Higher College of Antioquia (Colegio Mayor de Antioquia)
PLANNING AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Medellín, Colombia
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The program frames planning as a social and political practice beyond technical tasks, requiring diverse stakeholders to join discussion and reach agreement on collective interests. It focuses on designing plans, programs, and projects as operational planning levels and promotes an inclusive, democratic approach that defends rights and opportunities. It sees development as heterogeneous, multidimensional, and complex, where people generate proposals for social transformation and dignified lives through participatory planning, governance, public policy, community development, urban planning, project design, and program implementation.
Career Outcomes: public-sector planner, municipal planner, NGO officer, policy analyst, development consultant, project manager, research, teaching, urban planner
Planning constitutes a process, a social and political practice, that transcends the merely technical, since it demands the participation of the different actors in scenarios of discussion and agreement on matters of collective interest, referring to proposals for social development, which take shape in the Design of Plans, Programs, and Projects, as operational levels of planning. This implies a commitment to the construction of an inclusive, democratic society that guarantees the rights and opportunities of citizens.
From this perspective, development is understood as a heterogeneous and complex multidimensional process, crossed by various variables, through which men and women generate proposals for the transformation and creation of society from the recognition of the right to a dignified life, committed to the construction of desirable and possible futures.
