undergraduate
Social Work
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about the
Program
Social Work is the profession-discipline that aims to knowledge the problems, interrelationships, and social processes with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations, to identify alternatives of professional intervention that promote human well-being, change, and transformation towards a more just, democratic, participatory and respectful society of human rights.
The problems faced by Social Workers in their field of performance include social and political violence, environmental deterioration, family violence, deteriorating health, educational problems, poverty and social exclusion, gender inequity, forced displacement, unemployment and underemployment, human rights violations, population with disabilities, intercultural conflicts, violation of children’s rights, among others.
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The problems of knowledge, the notion of scientificity in Social Work are professional identity, professional intervention, theory-practical articulation, and the becoming of the social sciences.
Bucaramanga, Santander: SNIES 693 | Qualified Registration: Resolution of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional No. 1217 of January 28, 2016, valid for seven (7) years.

DEGREE:
Social Worker

DuraTiOn:
10 Semesters

Education LEVEL:
Undergraduate Program

ModaliTY:
In-person

CAMPUS:
Central Campus, Bucaramanga
- Applicant Profile
- Graduate Profile
- Labor Field
- Our Accreditations
APPLICANT
Profile
The applicant for Social Work must be a person:
- With notorious skill in human relationships, that allows him to easily relate to every level of the population.
- With a good level of abstract reasoning that facilitates the understanding and analysis of the social reality being intervened.
- No difficulty with reading comprehension.
With the ability to express yourself verbally and in writing.
Proven emotional maturity.
GRADUATE
Profile
The graduates of the academic program of social work from Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) are professionals with skills-oriented towards the know-how and knowing how to coexist:
- They have self-awareness, critical and self-critical ability, and professional identity.
- They can make responsible and creative decisions based on critical judgment, transparency, honesty, respect for others, and professional ethics.
- They apply and commit to the difference and the right approach in their relationships with themselves, with others, and with the environment.
- They have the ideological capacity and interpersonal skills that allow them to relate to different cultures and population groups.
- They can work in interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and interagency teams.
- They are sensitive, committed, and responsible for the transformation of realities, problems, and social needs that are the subject of research and intervention by the profession, according to the principles of equity, social justice, and sustainability.
- They can propose solutions to problems and conflicts in various socio-cultural contexts.
- They promote the autonomy of subjects in the development of social processes.
LABOR
Fiel
The intervention fields of a social worker are:
- Comprehensive social protection (health, old age, disability, social inclusion).
- Collective action and organizational management (social organizations, neighborhood contexts, organizational networks).
- Territory, Environment, and Human Habitat (territorial planning, environmental planning, risk and disaster management, socio-ecological conflicts).
- Conflict, victims, and peace processes.
- Organizational management (management of corporate social responsibility, human management, environmental management, business management)
- Educational management and guidance (social intervention in the formal education sector)
- Family and Networks (prevention and protection for children, adolescents, or elders aimed at strengthening family ties and guaranteeing rights).
OUR
Accreditations
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Renewal of the latest high-quality accreditation: Resolution of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional No. 021323 of November 11, 2020 for six (6) years.
APPLICANT
Profile
The applicant for Social Work must be a person:
- With notorious skill in human relationships that allows him to easily relate to every level of population.
- With a good level of abstract reasoning that facilitates the understanding and analysis of the social reality being intervened.
- No difficulty in reading comprehension.
- With the ability to express yourself verbally and in writing.
- Proven emotional maturity.
GRADUATE
Profile
The graduate and the graduate of the academic program of undergraduate social work of the Industrial University of Santander, is a professional with skills oriented in the know-how and know-how to live together:
- He has self-awareness, critical and self-critical ability and professional identity.
- It is able to make responsible and creative decisions based on critical judgment, transparency, honesty, respect for the other and professional ethics.
- It appropriates and commits to the differential and rights approach in its relationships with itself, with the alterity and with the environmental environment.
- It has dialogical capacity and interpersonal skills that allow it to relate to different cultures and population groups.
- It is able to work in interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and interagency teams.
- It is sensitive, committed and responsible with the transformation of realities, problems and social needs that are the subject of research and intervention of the profession, according to the principles of equity, social justice and sustainability.
- It is able to propose solutions to problems and conflicts in various socio-cultural contexts.
- It promotes the autonomy of subjects in the development of social processes.
He is a professional with competence in the know-how and know-how to perform work and project himself with the following profile:
