UNINAVARRA's LAW program interrelates the curricular contents with the areas of private law, public law, and promotes interaction with other areas of knowledge, within a modern, pertinent and attractive proposal, with emphasis on practical aspects and with an offer of selection, organization, structuring, distribution and evaluation of learning, which corresponds to the reality and needs of the Central South Amazon Region.

The curricular contents and learning outcomes developed by the Law Program at UNINAVARRA are oriented to train professionals in the generation and updating of knowledge and in the acquisition of essential skills to understand, from the interaction of various disciplines, the importance of their area of knowledge, without neglecting its humanistic nature, studying the conducts that generate legal responsibility in this area and the situations that create risks that threaten the welfare of human beings, with a preventive and conciliatory approach, making available to the student the regulations, jurisprudential analysis, comparative law and doctrine.


We are a university community committed to the comprehensive training of lawyers, with social responsibility, entrepreneurial vision and international projection, based on autonomous learning, with the ability to generate and apply new knowledge for scientific, cultural, political and ethical development in the service of management and peaceful resolution of conflicts, under the following principles principles of human dignity, orality, transparency and inclusion.
UNINAVARRA's Law Program Swill be recognized as a program of high academic quality, recognized regionally and nationally for its commitment to academic processes that have a component of international interaction, research, social projection, outreach and entrepreneurship; forming legal professionals who impact and transform society through the application of legal science with ethics and social responsibility.

Applicant Profile

The applicant of the Law program at UNINAVARRA will have communicative skills to express the concepts acquired in their academic training, will have clarity in their professional choice. Solid ethical bases that are evidenced in their commitment to the community, the family and the State.

General entry profile and admission requirements

Admission to UNINAVARRA is free and voluntary by enrollment processes of applicants according to their vocation. Admission to UNINAVARRA is based on three profiles:

  • Personal profile where personality traits of the applicants are evaluated to verify affinity with the entrance profile of each program.
  • Intellectual profile where the degree of knowledge is evaluated and based on the State Aptitude and Knowledge Tests of the Colombian Institute for the Promotion of Higher Education ICFES, minimum admission scores will be established for each program.
  • Attitudinal profile determined in interview processes in which the Program Director will determine the affinity between the student and the formative requirements of the program.

 

UNINAVARRA's lawyer profile

The profile of the UNINAVARRA graduate is a conjunction of three fundamental elements for the development of the human being: personal, professional and occupational profile.

  • As a person, the UNINAVARRA graduate is an integral human being, aware of his or her life project and sensitive to the problems of society, being an actor in its transformation.
  • As a professional, he understands that everything he has learned in his training has a clear and specific utility in the development of his profession.
  • On the occupational side, they are objectively and demonstrably qualified in a series of skills recognized by the productive sector and the institution.

The graduate is critical and proactive, and proposes solutions to specific problems by applying science and technology. They are fully aware of the implications of their profession and their ethical vision is based on deontological training and classroom experience. He tries to understand social phenomena as actions that guide the destinies of his community, on which he must have a position and an opinion that can and must be heard.

Professional profile

It is based on four institutional pillars:

  • Theoretical and practical knowledge of the law.
  • His training is oriented to the area of private law.
  • His skills in legal conflict management, orality and socio-legal research.
  • Its sense of justice, equity and the founding values of the social rule of law and citizenship.

Occupational profile

The UNINAVARRA lawyer may work in the independent practice of law, as an advisor or consultant on legal issues, in private enterprise, in the public sector, in academia, as an official of the judicial branch, according to the skills and competencies developed within their academic training.

Innovation in the training of lawyers

We have an organization of innovative academic activities that are articulated to the Curriculum and that strengthen the skills and competencies of future legal professionals, some of which are highlighted:

 Moot Court (Hypothetical or Real Cases in Oral Court)Practical exercises in the Oral Court Room of the University Foundation - UNINAVARRA, where hearings and oral trials are held, which will allow students to develop oral skills, based on the solution of hypothetical or real cases. These activities are carried out with the participation of other academic programs, such as the Medical Law and Family Medicine courses. In this way, collaborative work with other disciplines of knowledge is encouraged, allowing students to acquire competencies for their professional future.
 Disciplinary and interdisciplinary legal bars in Medical Law: Its purpose is to solve difficult cases through collaborative work between students, professors and invited experts. This space allows the development of complex thinking skills, argumentation and problem solving.
 Cinema and law: It is a teaching strategy where film is used by the teacher as a multidisciplinary academic tool in order to articulate the different spheres of disciplinary knowledge in spaces of reflection and awareness.
 Book Club: Gabo, other authors and human rights:  In this academic space, the literary prose of Gabriel García Márquez and other Latin American authors is used as a pretext for the academic community to understand the relationship between literature and law. However, the main purpose of this space is that reading serves as a motive to reflect on human rights. In this way, students are encouraged to read, analyze the context and think critically.
 UNINAVARRA Simulation Clinic:  This space involves all UNINAVARRA's undergraduate academic programs, promoting interdisciplinary training.
 Entrepreneurship:  In accordance with the institutional mission and vision of UNINAVARRA, students are offered a course on entrepreneurship, which allows them to use the knowledge acquired in the construction and materialization of their life projects, resulting in their welfare. These activities are materialized with the participation of students of the law program in the Boot-Camp and the Lion Cage Reality Show organized by the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of UNINAVARRA.

Why study law at UNINAVARRA?

  1. You will have skills in legal conflict management, orality and socio-legal research.
  2. You will have a team of professors recognized for their academic training and professional experience (magistrates, judges, prosecutors, litigators).
  3. You will train in the classroom and in interdisciplinary simulation settings such as the oral and simulation clinic.
  4. You will have options for an academic exchange semester abroad, thanks to international mobility agreements (Spain, Mexico, United States, Chile, among others).
  5. You will learn to solve real problems from an interdisciplinary point of view, from the activities we carry out in the program.

Teacher profiles

Internship Agreement

Currently, there are Academic Cooperation Framework Agreements and Cooperation Agreements for academic or professional internships with the following entities:

  • Electrificadora del Huila
  • Neiva Chamber of Commerce
  • Friends Like Rice Foundation
  • Flower Mills Huila
  • Molinos Roa S.A.
  • TDH S.A.
  • Corporación Universitaria de Ciencia y Tecnología de Colombia
  • Regional Autonomous Corporation of Alto Magdalena - CAM
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