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Comparison of the social focus of


commercial engineering degree
programs in the UOH, UCH and USACH:
Changes are needed
Institutions of higher education need to According to Olavarría, in the curricular
focus on the social environment around
reform of commercial engineering in the UCH,
them. As time goes by, social contexts
become more difficult to cope with and june 2015. The recent reform applied by UCH
thus to meet the needs of the population explains to us, there is a relationship between
as well as to recognize them, which is why having less economic subjects and more
universities should focus on subjects that humanist subjects manage to shorten the
provide a basis for future professionals. degree program and make the elective space
more flexible for allow students integrated
Introduction access to diverse knowledge and disciplinary
Based on what we know the commercial approaches, this is one of the significatives
engineering of other institutions do not have needs of the change, because humanist
so much social focus, their approach is more subjects allow students to realize there is
economical. (MOVE1 STEP2) Paredes and more than only numbers on theirs careers.
López (2007) found a way to analyze the
commercial engineering career meshes, in Is it necessary to know what we
order to define the career mesh at UCH understand by social Focus?
(MOVE 1 STEP3) but, in addition to being at There are not many studies about the social
different times, the approach is more general approach, but we have defined this as the
and not social. (MOVE 2 STEP 1A) For this social role that universities must fulfill, that is
reason we decided to investigate to confirm why we use the definition of public role that
the information we have through a "the strategic development plan" (2021,
comparative study of the curricula of only Universidad de Ohiggins) of the UOH offers:
three universities. (MOVE 3 STEP1A). "improve social mobility make people more
Review of literature supportive and give them greater
We began this project with a review of past opportunities to develop a life they value by
studies of the “curricular reform of motivating the search for knowledge and
commercial engineering in the UCH”, where development that contribute to the
10 universities were compared in order to understanding and solution of the main
determine the curriculum for the commercial problems of the region and the country"
engineering career. The UOH has a significative social Focus,
teaching and training their students on by part
of the nearby parts of the region,
demonstrating the importance of relationships
with surrounding communities.
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Teacher Ayleen Guzman

Method each university, in case of about the nearby


In Chile, business degrees UOH program degree of communities, how they live,
have a bigger economic 2019, Usach program degree what's are theirs needs and
focus, but they are trying to form 2022, and finally UCH issues.
change this at their own 2020 program degree ● Political economy: on this
rhythm. That is why we made subject students learn about
this study, it was based on a Results: how and why people live on
comparison of the thematic communities how theirs
Description of social subjects
of their program degrees. organized them and how
using the comparison. We
they trade with others
developed the social
communities.
Participants subjects based on the
● Social practice: on this
We made a comparison, descriptions of the subjects
subject students help nearby
this was conducted of of each college. We found a
institutions (Red Cross,
colleges degrees, of three few common subjects and
DIDECOs, children
important universities of placed them to be compared.
gardens,...) Learn how they
Chile, they are Universidad
work and try to help them.
de O'higgins(UOH), The comparison show us
● Territorial social project:
Universidad de Chile (UCH) there are six social subjects,
on this subject students help
and Universidad de Santiago this are:
nearby organized
de Chile (USACH).
communities.
● Introduction of social
● Insertion and territorial
Data collection and science: on this subject
development workshop: on
students learn about how
analysis people traded, from the early
this subject students help
The comparison took place other students of different
stages of humanity, through
from late August 2022, the careers with their
barter, to the use of coins.
participants were observed ● entrepreneurship or business
Regional social science: on
and the data was collected ideas.
this subject students learn
form the degree programs of

Table 1.
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As shown in table 1, students subscribed to 3. 3.https://www.uchile.cl/


universities are trying to get gratuity carreras/4966/ingenieria-
more social focus by making comercial
their students apply social Conclusion 4. 4.https://admision.usach.cl/
subjects to their degree carreras/ingenieria-
Our comparison confirms our
programs. The social subject comercial/
hypothesis that most
shared by the three 5. 5.https://www.uoh.cl/
universities do not have
universities is “political universidad/plan-de-
enough social focus.
economy”, but UOH has the desarrollo/
The commercial engineering
highest number of social 6. 6.https://
of University of O'higgins has
subjects. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/
a more social focus in
pdf/10.1002/piq.20055

Figure 2. comparison to the other


Universities, having 6
As shown in figure 2 UOH subjects in its meshing.
has a bigger quantity of
social subjects. Referencies
1. 1.https://www.redalyc.org/
One interesting finding was
pdf/646/64602303.pdf
the difference between the
2. 2.https://
universities where the
www.researchgate.net/
commercial engineering
profile/Vicente-Olavarria/
degree is placed, while
publication/
commercial engineering
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degree is placed, at the
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administration and business
al_en_la_U_de_Chile_Abrim
school of USACH and UCH,
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in contrast at UOH
/links/
commercial engineering
5a16c759a6fdcc50ade4ab5e
degree are placed at the
/Reforma-Curricular-de-
social sciences schools.
Ingenieria-Comercial-en-la-
This findings may help us to
U-de-Chile-Abrimos-o-no-
understand why at the UOH
abrimos-la-mirada.pdf
has a large percentage of

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