Psychology

The Professional Profile of the Psychologist at the University of Cundinamarca is designed to train professionals with a solid foundation of knowledge in their field, capable of working collaboratively with professionals from other disciplines in a critical and ethical manner, understanding social phenomena, and leading processes that contribute to solving problems that arise in their community, thereby improving the quality of life in the region to which they belong.

The following competencies will be developed:

• Ability to interact socially with a sense of ethics, honesty, self-confidence, responsibility, and respect for different worldviews and human perspectives.
• Capacity to engage with its regional context and respond to the expectations of the environment through academic and professional contributions.
• Ability to manage the theoretical and disciplinary foundation necessary for the understanding of a bio-psycho-social and cultural human being, integrating and relating interdisciplinary contributions.
• Ability to integrate new technologies into psychology as a discipline and as a profession.
• Interpersonal skills that enable you to lead, facilitate, and energize social processes. The ability to apply psychological knowledge through the interpretation and understanding of individual, group, family, institutional, and relational psychological phenomena.
• Capacity to respond to the problems of social reality through research.
• Ability to work with teams from other disciplines, recognizing their contributions and strengthening teamwork to achieve common goals, while contributing expertise from one's own discipline.

The psychologist from the University of Cundinamarca possesses the knowledge and skills to work in fields of application of psychology in an ethical and methodological manner: educational psychology, community social psychology, organizational psychology.

Graduates will be able to work in hospitals, clinics, health centers, educational institutions, private and public companies, and in private practice.

In all educational institutions, a student guidance service shall be provided, the general objective of which shall be to contribute to the full development of the students' personality.

A professional specializing in human behavior, capable of managing the human resources department and applying a knowledge framework developed by science to an environment that demands a high level of competitiveness and qualifications.