THE CURRICULUM AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

According to UNESCO cited by Davalos, Figueroa and Cabrera (2018), among the missions of higher education is to train, as well as train citizens to be both responsible people, as well as committed to social, cultural and economic development. . However, this mission is only possible if the education they receive is equal, as well as constituted by study programs known as curricula, flexible, transversal and timely, and that respond to both the demands and the demands of society. It is not possible to speak of progress, much less of development having monotonous instruments as study plans, for this, quality curricula are needed, in addition to being timely and adequate, relevant in all their expression.
A resume has two ways, or to be more precise, two routes that it is essential to make them known. Along a path, the curriculum is a selection process, also of organization and transmission of a certain culture, of course in the school environment. On the other path, the curriculum is also a process, but this time, it will have as its center those programmatic, intellectual and theoretical contents, as well as procedural ones that an individual needs to learn not only for the performance of some trade, but also for life ( Osorio, 2017).
The importance of the curriculum within any educational field lies in the skills that the individual manages to acquire through the years of training, for this, it is essential that this study plan is adequate, as well as pertinent, and of course timely for the purposes that are chased Within the Latin American educational system, the curricula have suffered from terrible evils, on the one hand, due to the totalitarian systems that have been present at different times, and on the other, the lack of suitability, as well as the lack of training by university teachers. those who passively do not assume it with responsibility, rather, the attitudes that prevail are of total paralysis, generating as a whole, situations that are not almost always favorable for the teaching and learning processes of the students. Hence the importance, and why not the transcendence, of having open curricula, as well as transversal and flexible ones.