Students and campus officials enjoyed a pleasant day.

The Great Healthy Fonda 2016 “Healthy but juicy” was held in the University Park of the Isabel Bongard Campus, organized by the Department of Student Health of the DGAE and attended by students and officials from the U. of La Serena.  

The Department of Extracurricular Activities also participated in the inn with its Folklore Projection Group (COFULS), a group that delighted those present with a cueca performance and traditional dances. Casino and Cafeterias was also present with its stand, where it shared typical healthy food with everyone present.

Important was the participation of SENDA, whose representatives provided prevention information for these National Holidays and prepared non-alcoholic drinks for those attending the inn.

The General Director of Student Affairs, Mg. Miguel Zuleta commented that "this initiative generated by the Department of Health and shared by the other departments of the DGAE, is focused on the comprehensive training of our students, in which the soft skills of future professionals are promoted."

Source: DGAE

The traditional artistic cast is preparing to surprise the public once again with a show full of magic and skill.

As part of its 65th anniversary, the Mining Circus of the University of La Serena will offer the community a series of presentations in the tent installed in the Espejo de Agua sector of the city of La Serena.

The performances begin on Thursday, August 25 with the Debut at 20:30 p.m., while the Night of Remembrance will take place on Friday the 26th at the same time.

Two performances are planned for Saturday the 27th, the Matinee at 17:30 p.m. and a family function at 20:30 p.m. Finally, on Sunday the 28th it will be presented at Matiné at 17:30 p.m. and at the Gala at 20:30 p.m.

"We are very happy to invite you to our 65th anniversary, a celebration with a special touch, since we are also launching a new tent and we want to involve the entire student community and the region in this great show," said Karen Córdova, member of the grouping.

The student added that on this occasion they also have floor numbers such as juggling, fire, jumping and variety, as well as aerial numbers in which they stand out: simple trapeze, cloth and aerial hoop.

General admission costs 2 thousand pesos, and seniors, children and ULS students pay only 500 pesos.

It should be noted that the Mining Circus of the University of La Serena - dependent on the Dept. of Extracurricular Activities of the DGAE-, is the only circus show in the world performed by university students.

The elective that will be taught through the Digital Campus called Development and Management of the creative process, considers four pedagogical hours per week and is aimed at all students of the University.

Starting in the second semester, students at the University of La Serena will be able to access the elective “Development and Management of the creative process”, a completely online subject that is now available on the Digital Campus. http://campus.userena.digital.

For Mauricio Castillo, Coordinator of the Department of Extracurricular Activities, this initiative, “I was pleasantly surprised by the result. The work behind the development of this workshop exceeds expectations, a very well carried out work, we had several meetings in which our programs and the work of Digital Campus were adapted in a very interesting way. So we hope that the results are the same,” he says, adding that “the offer has been very well received by the students, who even had to support it with a second theory,” he assured.

For the Director of the DGAE, Mg. Miguel Zuleta, the main objective is “to give the best to our students, so that they do well and become good professionals. This course enhances creativity, is very well directed and will help students develop new skills that will be useful to them when they become professionals,” he noted.

The elective, which has four teaching hours per week, seeks to enable students to develop skills that allow them to generate creative solutions to the various situations they must face, diversifying their possibilities for creating and implementing ideas in their respective areas of knowledge.

Mauricio Juica, psychologist by profession and tutor of the subject, hopes that the students “experience the elective as something entertaining and challenging. The fact that it is 100% e-learning does not take away from its demands, and at the same time it includes several activities that involve playing, going outside, 'acting crazy'... seeing things from another perspective and, above all, creating," he explained. .

Likewise, the professional valued that the “University has opportunities to do innovative things for students and that it is open to new ways of teaching. I thank the team of professionals at Campus Digital and the DGAE for making this course possible.”

Finally, the Head of Digital Campus, Humberto Farías, indicated that “this subject is relevant in two dimensions, first it confirms the University of La Serena as a leading institution in the creation of educational content dictated in e-learning modality at the national, priority objective of the Digital Campus. And it is also evidence of the concern to offer its students different modalities that allow them to develop their training process within a framework of quality and flexibility,” he assured.   

How to register?

The registration period is from August 03 to 19 and is carried out in the same way as the rest of the subjects corresponding to the second semester, that is, through the Phoenix platform.
To access Campus Digital, the student must do so with their @alumnosuls email, where they will receive the access account to our platform.

