postgraduate
Master's Degree in Didactics of the
Language
In-depth
.
.
.
ABOUT THE
Program
The Master’s Degree in Didactics of the Language of the UIS trains highly qualified educators to make didactic decisions that favor language learning. To achieve this, the program is based on three axes that constitute its curricular design:
Training in the mastery of pedagogy and didactics, which involves the theoretical and methodological training of the educator in the understanding of the dynamics of learning around the mother, second or foreign language.
Training in applied research to improve the conditions and qualities of mediation in language teaching.
Training in the mastery of scientific analysis of language in relation to language and culture.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 102255 | Qualified registration: MEN N.° 5898 of June 7, 2019, validity 7 years.
DEGREE:
Master in Language Didactics
DURATION:
4 semesters (2 years)
MODALITY::
In-person
CAMPUS
Main Campus Bucaramanga
DEGREE:
Master in Language Didactics
DURATION:
4 semesters (2 years)
MODALITY:
In-person
CAMPUS:
Main Campus Bucaramanga
APPLICANT
Profile
Applicants to this in-depth training program must necessarily assume the stages of cognitive, procedural and attitudinal profiling in the investigative and in-depth nature, not only of didactics and linguistics, but also of social sciences and educational sciences articulated in an analysis of needs located in real environments.
Applicants to the Master’s degree are university professionals, preferably in one of the language or education sciences, who possess high communicative skills in at least one foreign language and a strong capacity for the production of scientific documents. The Graduate Programs Advisory Committee (CAPP) of the School of Languages may authorize the admission of professionals trained in sciences other than language and education, depending on the results of the admission tests and the correspondence of the graduate’s profile with the applicant’s interests.
GRADUATE
Profile
Graduates have the necessary competencies to perform as education professionals with the required knowledge and attributes to carry out planning, execution and evaluation of didactic processes for the teaching-learning of the language (mother tongue, second or foreign) framed in an understanding of the socio-cultural environment of the actors involved in the educational practice.
LABOR
Field
The graduate will be able to:
Perform, autonomously, processes of search and critical analysis of information related to education in the language domain.
Strengthen, autonomously and with a metacognitive perspective, personal competencies in the handling of language, communication and the exercise of teaching.
Generate scenarios of participation of the social actors in the communicative dynamics of the processes of language learning mediation.
Express, with the metalanguage of the sciences of education and the sciences of language, the understanding and interpretation of didactic processes of language and sociocultural environments in which educational practice takes place.
Analytically problematize concrete situations of language learning.
Enunciate, in an organized and scientific approach, the analysis of problematic and complex situations that require educational interventions for the improvement of the quality of learning in the language and communication domain.
APPLICANT
Profile
Applicants to this in-depth training program must necessarily assume the stages of cognitive, procedural and attitudinal profiling in the investigative and in-depth nature, not only of didactics and linguistics, but also of social sciences and educational sciences articulated in an analysis of needs located in real environments.
Applicants to the Master’s degree are university professionals, preferably in one of the language or education sciences, who possess high communicative skills in at least one foreign language and a strong capacity for the production of scientific documents. The Graduate Programs Advisory Committee (CAPP) of the School of Languages may authorize the admission of professionals trained in sciences other than language and education, depending on the results of the admission tests and the correspondence of the graduate’s profile with the applicant’s interests.
GRADUATE
Profile
Graduates have the necessary competencies to perform as education professionals with the required knowledge and attributes to carry out planning, execution and evaluation of didactic processes for the teaching-learning of the language (mother tongue, second or foreign) framed in an understanding of the socio-cultural environment of the actors involved in the educational practice.
LABOR
Field
The graduate will be able to:- Perform, autonomously, processes of search and critical analysis of information related to education in the language domain.
- Strengthen, autonomously and with a metacognitive perspective, personal competencies in the handling of language, communication and the exercise of teaching.
- Generate scenarios of participation of the social actors in the communicative dynamics of the processes of language learning mediation.
- Express, with the metalanguage of the sciences of education and the sciences of language, the understanding and interpretation of didactic processes of language and sociocultural environments in which educational practice takes place. Analytically problematize concrete situations of language learning.
- Enunciate, in an organized and scientific approach, the analysis of problematic and complex situations that require educational interventions for the improvement of the quality of learning in the language and communication domain.
