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- Title
Perspectiva de los egresados sobre la pertinencia académica del Programa de Diseño Visual.
- Authors
Lubert, Carmen Dussán; Ospina Toro, William; Ruíz Ortega, Francisco Javier; Montoya Londoño, Diana Marcela
- Abstract
The results of the pertinence study conducted by the Academic Vice-Rector’s Office about the undergraduate Visual Design Program at Universidad de Caldas are presented in this article. Objective: to know the perception of the graduate students about institutional aspects such as the quality in their educational process, institutional and program competences. Methodology: descriptive research of non-experimental nature whose target population consisted of all the students graduated from the Visual Design program at Universidad de Caldas 2010 – 2014 (193 people). A non-probabilistic sample formed by 130 people who voluntarily answered the survey sent to their e-mails was taken. The Mann-Whitney U Test was used to carry out the comparisons between the valuations given by graduate students to the competences between what they perceive they have and what the working environment demands. Results: 76.2% of the graduate students are currently working, and 80.8% of them work as professionals in the field of visual design. 42.3% of the professionals found jobs in their discipline 11 months after graduation, and almost one third of the total (32.3%) were already working before their graduation. The visual designers of Universidad de Caldas work in institutions such as museums, city halls, universities, construction companies, design businesses, aviation enterprises, shopping malls, factories, etc. 72.3% of the professionals rate the academic quality of the Program as high or very high. Conclusions: the study found that the number of professionals that find working alternatives in enterprises of the region and the city of Manizales has increased. In general, the graduate students positively value the quality of the program, but it is necessary to offer short-term and medium-term programs (diploma courses, specializations), whose contents lead to the most recent issues in which the visual designers need training.
- Subjects
ENTREPRENEURSHIP; GRAPHIC design education; UNIVERSIDAD de Caldas
- Publication
Kepes, 2016, Vol 13, Issue 13, p9
- ISSN
1794-7111
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17151/kepes.2016.13.13.2