How to Achieve Professional Skills in Higher Education?

During the last decade, higher education has tried to focus education on the achievement of professional skills. It is interesting to see how the learning strategies implemented may facilitate or make more difficult the achievement of competencies. By dealing with the challenge of a competency-based education approach, higher education points out the need of knowing how to build such competencies, i.e. how to design a learning strategy. Not much importance has been given to this issue, probably because the competencies can be confused with abilities, skills and attitudes and, therefore, the model can be associated to in- or out-of-classroom activities without a strategy to articulate the knowledge acquired with the cultural, social and economic contexts of the community and labor spheres, i.e., as a whole (Tobón, 2005). This paper analyzes the epistemological development of the competency-based approach in higher education, focusing on the implementation of professional competencies in the Sociology degree “Licenciatura en Sociología”, in two campuses of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California: Ensenada and Mexicali. This paper describes how competencies are built and explores different theoretical trends, their conceptualization and formation, based on in-depth interviews applied to students and teachers. It provides a mixed study to understand, based on the student’s point of view, the achievements of this study program in terms of professional competencies.

PROCESO DE URBANIZACIÓN EN EL CORREDOR ECONÓMICO ENSENADA MEXICALI, 1950-2005

El objetivo del trabajo es revelar el proceso de urbanización entre 1950 y 2010 en el Corredor Económico Ensenada Mexicali, territorio ubicado al noroeste de México y norte de la Península de Baja California, en su mayoría fronterizo con Estados Unidos, en el cual se evidencian características singulares, ya sea por la naturaleza binacional de la mayor parte de su espacio, la conformación de áreas de influencia que trascienden los límites estatales y el territorio nacional, a la formación de dos Zonas Metropolitanas: Tijuana y Mexicali, además de su inserción en el contexto global. El abordaje inicia con el desarrollo histórico de las actualmente consideradas localidades urbanas haciendo énfasis en la migración proveniente de otras entidades del país. Continua con la obtención del grado de urbanización, la tasa de urbanización y el índice de urbanización de la población económicamente activa de las mismas localidades. Finaliza con el análisis de la conformación de dos zonas metropolitanas de importancia regional. En resumen, se pretende referenciar que el proceso de urbanización es un fenómeno tanto socioeconómico como poblacional-espacial dando lugar a un vínculo entre el desarrollo económico industrial y el proceso de urbanización.

Los gringos : or, an inside view of Mexico and California, with wanderings in Peru, chili, and Polynesia

UANL

The California current predator diet database: synthesis of common forage species

Characterization of the diets of upper-trophic predators is a key ingredient in management including the development of ecosystem-based fishery management plans, conservation efforts for top predators, and ecological and economic modeling of predator prey interactions. The California Current Predator Diet Database (CCPDD) synthesizes data from published records of predator food habits over the past century. The database includes diet information for 100+ upper-trophic level predator species, based on over 200 published citations from the California Current region of the Pacific Ocean, ranging from Baja, Mexico to Vancouver Island, Canada. We include diet data for all predators that consume forage species: seabirds, cetaceans, pinnipeds, bony and cartilaginous fishes, and a predatory invertebrate; data represent seven discrete geographic regions within the CCS (Canada, WA, OR, CA-n, CA-c, CA-s, Mexico). The database is organized around predator-prey links that represent an occurrence of a predator eating a prey or group of prey items. Here we present synthesized data for the occurrence of 32 forage species (see Table 2 in the affiliated paper) in the diet of pelagic predators (currently submitted to Ecological Informatics). Future versions of the shared-data will include diet information for all prey items consumed, not just the forage species of interest.

Inventory of the water resources of the Colorado River drainage area : embracing the state of Arizona and portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico : an abstract of a report to the water resources section /

"June, 1935."

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and republican : a historical, geographical, political, statistical and social account of that country from the period of the invasion by the Spaniards to the present time : with a view of the ancient Aztec empire and civilization, a historical sketch of the late war, and notices of New Mexico and California /

Mode of access: Internet.

The boy anglers; their adventures in the Gulf of Mexico, California, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and the lakes and streams of Canada,

Mode of access: Internet.

Reports upon the botanical collections made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, during the years, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1875.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Mexican war and its heroes : being a complete history of the Mexican war, embracing all the operations under Generals Taylor and Scott, with a biography of the officers ; also, an account of the conquests of California and New Mexico, under Gen. Kearney, Cols. Doniphan and Fremont ; together with numerous anecdotes of the war, and presonal adventures of the officers.

A reprint of two separate works: General Taylor and his staff, Philadelphia, Grigg, Elliot & co., 1848, and General Scott and his staff. Philadelphia, Grigg, Elliot & co., 1848.

Man︢analand; advertising with camera and rifle through California in Mexico,

Mode of access: Internet.

New guide to the Pacific coast, Santa Fé route : California, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois.

Mode of access: Internet.

California under Spain and Mexico, 1535-1847; a contribution toward the history of the Pacific coast of the United States, based on original sources (chiefly manuscript) in the Spanish and Mexican archives and other repositories,

1 folded table, 1 folded map in pockets.

Historical collections of the great West: containing narratives of the most important and interesting events in western history -remarkable individual adventures - sketches of frontier life - descriptions of natural curiosities: to which is appended historical and descriptive sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington, Nebraska, Kansas, etc., etc.

v. 2 has caption title only.

Audubon's western journal, 1849-1850 : being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas : and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California /

Kurutz, G.F. California gold rush,

Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba.

Mode of access: Internet.