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Since its foundation in 1978 as the School of Educational Sciences, the institution has seen an increase in the diversity of its programs, including Psychology, Communication Sciences, Sociology and History, as well as graduate programs which granted it the title of Faculty of Human Sciences in 1996.

The five educational programs of the Faculty are accredited by external institutions.

Correspondingly, the Faculty has implemented the graduate programs of Society and Power (Doctorate), Education (Masters), Psychology (Masters), Social Projects (Masters), receiving a national certification for the doctorate program and the Education and Psychology Masters, which are registered by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT).

The Faculty of Human Sciences is acknowledged for its promotion of regional social and human sciences knowledge production, throughout an exceptionally proficient academic staff, a numerous and critical student population, as well as a collaborative community aimed towards social service and the design and application of social and human development projects.

Educational Sciences Bachelors Degree

The objective of this program is to provide individuals with highly skilled
professional training aimed towards the study, critical analysis, and application
of knowledge on our educational reality to promote the development of
strategies to alleviate issues within this field.

Enrollment Requirements

Candidates must comply with the enrollment requirements of the University,
through the Office of Student Services and School Management.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Social Sciences ● Education ● Humanities ● General research techniques	Skills: ● Information management skills ● Reading, writing, and comprehension skills	Institutional Values: ● Interest in educational possibility development for individuals and communities ● Proactiveness aimed towards collaboration and the alleviation of issues within this field ● Respect towards diversity of ideas and sociocultural conditions ● Commitment to professional training and social development

Alumni Profile

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:
● Acknowledge, production, implementation and activation of different communication processes aimed towards equitable and broad social development.
● Activate interaction processes and social exchange between subjects and institutions.
● Develop research and dissemination projects on the characteristics, conditions and implications of communication phenomena in institutions, companies, groups and individuals, aimed towards the achievement of
balancing processes throughout meaning exchange and quality of life improvements.
● Produce and disseminate information throughout the communication systems: journalism, photography, radio and, in a responsible and ethical manner.
● Plan, design, and manage communication systems for public and private institutions and companies to achieve social development.

Professional Field

The Educational Sciences alumni are employed in public and private
institutions, which require the operational orientation of conventional or non-conventional education action.

Correspondingly, alumni of this program are prepared to collaborate with
elementary, secondary, and higher education institutions to design and
develop study programs, as well as their restructuration.

As independent professionals, alumni are trained to provide professional
assessment, evaluation systems, and innovative didactic material production.

Psychology Bachelors Degree

The objective of this program is to provide individuals with highly skilled
professional training aimed towards researching, explaining, and diagnosing
the dynamics of societies, throughout alternative promotion, plan management
and implementation, as well as intervention programs.

Enrollment Requirements

Candidates must comply with the enrollment requirements of the University,
through the Office of Student Services and School Management.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Social Sciences ● Mathematics ● Biology	Skills: ● Reading and Writing Comprehension ● Analysis and judgement ● Verbal communication ● Collaborative work ● Respect towards diversity	Institutional Values: ● Developing a rigorous and systematic understanding of human beings and their development ● Interest in personal development ● Responsibility, organization, and tolerance

Alumni Profile

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:
● Diagnose a psychological fact, process or phenomenon throughout systematic and organized analysis, aimed towards identifying its nature, prognosis, and potential intervention.
● Modify psychological facts throughout the application of methods, techniques and strategies common within this field, to promote health and human development.
● Alleviate social issues within this field throughout the reflection and dissemination of the achievements and perspectives of this discipline.
● Transform the work of the psychologist based on scientific and humanistic elements, the promotion of institutional values and the responsible development of personal, professional, social, and environmental practice.

Professional Field

The Psychology alumni are employed in public and private institutions, which
require health, educational, organizational and social management services,
as well as scientific knowledge production.

The Psychology alumni may also collaborate with elementary, secondary and higher
educational institutions, hospitals and health clinics, and public services
institutions and local companies for personnel selection, training and development.

As independent professionals, alumni are trained to provide psychological evaluation,
diagnosis, and intervention services.

