Professionals from the APRENDE and PACE ULS programs taught a workshop focused on citing a source in a written work.

Male and female students from the Civil Environmental Engineering and Civil Engineering in Mining programs at the University of La Serena participated in the APA Standard workshop, carried out by professionals from the APRENDE and PACE ULS programs.

The objective of this instance was for students to be able to apply references and citations in APA or “American Psychological Association” format, in their academic works.

Paula Vargas, psychologist of the AES Component of the PACE ULS Accompaniment Program, explained that these norms “can be defined as a set of standards created by the American Psychological Association with the objective of grouping the way in which written works are presented at a global level. , designed particularly for degree projects or any type of research document.”

Along these lines, Mauricio Juica, psychologist of the APRENDE ULS Program, detailed the objectives of holding this workshop. “Basically, it sought to enable students to know and apply references and citations in APA format in the preparation of works, research, reports and other writings in a university context; fundamental knowledge for them.” And he added that “we hope that the students who participated in this instance know the structure of citations and references in APA format, as well as apply the format in the production of texts and differentiate the use of the APA standard according to the sources to be used. at the time of citing.”

When inquiring about holding the workshop, the professionals indicated that both the APRENDE and PACE programs are open to receiving requests to teach workshops for the four faculties of the house of higher education.

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program

With the presence of the Academic Vice-Rector of the ULS, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, the Executive Director of CUECH, Marcela Letelier, the Regional Director of SENADIS, Jorge Juárez, and authorities from different institutions, the work day around to disability and its problems.

With the active participation of representatives from more than 13 universities in the country, the meeting of the Inclusion Network of State Universities of Chile began, with a clear objective: to unite the criteria to work on the issue at the national level and show the work carried out by the University of La Serena, in a sustained project, called ULS1799 “Comprehensive support for ULS students within the framework of inclusion and universal accessibility.”

The Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, was present at the event, representing the Rector of the ULS, who assured that “these instances of collaboration support the sense of responsibility that the State universities have, and aware of this, our maxim is continue the democratization of knowledge for everyone. This democratization best summarizes our objectives; However, how to do it is the complex part, and for this there are instances like these, which come to reaffirm the work we are already doing, share experiences and with them build better university guidelines.”

In addition to the 13 institutions that participated in the technical work tables, the Regional Director of SENADIS, Jorge Juárez, was present, who made a presentation regarding the advances, challenges and guarantees that the State provides to people with disabilities and to the accessibility in different university courses. “We want to end welfare because it hinders processes that are important for progress and what real inclusion means,” he mentioned.

In the development of the activity, the technical table worked on the supports and adjustments that must be made within the higher education institution, specifically in the field of teaching. “The Network meets 3 times a year, and on the occasion that we did at the University of Chile, we developed the special entry route, a proposal that will be delivered to the Ministry of Education and that at this table will be sanctioned to go to other topics,” said the coordinator of the inclusion project at the University of La Serena, Dr. Georgina García.

Likewise, the representative of the rectors of the 7 state CFTs that exist at the national level, the Rector of the CFT of the Coquimbo Region, Manuel Farías, was emphatic in pointing out that one of the principles they have as centers is to have an inclusive and “Being so does not only have to do with physical spaces, but rather eliminating other types of barriers and having curricular openness. We work in a model called training by competencies, where learning objectives are rigorously sought and these can be achieved in different ways. In our case, we do it before each semester of work, where our professionals and academics learn about these components. of inclusion.”

The collaborative work included the participation of the Executive Director of CUECH, Marcela Letelier, who said that “for us as a Consortium, which sees many areas, we must see the specificities established by Law 21.094, where it recognizes the mission and duty of the state universities on this topic. "We have to have much greater knowledge, evaluate the work of the Network and project it into the future."

Finally, the organizers of the meeting thanked everyone who was able to participate and called for continued collaboration online.

Written by Patricia Castro, Dircom

The programming of this event includes the participation of 7 university publishers that, together with Ediciones UC, will participate in FILUNI 2019.

The Publishing House of the University of La Serena will benefit from funds that will allow it to finance the attendance - during the entire duration of the event - of two people from the Publishing team at the III International University Book Fair (FILUNI), which will be held at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), in Mexico City, between August 25 and September 2 of this year.

The project corresponds to an initiative that is framed in the agreement signed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the direct beneficiaries, among which is the University of La Serena. Said study house (PUC) applied for the ProChile contest, Exporter Promotion Project, which grants 50% of a project. The other 50% is financed by Chilean university publishers.

The programming includes the participation of 7 university publishers that, together with Ediciones UC, will participate in FILUNI 2019, setting up a stand in which different publications from these publishers will be exhibited, hoping to publicize the production of Chilean universities, strengthen ties - through co-editions - with the rest of the university publishers in Latin America, to position and market Chilean university books in Mexico and the rest of Latin America.

For Alejandro Abufom, in charge of the ULS Publishing House, this initiative “is part of the international projection plan that we are developing in our Publishing House. Attending these fairs is very important because of the contacts that are made there.” And, furthermore - adds Abufom - “it complements what we are already doing on the web, by gradually placing our entire catalogue, in digital and paper versions, available to readers around the world, on different global platforms, such as , Amazon.”

The publishers included in the project are: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Universidad de La Serena, Universidad de Talca, Sociedad de Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Editorial Universitaria, Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso de la Pontificia Universidad Catholic of Valparaíso and Alberto Hurtado University.

Written by Jenifer Araya, DIVEULS

The event will take place next Saturday, August 10, and will feature the participation of 10 educational establishments from the regions of Atacama and Coquimbo.

