Professional profile:

The Specialist in Comprehensive Early Childhood Assistance is competent to:

• Develop an analytical and reflective thinking which allows them to promote the application of care strategies relevant to early childhood characteristics.
• Design social and community intervention proposals responding to the needs of the context.
• Develop the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams and formulate proposals which benefit the target population.
• Perform actions regarding children’s health promotion and prevention.
• Apply the regulatory framework relative to early childhood protection issues from an approach of rights and attention to diversity.
• Understand the Other’s characteristics, from a perspective of recognition and appreciation of cultural, ethnic and contextual diversity through the application of inclusive practices.

Addressed to

The Specialization program in Comprehensive Early Childhood Assistance is pointed towards graduates in education, social science professionals, health sciences and other professionals interested in strengthening their knowledge and skills in early childhood care or participating in programs of initial education.

Occupational profile

Our Specialists in comprehensive assistance to early childhood are people who stand out for being:

• Reflective, agents of change and proactive, trained to design comprehensive assistance strategies consistent with the charactheristics and needs of early childhood.
• Competent as to take leadership when formulating and managing projects related to early childhood assistance. Able to design and execute proposals from a holistic vision on children.
• Able to educate families, caregivers and other agents about accompanying, stimulating and protecting during early childhood. They will have an inclusive vision which allows them to value diversity as an inherent characteristic of the human being, developing and participating in enabling actions of social inclusion which, at the same time, permit to recognize the development alterations that might arise; providing impact-minimizing strategies in the lives of boys, girls and their families.
• Ideal as to form and guide interdisciplinary teams of care and research in the area of early childhood, to know and justify the bases of the legislative framework regarding early childhood rights and protection issues from an approach pointed towards rights and assistance.

Admission Requirements Undergraduate Programs

Admission requirements New In-person and Virtual Undergraduate Applicant

To enter any of the undergraduate programs offered by María Cano, the new applicant must complete the following procedure:

1. Fill out the online registration form
2. Make the payment of undergraduate registration fees $213.022
3. At the end of the registration form, upload to the platform the following documents one by one (in PDF format) as indicated at the end:

• Photocopy of the high school degree certificate or diploma, if you have not yet completed grade 11, original study certificate, issued by the school valid for no more than one month.
• Results of the ICFES tests (Saber 11), if you do not have the results you can attach the citation to the test.
• A legible photocopy of the identity document (enlarged).
• A 3×4 size photo, light blue background.
• Documents are not received physically unless required during the admission process.

4. Print the registration payment form at the end of online registration or make payment through PSE.

*The Foundation reserves the right to admit and assign study schedules to students.