The UDEM is the only institution in northeastern Mexico offering a Bachelor of Psychopedagogy program. The professors of this program hold PhD's in curriculum, educational psychology, mathematics teaching, and reading and writing teaching. Students also receive a theoretical-practical education through the agreements made with renowned regional educational institutions (from preschool up to university).

Objective

To shape professionals who will contribute to the study of educational processes used in schools and within the family. They will collaborate with educational institutions to solve personal formation problems by capitalizing on the experience acquired in our own institution. They will also open spaces for research, leading to the improvement of educational processes. In addition, they will continue the UDEM's 40 year old tradition of offering professional, up-to-date formation in all areas of education by drawing on the intellectual capital of our university¿s excellent faculty, both in the area of education and in the areas of psychology, humanities, and the social sciences.

Enrollment Profile

The students who enroll in this program want focus their future professional activity toward serving children and young people. They also show a heightened sensitivity for human and social problems.

Graduation Profile

Upon completion of their undergraduate degree, the students will have developed five skills, which are respectively associated to five curricular fields:

1. Administrative management of the educational institutions. 
2. Implementing academic support programs. 
3. Educational consulting. 
4. Advising and training. 
5. Coordination of activities within an educational community.

They will also have developed the following knowledge, skills, and attitudes:

Knowledge of: 

• The elements of an educational community. 
• Characteristics of students with special educational needs. 
• Profiles, functions, and responsibilities of the educational community members. 
• The characteristics of the growth stages of children, adolescents, and adults and of normal human development. 
• Learning models and theories. 
• Design and implementation of development projects. 
• School guidance concepts and tutoring actions. 
• Models for implementation, supervision and assessment of educational projects. 
• Models and methods of Psychopedagogical assessment. 
• Elements of a teaching-learning process and design of instructional models. 
• Psychoeducational intervention models. Definitions, elements, and types of psychoeducational consulting, psychological interviews, conflict management, psychological counseling, and psychopedagogical assessment and file keeping. 
• Theories and types of interpersonal communication. 
• Principle types of developmental problems. 
• Training models for adults. 
• Consulting types and forms for educational institutions. Types, forms and problems generated in educational communities. 
• Main theories of human resources management in educational institutions. 
• Family in today¿s society including the types of families, the roles of the family members, and potential problems within a family.

Skills for: 

• Developing general cognitive reading processes (Spanish and English). 
• Preparing documents and searching for information on the following topics: phrasing and oral expression, searching for, selecting and processing information, analysis, and synthesis. 
• Skills that make excellent students and professionals: critical judgment, problem solving/decision-making, transferring from theory to practice, teamwork (cooperative learning), interpersonal relations (conflict solving), and tasks focus. 
• Psychopedagogical intervention: 
  • Project planning and assessment and leadership ability. 
  • Application of didactical techniques: use of methods and tools. 
  • Design and assessment of the teaching-learning process: management, techniques and motivation.
  • Preparation of Psychopedagogical assessment reports. 
  • Interpretation of Psychological and Psychopedagogical assessment reports. 
  • Design and implementation of community projects. 
  • Negotiation ability. 
  • Adaptability to change.

Attitudes: 

• Openness to new alternatives, strategies, etc. 
• Critique/reflection. 
• Responsibility. 
• Human service. 
• Regarding academic work: 
  • Enthusiamsm. 
  • Intellectual curiosity. 
  • Team/personal work. 
  • Respect for audiences. 
• Regarding interpersonal relations: 
  • Equality. 
  • Desire to put in more than the minimum effort. 
  • Honesty.

Each UDEM curriculum is made up of two blocks of courses:

• Professional studies, these are the specialized, professional courses that make each degree plan unique.
• General studies, these are the courses that provide a general and interdisciplinary overview. 

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CREDIT SUMMARY
MANDATORY	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	36
	Professional studies	222
	Total mandatory credits	258
ELECTIVE	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	18
	Elective courses for professional concentration	24
	Elective courses in other disciplines	12
	Total elective credits	54
TOTAL CREDITS		312

Bachelors of Psychopedagogy (LPP) will be prepared to work in elementary, middle, and high schools as well as in universities, in the departments of Psychopedagogy, student support centers, school counseling programs, and in designing solutions for students with school related difficulties.

The field of work also includes psychopedagogical support offices, which offer their professional services to students requiring off-school support to assure their future good performance in high school and universities.

Luis Fernando Márquez

Martínez

LPP Academic Program Director

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luis.fernando.marquez@udem.edu.mx

Building 5, office 5402

 

T. (81) 8215-1278

01 800-801-UDEM, ext. 1278