Course General Description

Desde mediados de los años setenta, la Maestría en Planeación Urbana y Regional MPUR, de carácter interdisciplinar, ha formado profesionales para atender las necesidades disciplinares y profesionales del país y de la academia en este campo. En lo disciplinar, fortaleciendo la formación del arquitecto y la de profesionales de otras áreas relacionadas con el urbanismo, mediante contenidos asociados al análisis territorial a diferentes escalas para la formulación de planes. En lo profesional, el programa se enmarca en la normatividad colombiana en la que se inscribe la formulación de los Planes de Ordenamiento Territorial. Ello supone la necesidad de capacitar profesionales capaces de identificar y analizar las problemáticas y dinámicas urbanas y territoriales para definir propuestas de ordenamiento o transformación, teniendo en cuenta las variables geográficas, sociales, económicas, ambientales, políticas y de gestión.

School General Description

The Pontifical Javeriana University is a Colombian institution and one of the oldest universities in South America, running continuously since its formation in 1623. As well as the core university in central Bogotá, there is also the Javeriana University in the southwestern city of Cali. Javeriana is one of 28 universities on the continent run by the Jesuit organisation Friends of Jesus, whose founder Francis Xavier is for whom the university is named. There are a total of nineteen faculties of study at Javeriana, with scientific sectors such as medicine or engineering, and humanities based areas such as the faculties of architecture and theology. In 2003 Javeriana was accredited as a high quality learning institution by the Ministry of National Education, the first university in Colombia to achieve this. At the faculty of nursing the research groups conceptualisation and practice of nursing have been formally recognised for its excellent research by innovation institute Colciencias. Students at the faculty can take either a general nursing or specialised undergraduate degree, as well as a master's in nursing care for the elderly.