Teaching and learning by competences in the law career at Universidad Católica de Salta

Abstract

This work reflects the result of the first stage of the research project “Teaching and learning by competencies in the Law career of the Catholic University of Salta (UCASAL)”. The general objective of the research is to investigate whether the competencies defined by the UCA-SAL`s educational model are reflected explicitly and/or implicitly in the degree programs in face-to-face and distance modalities. To do this, all the programs of the different subjects in both modalities were analyzed through documentary observation by category.A quantitative analysis of the data was carried out which showed that there is little explicit reference to the term competencies from a pedagogical per-spective and a disparate presence of the generic competencies established by the University both between the subjects and between the years of com-pletion of the degree. Implicitly, a greater number of these competencies have been identified, although a great dispersion is observed in terms of their typology and their recurrence. The differences in the in-person and distance modalities are not significant and, in general, the same pattern can be observed, however, there are important variations in their devel-opment by year and by program elements.