Elective Course Inmigración Catalana to Santiago de Cuba: su contributing to the Formación Integral del Futuro Evado Universitario

Abstract

The incorporation of elective courses in the curriculum of Cuban university careers provided extensive possibilities for the development of educational work. Within this scenario, work with local history becomes a vital importance, by taxing the formation of students' historical thinking, with all the burden of values that it implies. In this sense, the study of Catalan immigration to Santiago de Cuba is essential, whose impact on socioeconomic, cultural and political life is maintained to this day. Hence, it is intended to implement an elective course on the Catalan presence in the Santiago town as a contribution to the preservation of cultural identity in the students of the University of the East. The research methods used were the analytical-synthetic and the inductive-deductive, which led to the systematization of the theoretical referents that support the present inquiry, with a dialectical-materialistic methodological approach.