- Describes, explains, interprets and understands social realities from the theoretical and epistemological framework of the social sciences and profession in particular, through research processes for social transformation and change.
- Know and understand the systematization of experiences and methods of intervention to overcome social problems of subjects, families, groups, communities and organizations
- It elaborates situation analysis based on the critical and reflective reading of individual, family, group and community reality.
- It designs proposals for social intervention in the different fields, levels and areas of action of Social Work, within the framework of sustainable human development, human rights, gender equity and the participation of individuals, groups, communities and organizations.
- It provides participatory policies, plans, programmes, projects and social services that favor the protection of subjects and communities in exclusion, risk and social vulnerability.
- Understand management principles that enable you to manage or manage social organizations and services with a social responsibility approach.
- Learn about the processes of articulating supportive and institutional social networks to overcome social problems of subjects, families, groups, communities and organizations.
Labor
Field
The intervention fields of a social worker are:
- Comprehensive social protection (health, old age, disability, social inclusion)
- Collective action and organizational management (social organizations, barrial contexts, organizational networks)
- Territory, Environment and Human Habitat (territorial planning, environmental planning, risk and disaster management, socio-ecological conflicts)
- Conflict, victims and peace processes
- Organizational management (social management-CSR, human management, environment management, business management)f. Educational management and guidance (Social intervention in the formal education sector)
- Family and Networks (prevention and protection for children, adolescents or older adulthood aimed at strengthening family ties and guaranteeing rights)
OUR
Accreditations
Renewal of the latest high quality accreditation:
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Renewal of the latest high-quality accreditation: Resolution of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional No. 021323 of November 11, 2020 for six (6) years.
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Academic
Curriculum
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- 5°
- 6°
- 7°
- 8°
- 9°
- 10°
- Electives
Code: 26146 Credits: 3 - Cultural and Social Anthropology
Code: 26145 Credits: 4 - History of Social Work
Code: 24948 Credits: 0 - University Life and Culture
Code: 23427 Credits: 3 - Language Workshop
Code: 23424 Credits: 4 - English I
Code: 23423 Credits: 1 - Physical and Sports Culture
Code: 26150 Credits: 3 - General and Evolutionary Psychology
Code: 26149 Credits: 3 - Sociological Theories
Code: 26148 Credits: 3 - Epist. of the Social and Human Sciences
Code: 26147 Credits: 4 - Foundations of Social Work
Code: 23425 Credits: 4 - English II
Code: 26155 Credits: 2 - Political philosophy
Code: 26154 Credits: 3 - Social psychology
Code: 26153 Credits: 3 - Contemporary Sociology
Code: 26152 Credits: 4 - Research foundations
Code: 26151 Credits: 4 - Individual and Family Social Work
Code: 26160 Credits: 2 - Political Systems
Code: 26159 Credits: 3 - Psychopathology
Code: 26158 Credits: 3 - Sociology of the Family
Code: 26157 Credits: 7 - Statistics and Quantitative Research
Code: 26156 Credits: 4 - Social Work in Groups and Networks
Code: 26165 Credits: 3 - Gender
Code: 26164 Credits: 3 - Fundamentals of Economics
Code: 26163 Credits: 2 - Political constitution
Code: 26162 Credits: 4 - Qualitative research
Code: 26161 Credits: 6 - Social Work, Community and Social Organizations
Code: 26171 Credits: 2 - Labor Law
Code: 26170 Credits: 3 - Human Rights, Conflict and Democracy
Code: 26169 Credits: 2 - Family Law
Code: 26168 Credits: 2 - Social pedagogy
Code: 26167 Credits: 3 - Demography
Code: 26166 Credits: 2 - Professional ethics
Code: 00053 Credits: 3 - Interdisciplinary Elective Subject
Code: 26175 Credits: 3 - Review and Social Security
Code: 26174 Credits: 3 - Social Problems and Development
Code: 26173 Credits: 3 - Social Management
Code: 26172 Credits: 4 - Integrated Social Work Methodology
Code: 00052 Credits: 3 - Disciplinary Elective
Code: 00002 Credits: 2 - Optional Subject
Code: 26178 Credits: 3 - Social Problems and Social Policy
Code: 26177 Credits: 3 - Project Management
Code: 26176 Credits: 4 - Systematization of Experiences
Code: 00052 Credits: 3 - Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary subject
Code: 00002 Credits: 3 - Optional Subject
Code: 26179 Credits: 12 - Social Work Practice I
Code: 22975 Credits: 3 - Final Undergraduate Work I
Code: 26180 Credits: 12 - Social Work Practice II
Code: 22977 Credits: 7 -Final Undergraduate Work II
Social / Interdisciplinary Research Software
Public Gender / Disciplinary Policies
Corporate / Disciplinary Social Responsibility
Thinking / Interdisciplinary Skills
Integrated Management / Interdisciplinary Systems
Occupational / Interdisciplinary Health
Regional / Planificación interdisciplinaria
Emerging Approaches to Social / Disciplinary Work
Social / Disciplinary Movements
Development / Disciplinary Communication
Forced / Disciplinary Displacement
Environment / Disciplinary
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Additional Information
- Registration
- Requirements
- Costs
1st semester 2023 ![]() * Subject to demand |
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Collection opening 2022 Oct 14 Collection closing 2022 Dec 2 |
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Registration opening 2022 Oct 18 Registration closing 2022 Dec 6 Admission results 2022 Dec 15 |
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Additional requirements
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Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS

Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
KEEP IN MIND
Additional Information
- Registration
- Requirements
- Costs
1st semester
2023
* Subject to demand

Bucaramanga
Collection opening2022 Oct 14
Collection closing
2022 Dec 2
Registration opening
2022 Oct 18
Registration closing
2022 Dec 6
Admission results
2022 Dec 15
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Anyone who meets the following requirements may register:
- Having passed the tenth grade or being in the process of doing so.
- Having taken the Saber 11 State Examination as of 2017.
- A minimum score of 31 points in each of the tests that make up the State Test: Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, Natural Sciences and English.
NOTICE 1:For applicants exempted from the English test, according to Article 1 of Decree 34 of 1980 of the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, only the scores in Mathematics, Critical Reading, Social and Citizenship, and Natural Sciences will be taken into account.
NOTICE 2: Applicants are warned that the use of fraudulent means of any kind in the enrollment and/or admission process disqualifies them for a period of 5 years to be enrolled and/or admitted in any academic program of the University, without prejudice to any penal sanctions that may apply according to Acuerdo N° 017/95 del Consejo Superior.
A person may not register, even if he/she complies with the above requirements and if he/she does so, his/her registration will be cancelled:
- He/she is enrolled in any academic program of studies at the UIS.
- He/she has a disciplinary sanction in force at the UIS.
- He/she has lost student status for poor academic performance on more than one occasion.
- He/she is applying to the same program of study from which he/she was excluded due to poor academic performance or has not renewed enrollment in said program.
- He/she has initiated without concluding studies, more than one Academic Program at the UIS. No person may attend more than two undergraduate programs at the UIS. Article 5, Agreement 16 of 2008 of the Superior Council.
NOTICE 3:In case of being admitted, the student who obtained his bachelor’s degree abroad or its equivalent, must submit the validation of the degree to the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, if you have not done the procedure enter this link
Inscription
$100.000
FOR 1 PROGRAM
Inscription
$150.000
FOR 2 PROGRAMS
Each semester is settled according to the economic capacity of the family unit. It ranges between 1 and 8 minimum legal wage(s) in force.
Maximum 2 programs per enrollment.
For more information, please contact the Admissions and Academic Registration Office
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Social Work School
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Extension: 2244 – 2245
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UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address:
Cra 27 calle 9, Ciudad Universitaria. Edificio Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda.
Universidad Industrial de Santander

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us

Social Work School
Phone: +57 (607) 6344000
Extension: 2244 – 2245
WhatsApp: (+57) 312 4751 794
Email:
esctrs@uis.edu.co

UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address:
Cra 27 calle 9, Ciudad Universitaria. Edificio Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda.
Universidad Industrial de Santander

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Do yo want more information?
Contact Us

Social Work School
Phone: +57 (607) 6344000
Extension: 2244 – 2245
WhatsApp: (+57) 312 4751 794
Email:
esctrs@uis.edu.co

UIS Central Campus
Bucaramanga, Santander
Address:
Cra 27 calle 9, Ciudad Universitaria. Edificio Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda.
Universidad Industrial de Santander

Office hours:
Monday to Friday
7:00 a.m. – 12:00 m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.