Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Camaguey, May 30th. - For the first time, the University of Camagüey Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz opens the career of Social Work, a profession that combines human commitment, scientific knowledge and transformative action.
From the next academic year, scheduled for September, the Major of Social Work will be offered in the weekend course mode, often fortnightly, and will last for five years. The classrooms will operate in the building of the Provincial Institute of Labor Studies (IPEL), located on Hermanos Aguero Street, in the heart of the city.
The pre-registration period will be from 3 to 21 June, in the teaching secretariat of the Faculty of Social Sciences (H-I building). Applicants must present: identity card, two card-type photos (1x1), title and upper middle-level photocopy, certificate of notes and official discharge if it comes from another university career.
Dr. María Teresa Caballero Rivacoba, head of the new academic program, highlights that 49 subjects have been designed to offer comprehensive training that allows future professionals not only to diagnose, but to transform social realities: Because social work is a necessity and a lack, she says.
Camagüey is no stranger to this field: she was a national pioneer in offering a Master's degree in Social Work from 1994 to 2010. However, it is now that this province concretes the opening of the university career, although it is already taught in 116 universities in Latin America.
The country's first challenge is to have the social worker as a professional, says Caballero Rivacoba, who has dedicated more than three decades to research and community work. For her, this new step implies recognizing the value of a profession that is not limited to attending, but promotes the active participation of social subjects without being intrusive, and transforms from closeness and empathy.
This program responds to a training debt to tens of thousands of people who, after the creation of the Social Work Schools promoted by Fidel Castro, did not find specific university continuity. Today, the opening of this career marks a historic moment, not only for the university, but for Cuba; because it aspires to model a professional with a vocation of service, social sensitivity and transformative spirit. (Text and photo: Forward Digital)