With the aim of generating a meeting space between eighth grade students around the discussion of ideas and experiences that can be developed through the contents of the different workshops that will be held on this occasion, in addition to participation in the Mathematics Olympiads, the third version of the JOMAT ULS day will be held, an activity that is sponsored by the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Postgraduate Studies of the university and will have 34 students from different pedagogy careers as part of its team of volunteers. of the institution.

For the director of the JOMAT ULS Program and academic of the Department of Mathematics, Professor Diego Contreras, “this activity allows us to strengthen the teaching identity of the pedagogy students who are part of the team of volunteers, who prepare weeks in advance in the planning and development of the different workshops that take place during the day. In addition, it allows the teachers of the educational system who accompany their students during the activity to return to the University, demonstrating the high level of commitment that exists on the part of the graduates with their undergraduate careers.”

Among the scheduled activities, the morning session includes two didactic workshops focused on the contents: “Pythagorean Theorem” and “Multiplicative Principle in Probability”, where the objective is to bring mathematics to everyday situations that in Most of them are not treated in the classrooms of educational establishments. On the other hand, in the afternoon the Mathematics Olympiad competition will be held, where the establishments will participate in the different knowledge tests that will culminate in the Grand Final, crowning the new champion JOMAT ULS, which had the winners in its Previous versions at Colegio Santa Teresa de Illapel (2018) and Liceo Santa Marta de Vallenar (2017).

It should be noted that this year there will be ten educational establishments from the Atacama and Coquimbo regions that will participate in the activity, among which are the Liceo Santa Marta (Vallenar), the American School (La Serena), the Andrés Bello Pampa School (La Serena), the English Catholic School (La Serena), the Sacred Hearts School (La Serena), the Calasanz School (Coquimbo), the María de Andacollo School (Coquimbo) the Miguel de Cervantes School (Coquimbo), the Santa School Teresa (Illapel) and the Teresa Cannon School of Barroileth (Los Vilos).

Those who wish to attend the Mathematics Olympiad competition can do so from 14:30 p.m. to 16:00 p.m. for the Group Stage and then from 17:00 p.m. to 18:30 p.m. for the Grand Final, an activity that will take place on the School premises. Sacred Hearts of La Serena (Vicuña N°586). Confirm attendance by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The exercise was part of the work of the Cinematographic Language chair of the second year of the FACSE degree.

With the aim of showing what was developed in classes through the different techniques seen in the subject of Cinematographic Language of the Journalism degree at the University of La Serena, taught by the teacher and filmmaker Kamila Véliz, the students of said chair presented their Cinematographic Pitch of documentary projects focused on various social problems.

On the occasion, the students of the subject, which is taught for the first time as it is part of the renewed plan of the ULS School of Journalism, presented their documentary projects based on the construction of a dossier and audiovisual teaser of each initiative. , which showed themes from the contingency of feminist movements, responsible pet ownership, the visibility of the trans community within the University, among others.

The Director of the School of Journalism, Mg. Cristian Muñoz valued the activity, pointing out that they “allow young people to be linked to complex issues, which are part of our reality. These relevant practices end up being relevant to the graduation profile that we want to give to the degree.”

Regarding the process, the teacher and filmmaker Kamila Véliz pointed out that “as future social communicators, the objective of the class is that they can communicate through cinema, that they can do it through cinematographic language, take those elements and communicate either to through reports, documentaries, through the different genres that cinema can deliver.”

The presentation of the projects was attended by an evaluation commission made up of Paula Tapia, creative director of Agencia Voces, and Fernando Tapia, in charge of Culture of the Directorate of Linkage with the Environment and Extension, DIVEULS, who highlighted the work carried out by the teacher and the student body.

“The work they are doing is a necessity, a totally necessary exercise for people who are going to be in direct contact with the community. I feel that the teacher and the School of Journalism are doing a very good job, which I believe, as a career, has a lot to contribute to the Coquimbo Region,” said Fernando Tapia, from DIVEULS.

The exercise was part of the work of the Cinematographic Language chair of the second year of the Journalism degree at the University of La Serena.

Written by Consuelo Peña, School of Journalism

Academics from the university participated in the presentation of the results of this evaluation, which is contextualized in the new regulations established by Law 20.903 that creates the Teaching Professional Development System.

In a meeting organized by the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies (UGIP) of the University of La Serena, the institutional results obtained in the National Diagnostic Evaluation of Initial Teacher Training, carried out in December 2018, were presented. all the students of the pedagogy courses of the university, who were twelve months away from their graduation year.

In general terms, the results achieved in the didactic evaluation stood out, where better figures were obtained in relation to the national average. 

The Coordinator of the Initial Teacher Training Area of ​​the Center for Pedagogical Improvement, Experimentation and Research (CPEIP), Rosa Miranda, was the one who delivered the results and indicated that “the University of La Serena must be able to study these results in greater detail, identify the most important shortcomings and work on training plans and the way in which they are taking care of the way in which there have been fewer achievements.”

Given this evaluation, the work proposed by the University is to work individually with each pedagogy career through its authorities in order to generate improvement plans in the areas with greatest deficiencies according to the results obtained.

“We must develop, together with the different units and careers, work instances and workshops where the deans are considered together with their management teams and generate a schedule of actions with clear and specific objectives and, above all, real, not venturing to "to achieve 'utopian' situations, which allow us to deliver good skills to our students," indicated the Academic Vice-Rector of the university, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, regarding the commitment to be faced by the ULS.

Finally, the Director of the Integrated Pedagogy Management Unit, Dr. Fabian Araya, shared the way in which they will seek to improve the indicators obtained in this evaluation. “It is very interesting to know these results, because with this one can do specific work with the races. I think that the great challenge is to work with the pedagogical careers directly, it is not always possible due to their calendar, but our strategy is for professionals from our unit to be directly related to the careers, and the only way is to do workshops by careers based on the standards of each of them.”