Communication Sciences Bachelors Degree

The objective of this program is to provide individuals with highly skilled

professional training aimed towards promoting social interactions and
mediating social processes, throughout the technical-scientific production
and critical analysis of messages.

Enrollment Requirements

Candidates must comply with the enrollment requirements of the University,
through the Office of Student Services and School Management.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Social Sciences ● Humanities ● General Spanish orthography and syntax	Skills: ● Analysis ● Reading comprehension ● Willingness to acquire knowledge within the Social Sciences area ● Oral and written communication	Institutional Values: ● Interest in the professional practice of communication ● Willingness to establish interpersonal relationships ● Interest in major international, national, regional and local issues ● Responsibility, social commitment and respect for the diversity of ideas and lifestyles

Alumni Profile

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:

● Acknowledge, production, implementation and activation of different communication processes aimed towards equitable and broad social development.
● Activate interaction processes and social exchange between subjects and institutions.
● Develop research and dissemination projects on the characteristics, conditions and implications of communication phenomena in institutions, companies, groups and individuals, aimed towards the achievement of balancing processes throughout meaning exchange and quality of life improvements.
● Produce and disseminate information throughout the communication systems: journalism, photography, radio and, in a responsible and ethical manner.
● Plan, design, and manage communication systems for public and private institutions and companies to achieve development.

Professional Field

Communication Sciences alumni proficiently develop professional
activities in public and private institutions or organizations which require
establishing or improving communication systems, such as the media,
civil organizations, including teaching and research institutions.
As independent professionals, alumni can manage consulting and advisory businesses.

Sociology Bachelors Degree

The objective of this program is to provide individuals with highly skilled

Enrollment Requirements

Candidates must comply with the enrollment requirements of the University,
through the Office of Student Services and School Management.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Social Sciences ● Humanities ● Logical thinking skills	Skills: ● Reading comprehension ● Writing skills ● Ability to identify and organize Issues based on the analysis and synthesis of information ● Be flexible in the face of changing social and geographical environments	Institutional Values: ● Interest in relationships and interactions among individuals ● Interest in processes and structures that characterize social institutions ● Interest in general culture ● Intellectual curiosity ● Social commitment

Alumni Profile

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:

● Identify the basic objects of study: social facts, interactions, social actions, institutions and micro/macro social systems
● Explain, through the theories within this field, the different phenomena of social life.
● Develop theories about human reality aimed towards the interpretation of concrete social situations.
● Promote a wide general culture throughout social phenomena and facts.
● Social research collaboration, complying with institutional values, allowing identification and alleviation of diverse social interaction issues.
● Participate on the design and implementation of public policies aimed towards improving the living conditions of various social sectors.
● Develop teaching, research and cultural extension functions.

Professional Field

Sociology alumni proficiently develop professional activities in science,
research, independent consultancy, teaching and social promotion in the
public, private and social sectors.

Sociologists work in multidisciplinary studies, applying theoretical
methodological knowledge to alleviate specific social issues.

In private organizations, alumni perform analytical and transdisciplinary
intervention activities aimed towards the resolution of conflicts.

History Bachelors Degree

The objective of this program is to provide individuals with highly skilled
professional training aimed towards the critical analysis of regional historical
research. The program focuses on reinforcing teaching and project
management within history, social sciences and humanities.

Enrollment Requirements

Candidates must comply with the enrollment requirements of the University,
through the Office of Student Services and School Management.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Social Sciences ● Humanities ● Mexican History ● World History ● Regional sociocultural context	Skills: ● Oral and written communication ● Basic software management ● Reading comprehension ● Logical thinking and information research	Institutional Values: ● Interest in research and dissemination of knowledge ● Interest in the analysis of texts and primary documents ● Interest in the search for written and oral sources ● Interest in the critical analysis of historical processes ● Social commitment ● Respect towards other cultures and ways of thinking

Alumni Profile

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:

● Critically analyze historical processes according to theoretical-methodological references within this field, aimed towards the development and dissemination of knowledge.
● Develop research aimed towards knowledge dissemination in the diverse areas of history to better understand the past and its relationship with the present.
● Develop techniques, criteria and didactic resources in multidisciplinary groups aimed towards teaching history throughout pedagogical tools.
● Alleviate cultural issues throughout the design and implementation of media for the dissemination of cultural and historical heritage.

