SPECIALIZATION IN COMPREHENSIVE ASSISTANCE TO EARLY CHILDHOOD

Specialization In Comprehensive Assistance to Early Childhood

What is Specialization In Comprehensive Assistance to Early Childhood?

The Maria Cano’s Specialization in Comprehensive assistance to early childhood (in agreement with FUCatólica del Norte in virtual modality) focuses on educating specialists who work in a coordinated manner, having as their main objective 0-6 year-old children’s growth. This way, we point towards educating agents with an inclusive vision who value diversity as an inherent human being’s charactheristic and with the ability to use their knowledge in different fields; performing promotion and prevention-oriented duties, designing and participating in investigative, academic and community social proposals.

The Specialization in Comprehensive assistance to early childhood in virtual modality is conceived under the premise of being a timeless-spaceless education which reduces geographical barriers and allows reaching a significant amount of people who are interested in contributing a comprehensive development of early chidhood.

In agreement:

SNIES: 107512
Title: Specialist in Comprehensive Early Childhood Care
Qualified record: Resolution 017472 of november 2, 2018
Methodology: Online
Validity: 7 años
Duration: 2 semesters
Tuition fee 2025: $7.038.856 per semester
Credits: 26

2025 Value with discount: $4.927.199 semester

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.

Graduate Program Enrollment Requirements:

Before accessing the enrollment platform, you must have the following documents ready:

  • Undergraduate Degree Certificate.

  • Identification document (enlarged to 150%).

If you experience difficulties uploading the documents, you can send the information to the Admissions Office via email at: documentosadmisiones@fumc.edu.co.

Complete the online enrollment and generate the payment receipt through PSE for $213,022 COP.

Fundación Universitaria María Cano reserves the right to admission and to assign class schedules to applicants.

Discounts:

  • Graduates of undergraduate and graduate programs from Fundación Universitaria María Cano are entitled to a 30% discount on tuition fees.

  • Early payment: 15% discount on tuition fees if paid within the period specified as early payment, as indicated in each billing statement.

  • Discounts are not cumulative.

María Isabel Loaiza Hernández
Telephone (60+4) 4025500
Whatsapp: 31170574833155444210

especializacionprimerainfancia@fumc.edu.co

Curriculum

Study plan

Content

María Cano Introduction Lecture N/A
Human development 2
Regulation Framework 2
Elective course 1
Comprehensive development in early childhood I 3
Pedagogy and didactics in early childhood settings 3
Integrating project I 1
Comprehensive development in early childhood 3
Early childhood project management 2
Comprehensive health assistance in early childhood 2
Inclusion and diversity 3
Social support community networks 2
Integrating project II 2

Note: María Cano’s undergraduate and graduate academic programs may include classes on Saturdays.