The Humanistic Colleges are inspired by the principles, aims, values and aspirations of the Universidad Nacional.
A group of academics from the UNA drew up the proposal for Basic and Regulatory Standards for the Educational Process of the Costa Rican Humanistic Colleges, which was supported by the Ministry of Public Education, by means of decree 26436-MEP: “The Costa Rican Humanistic Colleges (CHC) are by definition pre-university institutions that offer their students the opportunity to develop and acquire skills, abilities, knowledge and professional orientation. These colleges will stimulate the analytical, critical, creative and relational capacity of human beings with their cultural and natural reality”.
In 1998, it began its work with the first group of tenth-year students on the Omar Dengo Campus of the Universidad Nacional in the province of Heredia. These schools were created in response to the demand for educational options that emphasize reflection and the formation of fundamental human values, and in response to the profound ethical challenges of the present. In this way, it is conceived as a pedagogical modality that places the human being, his or her thought, history, legacy and harmonious relationship with the natural world, at the center of all knowledge endeavors.
This option is aimed at students with a vocation for literature, philosophy, history, art, critical thinking, culture and the exact sciences in a comprehensive way, with the purpose of developing the sensitivity proper to humanism.
Photograph: Students from the Humanistic College- Heredia 2023, at the 50th anniversary celebration UNA
The first Humanistic School was founded in 1998, on the Omar Dengo Campus, Heredia; in 2004, on the Coto Campus of the Brunca Regional Headquarters and, in 2017, on the Nicoya Campus of the Chorotega Regional Headquarters, Huetar Norte and Caribe-Sarapiquí Regional Section."
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