Creation of Optional Courses
Ensuring the relevance of bachelor's study plans is a constant task of the University, which is carried out through the academic units. It is essential that within the academic units the work of the academies, academic bodies and other teaching groups is taken advantage of, to keep the study plans updated through processes of creating optional courses that ensure modern disciplinary training aligned with the current trends.
The creation of optional courses strengthens the training of students by addressing emerging topics that can be added to the curriculum in response to social and labor needs, as well as scientific and technological advances in the profession or that impact the profession.
Criteria for creating other optional courses:
a) Justification. The creation is derived from a work of reflection on the advancement of the discipline, therefore, it is important to consider analysis studies of the profession in terms of trends, scientific and technological advances, demands of productive vocations, the state, social problems, as well as expressions of graduates and employers that academic units periodically document.
b) Organization. The creation is an initiative of the academic unit and collegiate work must be privileged with the participation of at least two academics. In approved study plans, the participation of other academic units is put up for consideration where the person responsible for the educational program establishes communication with their counterparts, and they are the ones who make up and coordinate the design team, in addition to being the liaison with the Department of Support for Teaching and Research (DADI).
c) Authorship. The work of the creation process must be recognized and it will be necessary to place on the cover of the PUA the name and signature of the design teaching team and the person in charge of the subdirectorate in the academic unit.
d) Temporality. The recently created or modified study plans have included a set of optional learning units derived from the analysis of the profession and other references that contribute to the areas of knowledge. This option has been strategically distributed across all three
training stages of the plan, although at the time the learning units begin to be valid, it must be considered that several cycles may pass before the students take some of the optional subjects, so it is It is advisable to review its relevance at least six months before it is taught to identify possible needs
from a first or second level update.
e) Credits. Proposals for optional learning units can be made seeking that the balance of the theoretical and practical study facilitates mastery of a competence, however, it is recommended that it does not exceed 6 credits.