Academic
Curriculum
Code: 26744 Credits: 4 – Theories of language learning
Code: 26745 Credits: 3 – Semiotics, Language and Culture
Code: 26746 Credits: 4 – Linguistics
Code: 26747 Credits: 3 – Education and ICT
Code: 26744 Credits: 4 – Theories of language learning
Code: 26745 Credits: 3 – Semiotics, Language and Culture
Code: 26746 Credits: 4 – Linguistics
Code: 26747 Credits: 3 – Education and ICT
Code: 26752 Credits: 4 – Language Didactics II
Code: 26753 Credits: 3 – Evaluation Processes
Code: 26754 Credits: 3 – Applied Linguistics II
Code: 26755 Credits: 3 – Application work I
Code: 26756 Credits: 4 – Elective Seminar
Code: 26757 Credits: 7 – Application Work II
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
| Bucaramanga | |||||
1st Semester 2024 * Subject to demand | Tuition payment begins Tuition payment deadline Academic registration begins Academic registration deadline Classes begin | January 22, 2024 January 26, 2024 January 26, 2024 February 2, 2024 February 2, 2024 |
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
|
SPECIFICS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM
|
|
Inscription # S.M.M.L.V. Tuition fees per semester # S.M.M.L.V. Academic fees per semester # S.M.M.L.V. |
 |
The university has a mechanism through which the financial obligations of a student can be partially or totally covered by a company or entity that wishes to support the student. Also, various forms of payment have been arranged so that students can combine the available forms of payment according to their particular conditions. On the page “Start registration process” you will find the available options. Additionally, to facilitate access to postgraduate programs, the UIS has signed various agreements with entities specialized in educational credit. These agreements seek facilities and better credit conditions for UIS students. * Students who have the voting certificate from the last popular election process in Colombia may request a 10% discount on tuition fees. |
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
1st semester
2024
*Subject to demand of the program.
Bucaramanga
Tuition payment begins
Jan 22, 2024
Tuition payment deadline
Jan 26, 2024
Academic registration begins
Jan 26, 2024
Academic registration deadline
Feb 2, 2024
Classes start
Feb 2, 2024
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
- UIS registration form duly completed and signed.
- Resume, it has to be done in the UIS format established institutionally for this purpose, with the attachment of the certificates and copies of documents that corroborate what is described in it.
- Photocopy of valid identity document valid in Colombia or valid passport for foreigners.
- Recent document type photo, preferably in digital format, white background 3×4.
- Photocopy of the diploma or Photocopy of the undergraduate degree certificate required by the program, issued by a recognized HEI in Colombia.
- Notice 1: If the applicant has a degree from a foreign university, it must be duly apostilled and translated into Spanish if it is in a foreign language.
- Notice 2: The degrees must be validated by the Ministerio de Educación Nacional of the Republic of Colombia in case the applicant is going to study a master’s degree in the area of health, law or any other area regulated by national regulations that require this administrative act.
- Certificate of the grades obtained during undergraduate studies, with a weighted average equal to or higher than three point fifty (3.50), and those of the research or in-depth master’s degree programs completed.
- Notice 3: In the case of UIS undergraduate alumni, it is not necessary to provide it.
- Receipt of payment issued by the UIS treasury for the current value of the registration or receipt of consignment in the account authorized by the UIS.
SPECIFICS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM
- AA
- BB
- CC
- Notice A: All the documents listed above must have a digital version in PDF in order to complete the online registration process.
- Notice B: All documents must be submitted physically. To hand the documents in, please go to the postgraduate office of the program in the city where you wish to take the academic program or to the offices of the entity with which the UIS has an agreement with.
- Notice C: When physical documents are submitted, additional documents that you consider relevant for the admission must be attached.
- Notice D: On the page “Start the registration process” the formats to fill out the requested documentation can be downloaded.
Inscription
0,25 S.M.M.L.V.
Tuition fees per semester
1 S.M.M.L.V.*
Academic fees per semester
6,5 S.M.M.L.V.
The university has a mechanism through which the financial obligations of a student can be partially or totally covered by a company or entity that wishes to support the student.
Also, various forms of payment have been arranged so that students can combine the available forms of payment according to their particular conditions. On the page “Start registration process” you will find the available options.
Additionally, to facilitate access to postgraduate programs, the UIS has signed various agreements with entities specialized in educational credit. These agreements seek facilities and better credit conditions for UIS students.
* Students who have the voting certificate from the last popular election process in Colombia may request a 10% discount on tuition fees.
OUR
Faculty
Edwin Argiro Zapata Ortiz
Research
Groups and Hotbeds
AGREEMENTS
and allies
The UIS has established different agreements with national and international entities in order to have a greater impact on their training, teaching, research and related processes in the articulation of the public university with the different social actors.
Do you want more information?
Contact Us
Master’s Degree in Didactics of the Language
PBX: +57 (607) 634 4000
Phone extension: 2737
Email: madil@uis.edu.co
UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address: carrera 27 #09 (Ciudad universitaria)
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
Primer piso
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday
8:00 a.m.- 12:00 m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
Master’s Degree in Didactics of the Language
PBX: +57 (607) 634 4000
Phone extension: 2737
Email: madil@uis.edu.co
UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address: carrera 27 #09 (Ciudad universitaria)
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
Primer piso
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday
8:00 a.m.- 12:00 m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us
Master’s Degree in Didactics of the Language
PBX: +57 (607) 634 4000
Phone extension: 2737
Email: madil@uis.edu.co
UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address: carrera 27 #09 (Ciudad universitaria)
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
Primer piso
Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.