To train competent professionals in the management and development of archival information units and services; with leadership and competence, based on ethics and quality of service, social responsibility and oriented to sustainable development to offer expert consulting services and document management in the national and international spheres.

The applicant must have an interest in the history and documentary heritage of the nation, oral and written expression skills, and good reading comprehension and information analysis skills. Service attitude and high ethical values, reliability, secrecy, and ability to work collaboratively and under pressure.

KNOWLEDGE

• Logical thinking skills to establish a relationship of subordination and correspondence between concepts.
• Skills to organize their school, work, and personal activities.
• Medium and long term planning of their school activities.
• Reflective reading, understanding the main ideas of a text, reordering its argumentative sequence, and drawing their conclusions.
• Written expression: coherence in the development of writing; syntax and spelling.
• Oral expression: intention and clear arguments in oral intervention.
• Time organization: organization of work, academic, recreational, and personal activities to adequately manage time.

KNOWING HOW TO BE AND LIVE TOGETHER

• Active listening: attention, understanding, and return of what the interlocutor communicates.
• Teamwork: distribution of tasks, responsibility, and co-responsibility in their execution.
• Participation and proactivity: proposal, recovery, and incorporation of diverse opinions.
• Collaboration: interaction and support to the members of the group or team.
• Self-criticism: assertive reception of adverse opinions and balanced judgment on one's performance and attitudes.

Graduates of the bachelor's degree in Archival Science are competent to:

• Manage the physical and human resources for the organization, preservation and dissemination of archives in their different moments of evolution based on the regulations, current legislation, and code of ethics of the profession.
• Design and apply appropriate strategies to the treatment of documents and documentary collections, with an integrated and interdisciplinary vision, to maintain the control and organization, both physical and content of documents of lasting value.
• Generates retrieval tools and provides consultation and guidance services to researchers and users of archives from the application of ICT appropriate to the organization and service. for the retrieval, location and publication of archival information.
• Selects documents based on their documentary, legal, historical, and cultural value, to define the organization according to the context in which they were created, type of institution, the purpose of their use, and their relationship with other sources.
• Generates conservation and organization policies, according to the theoretical principles, norms, legal provisions, rules, standards, and methodologies of archival science, to ensure the preservation of document collections in various formats.
• Intervenes professionally in the organization of archives in public, private or social sector institutions.
• Reflects and systematizes his experience to increase the knowledge base of the profession.
• Develops the profession with a high sense of ethics and oriented to the service and development of a sustainable society.

The requirements to become a student at the Institute are:

1. To comply with the academic background and other requirements indicated in the respective call for applications.
2. To take the admission exam for the higher level.
3. To be selected for admission.

Works in public and private institutions where it is mandatory and essential to have an efficient archival organization, such as government agencies, educational, religious, and business institutions, museums, and hospitals, among others. Develops archival organization systems by the objectives, structure, resources, and needs of the entities with which he collaborates.

Check the list of subjects, credits and total hours of the program in:

• ENBA