Professional Field

Historians proficiently perform professional activities in public sectors, such as
federal, state and municipal governments as well as decentralized agencies,
which require a professional within this field.

Correspondingly, they can develop research and dissemination projects in
the private sector, such as in the mass media, cultural industries, social
sector, political parties, non-profit associations, employer associations,
foundations and non-governmental organizations.

Education Masters Degree

This is a professionally-oriented program offered in the following Academic
Units:

● Faculty of Pedagogy and Educational Innovation (Mexicali)
● Faculty of Human Sciences (Mexicali)
● Faculty of Administrative and Social Sciences (Ensenada)
● Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Tijuana)

The Education Masters is a graduate program aimed towards alleviating the
issues within elementary, secondary, and higher education, as well as private
institutions, throughout academic staff, counselor, and administrator training.

General Objectives

Provide individuals with highly skilled proactive, innovative, socially responsible, and ethical professional training, in the areas of educational management and processes, aimed towards achieving professionalization within this field, to influence the strengthening and positive transformation of the educational environment.

Specific Objectives

● Provide spaces to reflect on the most relevant educational issues, aimed
towards theoretical proficiency, analysis, and proactiveness,
correspondingly developing innovative teaching, curricular intervention
and instrumentation, educational evaluation and school management
skills, founded on collaboration as well as information and
communication technologies.
● Provide methodological intervention training aimed towards alleviating
issues within this field, including educational management, as well as
continuous improvement supporting processes which impact the quality
of educational services and institutional development.
● Promote education-oriented institutional liaison scenarios, aimed towards
improving the student training process, as well as professional practice.

Candidate Profile
Basic Knowledge: ● Acknowledge modern educational theories ● Current context of secondary and higher education ● Information and Communication Technologies management ● Intermediate English language knowledge	Skills: ● Reasoning, analysis, and synthesis ● Reading comprehension/oral and written communication ● Development of independent study ● Research resources management ● Willingness for collaborative work	Institutional Values: ● Proactivity ● Commitment ● Responsibility ● Tolerance ● Honesty ● Respect

Alumni Profile

Education alumni proficiently develop professional activities in educational research, as well as alleviate practical issues within this field.

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:

Knowledge:
● Develop current and applicable educational and pedagogical models.
● Comply with state and national policies and programs of Education in terms of current and potential issues.
● Comprehend the state of the art regarding educational processes andmanagement.
● Understand the economic, political and social characteristics of development in Mexico regarding the educational process.
● Implement basic methodology to design and develop intervention projects.
● Acknowledge modern educational theories and currents, as well as their contextual application in secondary and higher education.

Skills:
● Design, organize and evaluate methods which innovate the educational process relevant to the context.
● Apply information and communication technologies effectivel throughout a psycho-pedagogical and ethical perspective.
● Identify relevant issues within this field.
● Develop intervention projects to impact the educational field.
● Locate, analyze, interpret and communicate relevant information on educational issues.
● Collaborate to identify and alleviate general and specific issues.

Institutional Values:
● Responsibility
● Ethics
● Autonomy
● Integrity
● Proactivity
● Innovation
● Collaboration
● Solidarity
● Respect

Psychology Masters Degree

The main purpose of this program is to provide social agents with highly
skilled professional training, throughout a methodologically structured
and precisely contextualized feasibility and social relevance assessment,
to design, implement, and evaluate psychological intervention projects
aimed towards the alleviation of current cross-border, national, and
international issues within this field, throughout active community liaison.

Knowledge Production and Application Areas

This graduate program is founded on the Knowledge Production and Application Areas of Psychological and Social Welfare, in matters of improvement on the development of prevention actions and strategies to increase quality of life, based on general assessment diagnoses on emotional intelligence, positive psychology, neuropsychology, and culture techniques; and Psychosocial and Community Intervention, aimed towards the dynamics involving individuals, groups, connections, and contexts in which they interact with broader systems.

