St Louis High School

The Salesian University (UPS) informs the Ecuadorian society Career Management for Sustainable Local Development, which aims to contribute to the formation of local development professionals from a humanistic perspective oriented to the construction of a plural society and equitable. It also contributes to research in the field of local development from equity and alternative parameters which contribute to better theoretical and methodological elements for local development.

The race is designed with five main themes: development, political and socio-cultural, environmental, political governance, economic, financial, participatory and conventional methodologies. In order to make a critique of the hegemonic vision of the development to build new visions and practices from local development.

The mode of study is semi-face meetings with three of three days each) in total students must be present nine days in the semester, other studies do remotely. The students are from different regions and different ethnic groups, so the race is also intercultural.

The impacts of the race is the inclusion of students in local development processes and participation with local government as members (deputies, prefects, mayors, councilors, chairmen of rural parish councils). Active participation in social processes (case mining, food sovereignty) and other management and development issues.

In order to start in September 2011 the new semester, the Career Management is in registration and enrollment period.