SOCIAL WORK
| Professional Degree: |
| Social Worker |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Social Work |
| Code: |
| 30066 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Mg. Sandra Pérez Infante |
Program Information
The Social Work program at the Universidad de La Frontera is a vocational training program, which leads to the professional title of a Social Worker. The emphasis lies on the educational project, the multidisciplinary and intercultural perspective, and the academic excellence offered to the students.
A Social Worker, graduated from the Universidad de La Frontera, is a professional in social sciences with a solid theoretical, practical and methodological training based on fields of knowledge and / or disciplines such as social work, psychology, anthropology, sociology and law, among others. His comprehensive training and acquired competences enable him to work in an ethically and socially responsible way for human development and solving social problems in areas such as social intervention with families, groups and urban and rural communities; management and evaluation of social programs and projects; human resource and welfare service management; or in free professional practice (mediation, social expertise, consultancies).
Occupational field
Public and state sector in municipalities, regional government (Intendancy, governance, regional ministerial secretariats and services), health (hospitals, specialized clinics, family and community health centers, community health programs), education (schools, universities, professional institutes, student support and welfare services, teaching), justice (family courts, public criminal defender, legal assistance corporations, police, National Service for Minors (SENAME)), housing (Housing and Town Planning Service (SERVIU)).
Companies of the private sector (employees welfare, human resources), non-governmental organizations (NGOs especially linked to the rural and local development), consulting firms, Technical Training Organizations (OTEC), Social Housing Management Organizations (EGIS),Technical Support Service (PSAT).
Free exercise of the profession as an independent consultant, advisor and executor of research and / or development projects, mediator, social expert.
PSYCHOLOGY
| Professional Degree: |
| Psychologist |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Psychology |
| Code: |
| 30064 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Mg. María Pía Godoy |
Program Information
A Psychologist, trained at the Universidad de La Frontera, is a professional with a solid theoretical basis and basic scientific training. This is why he is qualified to:
• diagnose and evaluate human behavior from a psychological perspective;
• design, apply and evaluate psychological intervention strategies in different areas;
• analyze, design and develop research activities;
• address the personal, group and organizational levels in the fields of clinical, educational, working-organizational and social-community psychology.
Occupational field
A Psychologist, graduated from the Universidad de La Frontera, can work in private and public institutions in different areas. For example: health, education, justice, production, social development, among others.
JOURNALISM
| Professional Degree: |
| Journalist |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Social Communication |
| Code: |
| 30091 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Nadia Arias Vega |
Program Information
A Journalist, trained at the Universidad de La Frontera, is a communications professional, whose main functions are to manage and produce information for the analysis, planning and implementation of communication tasks in the fields of journalism, institutional communication and communication consultancy. He has a solid disciplinary training in communication sciences and knowledge of communication research methodologies. Both, his disciplinary and professional training, enable him to integrate himself in a proactive, critical and socially responsible manner into work teams, in accordance with the dynamics of social, cultural and technological change in complex multicultural, plural and democratic societies.
Occupational field
A Journalist, graduated from the Universidad de La Frontera, will be able to work in the media; in internal and external communication in the administration of the state and the private sector, and creating and / or integrating himself into communications consultancy agencies.
SOCIOLOGY
| Professional Degree: |
| Sociologist |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Sociology |
| Code: |
| 30092 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Dr. Ignacio Rodríguez |
Program Information
Our students receive a theoretical and methodological training, which allows them to develop a high reflexive and critical capacity to understand, analyze and explain the complex social reality in its local, national and global dimensions, through quality scientific research, with social responsibility and being ethically committed.
Occupational field
A Sociologist, graduated from the Universidad de La Frontera, is qualified to work in the fields of social research, organizational development, and project design, formulation and evaluation. He/she can do that in different establishments, such as: social research centers, universities and other establishments for higher education, companies, consulting firms, CSOs, NGOs, organizations with social, community-based, educational and cultural purposes, public institutions; or he/she can work in municipal management, territorial planning, among others.
ENGLISH TEACHING
| Professional Degree: |
| English Teacher |
| Academic Degree: |
| Graduate in Education |
| Code: |
| 30056 |
| Duration: |
| 10 semesters |
| Study arrangements: |
| Semi-annual, daytime, semi-flexible curriculum |
| Director: |
|
Mg. Olga Ulloa Sepúlveda |
| pedagogiaingles.ufro.cl |
Program Information
English is the most spoken second language in the world and nowadays, its proficiency is a significant requirement forbeing able to compete in superior education and job opportunities. This is why it is fundamental to have well-trained educators in this specialty, since we live in a globalized world, where English is the language of innovation, science, technology, the internet, business, economics, diplomacy and education, and plays a major role in the postgraduate development in numerous fields.
Occupational field
The English Teaching program at the Universidad de La Frontera is part of the Teacher Training School of this educational establishment and completes the training offer for teachers in the scientific and humanistic area. The aim of this program is to form teachers with an advanced level in English and with solid knowledge of the universality of this language.
The graduates of this program are professionals in teaching, with the skills to socially and educationally stimulate and facilitate the learning process of English as a second language, in order to successfully face the scientific and technological requirements in the knowledge society by demonstrating a high level of communicative competence and a critical and reflexive interpretation of knowledge and culture in the development of their teaching function, always considering the current theoretical and practical knowledge of the English language.