This bachelor allows the University of Guanajuato to position itself as part of the developing institutes with programs to form people so they can incur in Guanajuato's educational field.

Its singularity relies on the creation of specialists in education, capable of developing a critical thinking about the field as well as to perform in planning, management, design and reform of educational practices.

The bachelor was evaluated while running, this provided the rise of a new curricular proposal that updates the first version and keeps its original sense and structure.

For this purpose, a permanent following and evaluation seminar rose, and allowed recovering the students, graduates, employers and professors vision.

Form reflexive professionals capable of researching and using the knowledge creatively in different scopes of the educational process, design and management of new alternatives and trends in education tending to optimize individual potencialities as well as a more just and equative society.

• Knowledge and general culture accordingly to the graduate profile in high school education.
• Basic academic abilities such as written language, analysis, synthesize and reasoning ability.
• Calling for the educational field.
• Calling for the service and support of others.
• Empathy with people in need of support.
• Responsible attitude, commitment and service.

Some competencies relate to the aim of the bachelor in education:

• Form reflexive professionals.
• Research and use knowledge creatively.
• Understand different dimensions of the educational process.
• Problem-solving knowledge application.
• Capability to design and manage new educational alternatives.
• Develop individual strengths for a just and equitable society.

The job opportunities for the graduate in this bachelor are found in institutions inside the education system and coordinating entities who dictate the educational policy such as the "Secretaría de Educacion de Guanajuato (SEG)."

In such virtue, in every educational institution, entity or academic unit that has direct or indirect contact, be that public or private, there are possibilities to find work for experts in Education.

The education being a permanent, complex and continuous process for life which develops in many shapes, stages and circumstances; its action transcends in every closed and formal space beyond "school". This implies a diversity of government and nongovernment organizations, as well as, cultural, sports and social spaces among others. Of course, in them, a graduate in Education can work.

Some institutions require several education specialists. Such is the case of the University of Guanajuato because in its academic units and dependencies, wishfully needs experts in education, who support the planning and prospective plans; educative management and policy, educative orienting and calling, communitarian development, curricular design, education management and teaching, among others.

Its modality is a credit system.

The study plan is organized, in a suggestive manner, in eight enrollments, divided in two large phases: basic and deepening, each one with four enrollments.

Basic phase of the study plan

The basic formation phase covers 23 subjects and has 160 credits, without considering the optional subjects that the student could course. Its purposes are: know the foundation for the educational thinking, strengthen the tools of academic work, propitiate the development of the research skills, create awareness of the educational problems realities and favor the development as a person. This way, it favors the questioning and purposeful attitude, as well as the ability to plan questions to be addressed in later curricular spaces.

Based in the previous, the basic phase divides in two axis:

• Conceptual-theoretical axis. This axis divides into four formational areas: philosophical, social-cultural, psycho-pedagogic and educational integration.
• Methodological axis. This axis divides into four formational areas: basic skills, computing, methodology and research and academic tutoring.

Check the curricular map of the Basic Phase

Deepening phase of the study plan

This phase is found in the last four enrollments of the major, covers 9 mandatory subjects and 10 selective, giving a total of 19 subjects, which in credits translates into 66 and 58 respectively, summing up 124.

Here we found the methodological and contextual-theoretical axis. The methodological axis seeks to consolidate the formation in practical and methodological aspects that allow them to confront and study the theory with reality, forming for research and to develop the degree work.

Check the curricular map of the Deepening Phase