DERE 1300 Constitution and Democracy
(3 credits)
This course constitutes a general University policy that corresponds to the constitutional mandate for teaching the Constitution (Article 41), whose core mission is to strengthen the critical knowledge and ability to take action within students, in keeping with the values that they must possess as citizens for exercising their rights and duties responsibly. At the end of the course, students are expected to acquire the knowledge and reflection ability necessary, which will allow them to qualify their intervention as citizens, by giving them the tools that enable them to understand: the relationship between state, lawfulness, and society; the techniques, purposes and opportunities to claim individual and collective rights responsibly; the techniques, limits and opportunities of citizen participation in politics; and the minimum legal and political frameworks typical of responsible practice of a profession.