Center for Extension, Executive Development and Organizational Consulting
CENDECO
Center for Extension, Executive Development and Organizational Consulting
CENDECO
The Center for Extension, Executive Development and Organizational Consulting (CENDECO) of the Metropolitan University, responds to the necessity of strengthening the institution’s link with civil society, the productive sector, and public and private organizations, by attending to their needs for professional training and skills development. They aim to anticipate and respond to changes in the environment, achieve superior performance and increase their market value.
The catalog includes diploma programs and courses in various management topics, as well as in the areas of Law and Engineering. These programs have the approval of the Academic Vice Rector of Unimet. CENDECO operates with its own resources through alliances with professionals and renowned institutions, which enrich its portfolio of products and services.
CENDECO offers the opportunity to acquire new management competencies and skills in a virtual environment —via Internet— and in different areas of specialization. This allows breaking with schedule and location barriers that intervene in day-to-day life, thus adapting to the pace of today’s professional. The center also offers, as an option, the service of in-company training.
Courses and Diploma programs
Route to digital transformation
Route to digital transformation
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Microsoft Project for project management
Microsoft Project for project management
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Problem analysis and decision making
Problem analysis and decision making
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Digital marketing
Digital marketing
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
BIM modeling and basic building documentation
BIM modeling and basic building documentation
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Cryptocurrency: transactions and investments
Cryptocurrency: transactions and investments
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Leadership and teamwork
Leadership and teamwork
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Finance for non-financial people
Finance for non-financial people
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Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in World Literature
Diploma in World Literature
Overview
The Diploma in World Literature is a unique study that allows a sensitive approach to the reading of the various literatures of both the western and eastern world. It offers the correlation as comparative literature and aims to appreciate the different literary manifestations that reveal ways of being and living, the latter in relation to the multiculturalism that defines current world dynamics. Such is the focus of the program: crossing boundaries and addressing human breadth. For this reason, it includes courses on Oriental, Hebrew, German, French, English, North American, Spanish and Latin American literature.
Who is the program for?
General public.
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format with 180 academic hours distributed in three trimesters.
I TRIMESTER
- French literature / Prof. José Sánchez Lecuna
- North American literature / Prof. Ana María Velázquez
- German literature / Prof. Geraldine Gutiérrez-Wienken
II TRIMESTER
- Literature and classical mythology
- Oriental literature
- Hebrew literature
III TRIMESTER
- Hispanic American literature
- English literature
- Spanish literature
Date
From May 25 to July 27, 2021
Format
Online: synchronous / asynchronous
Synchronous sessions: Tuesday – 8:00am to 1:00pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in Studies on Venezuelanness
Diploma in Studies on Venezuelanness
Overview
What does it mean to be Venezuelan? What are their roots? What constitutes and defines their framework of reference? What motivates and identifies them? What are the country’s opportunities to emerge from the crisis in which we find ourselves? Where are we going? These questions acquire relevance in times of political turbulence and economic uncertainty. In these circumstances, the analysis and evaluation of our fundamental characteristics as a nation is essential to understand the past and present, and to plan for the future.
Who is the program for?
People interested in updating and expanding their knowledge on fundamental aspects of our civic legacy and the alternatives we have in order to reach the country’s potential, in a context of academic excellence and permanent interaction.
Duration
3 trimesters.
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format with 180 academic hours distributed in three trimesters.
I TRIMESTER
- Oil and Venezuelan economy / Prof. Rafael Arráiz Lucca
- History of Venezuela / Prof. David Ruíz Chataing
- Appreciation of Venezuelan traditional music and gastronomy / Prof. Bartolomé Díaz Sahagún / Prof. Jeanin Santos
II TRIMESTER
- Venezuelan literature
- Political institutions of Venezuela
- Identity of the Venezuelan
III TRIMESTER
- Venezuela in the international context
- Venezuelan plastic arts
- Social reality in Venezuela
Date
From April 29 to July 8, 2021
Format
Online: synchronous / asynchronous
Synchronous sessions: Thursday – 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in Wine Culture and Spirits
Diploma in Wine Culture and Spirits
Overview
This is the first program in Venezuela on “Wine culture and distillates”, so if you are interested in wine, you will want to earn this Diploma.
Who is the program for?
- Lovers of good life and good food
- Professionals from different university disciplines who wish to expand their culture and knowledge.
- Public relations and marketing specialists, as well as travel and tourism agents.
- Managers who need to sell ideas, projects and businesses, by learning how to use lunches and gatherings as business tools.
- Chefs, food and beverage managers from the hotel industry, people involved in the restaurant business.
- Professionals and lovers of gastronomy.
- Organizers of seminars, events, product launches and sales force motivation.
- Theoretical and practical classes, with introduction and mastery of the different facets of the art of tasting (sample and tasting in all classes).
- Multimedia conferences with experts abroad.
