The Comprehensive Content Seminar, a Pedagogical Experience for Education in Agronomical Engineering

Abstract

In preparation for the introduction of Curriculum E in all the degrees, the Department of Marxism-Leninism has conceived the Comprehensive Content Seminar, a type of lesson whose main purpose is to integrate the contents (knowledge and skills) of subjects Socio-Political Theory and Social Problems of Science and Technology, within the Marxism-Leninism discipline. These will contribute to second-year student training in the Agronomical Engineering Degree, as a way to improve management of farming system processes within the update of the Cuban social and economic model, according to the requirements of the Model of the Professionals. This teaching activity comprises various tasks based on inter and intra-disciplinary relations and the theory-practice dependence, from which student motivation levels were raised. Further improvements included consolidation, integration, and generalization of contents; the acquisition of scientific-technical information use skills, computer skills, and written and verbal communication, as well as proper interpretation of the association Science-Technology-Society-Politics, as part of the scope of an agronomical engineer.

Keywords

• Science
• Technology
• Politics
• Society
• Integration