Candidate Profile

Enrollment requirements include interest in the promotion of new behaviors and
relationships with social reality for various individuals, social groups, and
organizations. Correspondingly, candidates must be proficient in
qualitative and quantitative data management, technology management, as well as English
reading comprehension, throughout reflection, critical analysis, information, and
reasoning skills.

Interests: Knowledge and skill promotion aimed towards improving quality of
life and the resolution of conflicts between individuals, groups, organizations
and communities.

Basic Knowledge: Social sciences knowledge and its application on
quantitative and qualitative processes, as well as resource management, aimed
towards the creation of social conditions which positively impact psychosocial
environments.

Skills
Basic Skills: ● Reasoning and verbal comprehension ● Logical, numerical and abstract reasoning ● Reflective and critical capacity ● Ability to use information and communication technologies ● Reading and comprehension of texts in English ● Present evidence of reading comprehension skills endorsed by the Faculty of Languages	Specific Skills: ● Comprehend social Issues from a psychological perspective ● Diagnosis, individual, and group evaluation skills ● Application of psychosocial planning, intervention and evaluation methods ● Social conflict resolution skills	Institutional Values: Sensitivity and commitment to national and international social issues. Interest in alleviating vulnerable group well-being issues, in compliance with institutional values.

Alumni Profile

Psychology alumni are proficient in social and community interventions, optimization of psychological resources to increase welfare and quality of life, diagnosis of social Issues, theoretical and methodological foundations for the alleviation of social issues, funding identification and management. Correspondingly, psychologists are provided with highly skilled professional training on the evaluation of micro and macro-social issues, psychological processes associated with social phenomena, as well as design programs and projects of intervention in individuals and groups, in compliance with institutional values.

Knowledge:

● Identification of the relevance of a psychological approach in social and community interventions.
● Optimization of psychological resources to increase community well- being and quality of life.
● Detection and diagnosis of social and community psychological issues.
● Application of theoretical and methodological psychology foundations, aimed towards alleviating community issues, throughout social intervention.
● Understand the effectiveness and reach of social and community psychological interventions.
● Funding identification and management aimed towards alleviating issues within this field.

Skills:
● Macro and micro-social psychological issues evaluation aimed towards improving individual and community well-being.
● Evaluate psychological processes regarding social phenomena, aimed towards managing and promoting social issues prevention.
● Design, plan, manage and assure the quality of interventions within this field, throughout applied technical-methodological psychology research.
● Develop individual and group intervention programs, aimed towards positively impacting society.
● Intervene through projects which implement preventive, universal, and selective psychology methods.
● Evaluate the effectiveness of psychological interventions.
● Manage public or private funding resources for psychological intervention projects.

Institutional Values:
● Responsibility
● Ethics
● Proactivity
● Respect
● Solidarity

Social Projects Masters Degree

General Objectives

Provide individuals with highly skilled consolidated professional training aimed
towards the diagnosis and analysis of social issues in various fields to design,
manage and evaluate alternative solutions through social intervention dialogue
among the actors involved, acknowledging diversity, environment and historical context.

Specific Objectives

● Training from a conceptual and analytical base to identify and articulate
the elements regarding social and communication issues.

● Enable the implementation of procedural tools for diagnoses, analysis,
design, and evaluation of intervention projects from an integral
perspective.

Currently receiving applications from professional in the disciplines of History,
Sociology, Communication Sciences and related fields as well as those
professionals from non-related disciplines interested in social projects, in
compliance with current institutional regulations and the Graduate Studies
Committee.

