An aspect of great importance for the Faculty is the recent creation of PhD programs. To date, there are three programs with current qualified registration, the Doctorate in History, created in 2014, the Doctorate in Philosophy, created in 2016, and the Doctorate in Social and Human Sciences, created in 2021.

For the second semester of 2021, the Faculty has 3,688 students (3,465 from undergraduate programs and 223 students from graduate programs).

To attend to the teaching, research and extension activities that result from the offer of these programs, the Faculty has a staff of high quality professors. In total, it is supported by 99 full-time teachers.

The professors of the Faculty have formed 19 research groups recognized by the Universidad Industrial de Santander. The PSORHE group, classified in category A1 by Minciencias; the groups Politeia, and Sacred and Profane classified in category A. In category B are classified 5 groups: HARED; GIDROT; G-PAD; ATHENA; EMAR; and, additionally, 3 groups are classified in category C: GIHENC; GLOTTA; and Cuynaco.  The research groups have led high-impact projects at the local, regional and national levels. In addition, it is considered important to highlight the effort of the groups to consolidate training for research with the creation and institutional recognition of 38 research seedbeds in the Faculty of Human Sciences.

In terms of social projection, members of the academic community of the Faculty of Human Sciences have led high-impact projects. An example of this is the creation of the Oral Archive of Memory of the Victims, led by Professor Ivonne Suárez Pinzón, from the School of History; and the participation of Professor Alexandra Cortés, from the School of Economics and Administration and Professor Gonzalo Ordóñez, from the School of Education, in the Bucaramanga Metropolitana Cómo Vamos program, led by the Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce.

As activities of social projection that are carried out from the Faculty, the existence of teaching practice, social practice, the Legal Office and Conciliation Center, music extension courses and the Pedagogical Accreditation program are highlighted. In the case of teaching practice, there are 21 agreements for the realization of internships for all undergraduate students of the University, established only with educational institutions of the public sector. Social practice, on the other hand, aims to forge processes of social transformation through the involvement of students in programs and projects in various fields of professional performance; each semester an average of 70 students contribute to this initiative. Additionally, the Legal Office and Conciliation Center is attached to the School of Law and Political Science and is part of the missionary process of institutional extension. In 2017, the Office served a total of 5,478 users. On the other hand, there are music extension courses, which are offered to the regional community, and formed in the second semester of 2017, a total of 189 students. Finally, there is the Pedagogical Accreditation program for non-licensed professionals, attached to the School of Education and which has, in the first semester of 2018, 49 students.

It is very important to highlight the work of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports, which serves undergraduate students with the subject Physical Culture and Sport, sports selections, sports contexts, the Sports Olympics and the Interroscas Tournament; the total number of UIS students attended during the first semester of 2018 is 4,972. In terms of social projection, the organization of the Athletic Race of the University stands out, which had 3,800 participants in its XXVII version carried out in 2017, as well as the administration of the UIS Gymnasium and the sports scenarios.

For its part, the Institute of Languages offers as its main service formal education courses (curricular program) and non-formal (extension program) in different languages: English, Portuguese, French and Italian. The Language Institute attended, during the second semester of 2017, a total of 3,162 students of the university in the curricular programs. Additionally, in 2017, the Institute served 4,317 students in extension programs.

It is important to highlight the regionalization work that has been carried out by the Faculty. As a high-impact project is the offer of the Master’s Degree in Pedagogy at the headquarters of Barrancabermeja and Socorro, while the Specialization in Public Management is offered at the UIS Socorro headquarters.

Based on the strengths described and the challenges posed by society, the Faculty of Human Sciences plans to consolidate itself in the offer of high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate academic programs, carry out relevant research, which achieves social appropriation of knowledge and execute extension activities that allow it to contribute to the resolution of social problems. Given the projection of the Faculty, the permanent improvement of its infrastructure has been proposed, in the medium and long term.

Deans Faculty of Human Sciences 1980 – 2022