Duration
120 academic hours
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format, with a total of 120 academic hours distributed in two phases.
Courses
- Culture and terroir
- Oenology and tasting
- Production and tasting of spirits
- Culture and origin of spirits
Date
From June 16 to September 29, 2021
Format
Online: synchronous / asynchronous
Synchronous sessions: Monday and Wednesday – 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Thais Castro, assistance.
Diploma in Venezuelan Visual Arts
Diploma in Venezuelan Visual Arts
Overview
The Diploma in Venezuelan Visual Arts promotes the comprehension of our history through national art, covering from indigenous expressions and the colonial period up to our days.
Who is the program for?
General public
Duration
3 trimesters
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format, with a total of 180 academic hours distributed in three trimesters.
If you have any questions, please contact the program’s academic coordinator: mberrizbeitia@unimet.edu.ve
I TRIMESTER
- Indigenous art
- Colonial art
- 19th-century art and the Circle of Fine Arts
II TRIMESTER
- From the School of Caracas to the Free Art Workshop
- Abstractionism
- The Art Critic in Venezuela
III TRIMESTER
- The architecture of the city
- Neo-figurative art and other figurative works
- From conceptual art, and its consequences, to the latest contemporaneity
Date
From May 6 to July 15, 2021
Format
Online: synchronous / asynchronous
Synchronous sessions: Thursday – 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invocies only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in European Studies
Diploma in European Studies
Overview
The Diploma in European Studies explores aspects of Europe’s politics, history, literature, philosophy and art, to delve into the continent’s current reality and its influence on the rest of the world.
Duration
2 trimesters
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format with a total of 120 academic hours distributed in two trimesters.
If you have any questions, please contact the program’s academic coordinator: mberrizbeitia@unimet.edu.ve
I TRIMESTER
- On literature: The transformations of humanism (Petrarch, Montaigne and Cervantes)
- On political ideas: European modernity and contemporaneity
- On poetry: Poetic arts and poetics of art
II TRIMESTER
- On philosophy: Greco-Roman, Christian and humanist
- On art: Italian Renaissance, Spanish Golden Age, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and French Naturalism
- On history: European destruction, rebirth and crisis
Date
From October 6 to December 8, 2020
Schedule
Tuesday – 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in History of Western Art
Diploma in History of Western Art
Overview
The Diploma in History of Western Art chronologically studies the evolution of art, from classical antiquity (ancient Greece and Rome) to the latest contemporaneity, in order to reflect on man and his history.
Who is the program for?
General public
Duration
3 trimesters
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format, with a total of 180 academic hours distributed in three trimesters.
If you have any questions, please contact the program’s academic coordinator: mberrizbeitia@unimet.edu.ve
I TRIMESTER
- Classical art
- Medieval art
- Renaissance and Baroque art
II TRIMESTER
- Abstractionism / Prof. Susana Benko
- From conceptual art, and its consequences, to the latest contemporaneity / Prof. María Luz Cárdenas
- Theory of art / Prof. Rafael Castillo Zapata
III TRIMESTER
- Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Academic art, Naturalism and Symbolism
- Symbolism and Modernism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- The vanguards: Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism
Date
From October 12 to December 14, 2020
Schedule
Tuesday – 12:30 pm to 6:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
Diploma in Historical Process of Venezuela
Diploma in Historical Process of Venezuela
Overview
Did European explorers stumble upon a lost paradise in the New World? Was it indigenous resistance or the enigmatic encounter of two worlds? When did the territory of what would be the future Venezuela begin to take shape? Was the independence a civil feat? Are the military the only ones called to lead the destiny of the country? Were the cacao, coffee and oil, the kings of the Venezuelan economy? Did the Venezuelan 20th century really begin after the death of General Juan Vicente Gómez in 1935? When did Venezuelan women fully achieve all their political rights? Is Democracy possible in Venezuela? You will elucidate the answer to these and other questions, along the teaching staff that Unimet has appointed for this renewed edition of the program, in order to better understand our past.
Who is the program for?
General public
Duration
3 trimesters
Curriculum
The program is designed in an online format, with a total of 180 academic hours distributed in three trimesters.
I TRIMESTER
- Geohistory of the Venezuelan nation
- Colonial society
- Crisis of the colonial order
II TRIMESTER
- Emergence of the Republic
- State formation in the 19th Century (1830-1899)
- Modernization and oil industry
III TRIMESTER
- State consolidation (20th Century)
- Political parties and socio-economic organizations
- Democratic order and its challenges
Date
From May 21 to July 23, 2021
Format
Online: synchronous / asynchronous
Synchronous sessions: Friday – 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Application process
- Fill in the following FORM
- Send (digitized)
- Curriculum vitae
- Copy of ID card
- Copy of the company’s RIF (Tax ID Number): For legal invoices only
Contact
Cendeco
Astrid Lander, University Extension Coordinator
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