Candidate Profile
Basic Skills: ● Contextual discipline knowledge. ● English language level A2, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. ● Spanish language level B1, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, for applicants whose native language is not Spanish. ● Information and communication technologies applied to education. Social Projects alumni are proficient in addressing social and communication issues in organizations, institutions, and the community.	The following are the expected skills to develop during the program: ● Diagnose and analyze social and communication issues. ● Handling conceptual, analytical and procedural tools. ● Proactive alternative solutions management. ● Implement intervention action plans. ● Evaluate intervention actions. ● Organize work groups. ● Collaborate in multidisciplinary teams. ● Perform independently, in compliance with institutional values.	Skills ● Reasoning, analysis and synthesis capacity ● Reading comprehension/oral and written expression ● Ability to develop the study independently ● Manage resources for the search of academic information Institutional Values: ● Sensitivity to social issues ● Willingness to develop teamwork ● Dedication ● Honesty ● Solidarity ● Respect

Society and Power Doctorate

The relationship of culture, space and power, which builds, sustains, and
transforms social life, are the core of this program, aimed towards
acknowledging the historical dimension of issues within this field.
Correspondingly, space is defined as context, environment, and scenario, a
fabric of relations, a network of interactions, and a field of forces which guide
the production and organization of geographical objects, spatial notions, as
well as representations and practices, based on the meanings which a
society establishes and normalizes.

However, the understanding of social processes, considered in their spatial
and symbolic dimensions, requires the understanding of power (resources
which social agents implement to achieve their ends); objectifying the
relationship between such agents, resulting in disproportionate access to
goods, services, and common heritage. Correspondingly, sustainability as an
aspiration to a dignified life in a just society which allows development in
healthy and safe environments, depends on the various forms and times
power is exercised..

Objective

Provide individuals with highly skilled multidisciplinary professional research training, aimed towards analyzing, interpreting and explaining social processes and phenomena from spatial and symbolic dimensions, observing the logic of power either diachronically or synchronously, with the support of theoretical-methodological contributions and analytical categories within the fields of geography, economics, sociology, communication, anthropology and history, contributing with original research aimed towards knowledge dissemination and the improvement of social welfare as a means to provide sustainability.

Knowledge Production and Application Areas

Power, time, and meaning.

This area analyzes and interprets social processes from the symbolic dimension, including the various resources which social agents implement in structured contexts; processes which can be observed at various scales and settings over time, such as: groups, organizations, communities, cities, territories or regions, in order to understand specific spatial configurations, and the active impact of medium and context in social life.

Space, society and sustainability

This area analyzes social processes based on the production and social construction of space, with emphasis on its interacting agents, capital, public policies, access to and management of available resources (natural, material, and human), as well as strategies which positively impact social welfare and quality of life in cross-border contexts.

Candidate Profile

In addition to meeting UABC regulations, candidates must prove sufficient
knowledge production area proficiency, as well as in the research process,
including theoretical reflection and reading comprehension skills in Spanish
and a second language (preferably, English), oral and written communication
skills, independent and collaborative multidisciplinary work, and willingness
to acquire knowledge unconnected to the discipline, in compliance with values,
such as honesty, respect for different opinions, perseverance,responsibility and pleasure for learning.

Skills

Knowledge:
● Main contemporary theoretical perspectives within social sciences.
● Theories that explain, from the power perspective, the symbolic and
spatial dimensions of social life.
● Social construction of scientific knowledge, its paradigms and
importance to human and social welfare.
● Most recent contributions regarding the selected research and ways of
approaching the study object.

Skills:
● Research, access, collect, systematize and critically analyze
information relevant to the study problem.
● Communicate oral and written scientific research information.

Institutional Values:
● Institutional identity.
● Responsibility and commitment to social welfare and sustainability.
● Willingness to establish collaborative relationships.
● Respect towards diverse criteria and stands.
● Tolerance and humility in the face of criticism.
● Reliability and persistence in graduate academic work.

Alumni Profile

Society and Power alumni are proficient in original and independent power, space, and meaning Social Sciences research development, aimed towards the dissemination of scientific knowledge to improve social welfare as well as sustainability.

The following are the expected skills to develop during the program:

● Identify relevant border research issues.
● Assume multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives which allow study and the explanation of social reality.
● Implement research methods in accordance with the objectives of the doctorate.
● Perform critical analysis of information.
● Research dissemination.
● Interact and dialogue with authorities in the field.
● Recommend solution strategies for the issues studied.
● Integrate adequately into multidisciplinary research teams, in compliance with institutional values.

Última actualización: 23 noviembre, 2020