If the student does not have their institutional email, they must request its creation from the Information and Computing Center (CICULS).

Source: Digital Campus

The allocation of benefits is carried out considering compliance with the general and specific requirements for each of them, according to the socioeconomic evaluation of each case and the budget allocated for it on a semiannual basis.

The General Directorate of Student Affairs (DGAE) informs ULS students that the application process for internal scholarships from the Department of Student Welfare has begun, a period that will last until August 19.
 
All students who wish to apply for benefits for the Second Semester must complete the form available on the Phoenix student platform, gather the supporting socioeconomic documentation and deliver the form plus the background information to the social worker of each campus within the established period.
 
Students may apply for a maximum of two benefits (1st and 2nd option), but they may be assigned only one benefit.
 
The allocation of benefits is carried out considering compliance with the general and specific requirements for each of them, according to the socioeconomic evaluation of each case and the budget allocated for it on a semiannual basis.
 
Any questions should be directed to the social worker on the university campuses.
 
For more information, visit the website http://dgae.userena.cl/, where downloadable material about the process is available.

Source: DGAE

The group from the University of La Serena obtained first place in this meeting.

The District Tuna of the University of La Serena, made up of students and alumni of the state campus, and dependent on the Department of Extracurricular Activities of the DGAE, had an outstanding participation in the First National Contest of University and District Tunas, held in the city of Antofagasta.

In this event, organized by the University of Antofagasta, the District tunas of the universities of Chile, Valparaíso, Católica de Valparaíso, Católica del Norte, La Serena and the host institution participated, as well as the Tuna Universitaria of the University Federico Santa María Technique.

La Tuna that represented the ULS was musically directed by Douglas Álvarez and won the awards for Best Pasacalle, Best Bandera and First Best Tuna; the latter, a prize that is awarded to the prickly pear that adds the greatest number of points among all the categories to be evaluated and final presentation on stage. The other categories that were evaluated were: Best Tambourine, Best Instrumental and Best Soloist.

The first place was obtained by the Tuna District of the U. of La Serena, while the UCN group took second place and the University of Chile took third place.

This contest is part of the activities of the National Circuit of University and District Tunas (CNTUD). The Second National Contest of University and District Tunas will be held in 2017 and the Tuna of the ULS will be in charge of organizing this great event.

Source: DGAE

This Saturday, April 30, the members will meet to present “Harmonías de un nuevo amanecer”, a musical work that contains a variety of rhythms such as pasodobles, cuecas and other Latin American sounds.

It is part of the serenense history to see in its streets the haunting of university punks who cheer people up with Spanish songs and sounds. Among them, the first tuna made up of women in the Coquimbo Region stands out, the Tuna Femenina Azahares of the University of La Serena, a group that will celebrate its twelfth anniversary with the presentation of its first record called “Harmonías de un nuevo amanecer”. this Saturday, April 30 at Club La República, in La Serena.

The head of the Tuna Femenina Azahares, Camila Rivera, invited the entire community to participate in this event. "On Saturday, April 30, we have the launch of the first album by the Tuna Femenina Azahares from the University of La Serena, financed under an FDI project from the Ministry of Education, so we invite you all," said the member of this group dependent on the Department of Extracurricular Activities of the DGAE.

After a long recording process in "Estudio 14", located in the regional capital and whose production was in charge of the sound engineer Mauricio Lermanda, the album brings rhythms typical of Spanish art, where voices and instruments stand out, as well as some Latin American ones such as joropos, Peruvian and national waltzes such as the cueca. “In this first album we wanted to incorporate a variety of rhythms for all tastes. When we made the selection of themes, we remember the birthdays, marriages, celebrations of so many people who have not hired. Well, now they will be able to have those songs in hand and remember those beautiful moments that they spent with our music”, explained the musical director, Sylvia González.

In addition to presenting and promoting the musical album, the attendees will also get to know and be part of the traditional acts of the art of tunar, which have been maintained and proliferated in different countries of Europe and America for more than two centuries. The event will be attended by the Tuna San Bartolomé from the University of La Serena and the Tuna Romanceras from the University of Santiago, who will also share with the guests stories of rounds, typical of the rascal.

The invitation is for this Saturday starting at 21:00 p.m. at Club La República, located at Eduardo de la Barra #489, next to Plaza San Francisco. The entrance is free.