Teaching for Professional Technical Training will provide pedagogical skills for professional performance focused on the training of professional technicians. Like the previous one, it will be divided into 148 hours of online work and 12 of in-person classes.

The Diploma in Didactics of Social Sciences aims to improve teaching strategies by applying didactic principles. This Diploma will be completely online and will consist of 160 hours of work.

In the line of commerce, the Digital Marketing Diploma aims to apply new and better e-commerce techniques, aiming at a better business positioning and the use of available technological tools. Like the previous diploma, this one will last 160 hours of online work.

Dr. Cristian Ibáñez, Director of Postgraduate and Postgraduate Studies, pointed out that “the new Diplomas come to satisfy a growing need for specialization that society demands and demonstrates the usefulness that technologies provide in the service of communication and continuous learning. The Digital Campus will not only allow people to carry out their studies from their homes but will also make it possible to make the time and moment in which they wish to acquire their new knowledge more flexible.”

The Diplomas will be available from the first semester of 2019, and with this the University of La Serena will take an important step in the continuity of studies of its professionals, offering study programs appropriate to the use of new digital technologies. For more information consult through This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Classes began on Friday, September 7 at the University of La Serena.

The Diploma in Didactic Innovation in Initial Teacher Training, taught by the ULS through the Integrated Pedagogy Management Unit (UGIP), aims to implement a program to strengthen the repertoire of didactic strategies for teacher educators who promote active learning and thus contribute to the implementation of curricular renewals in each of the pedagogical careers.

At the event, the academic coordinator of the UGIP, Dr. Sandra Álvarez, together with the program director, Dr. Rodrigo Ruay, welcomed the participants and explained the context in which this initiative was born and the foundations of the diploma.

“The Institutional Improvement Plan to improve teaching careers has been working for three years, meeting the demands of a national context that ensures quality education. This improvement aims at transversal actions in pedagogical careers, focusing on the professional development of teacher trainers, on improving infrastructure and spaces, and on having a new organization within the institution that allows responding to the needs of racing, among other challenges. Within one of its areas, the project contemplates contributing to the professional development of our academics, through courses, workshops, talks and especially graduates, such as these, which allow the work of our professors to be sustained over time through adequate updating. disciplinary and pedagogical”, explained Dr. Álvarez.

Dr. Ruay elaborated on the framework in which the program is located. “Academics find ourselves challenged by a new curricular architecture where the student is the protagonist, and there are three key principles of the curriculum that are part of the construction of knowledge that has already been developed; The first is the selection of what we are going to work on, and precisely the curricular culture invites us to look at the learning results and the diploma will be attached to that nomenclature (...); a second aspect is the organization and it is related to the performance levels of our students and today the curricula establish that the learning results should move from initial to deep performance (...); and a last concept, it has to do with the construction of knowledge, which has to be done together with the students. Therefore, the diploma course makes sense insofar as it helps to respond to how, starting in 2019, we lower our new curricular design of pedagogies, and you will be the first generation of graduates trained in this new approach”, he expressed.

In addition, on the occasion they introduced themselves to the team that will accompany them throughout the development of the modules, composed of Dr. © Nidia Slomp, coordinator of the Diploma, and the professors Dr. Hugo Tapia, Dr. Laura Espinoza and Dr. Haylen Perines .

The first session began with the presence of more than twenty teachers from the study house, who participated in the modules “Introduction to the Training Program” led by Professor Tapia, and “Flipped Classroom and its evaluation” led by Professor Slomp, in which the platform course and the flipped class teaching model were presented, respectively.

It is expected that, upon completion of the program, participants will be able to design and implement active learning methods based on the reflection of their own pedagogical practices and form multidisciplinary teams to support teaching in higher education, and accompany their peers. in improvement and innovation projects.

Diploma Master Class

On the other hand, on September 28, the official Opening Ceremony of the diplomas in “Didactic Innovation in the Initial Training of Teachers” and “Development of Competencies to Support Internships in the Labor Context of the FID” will be held at 15:00 p.m., in the Pentagon Room of the Andrés Bello Campus, Raúl Bitrán #1305, La Serena.

On this occasion, there will be the participation of Dr. Mario Sobarzo Morales, current member of the Executive Committee of the Chilean Observatory of Educational Policies of the University of Chile (OPECH), who will teach the master class “Challenges in Initial Teacher Training: A “view from innovation and pedagogical research.”

Source: Unit for the Integrated Management of Pedagogies (UGIP) | PMI FIP ULS1501 – CM ULS 1755