Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism

Guajara Campus

Infrastructure and services

Section of Economics and Business

Classrooms and workspaces

The Faculty of Economics and Business currently has 16 teaching classrooms and another 5 computer rooms, with the capacities indicated in the following table.

Types of Teaching Classrooms and Computer Labs
Number of teaching classrooms Classroom capacity
2 183
2 96
2 40
2 25
Number of computer labs Number of seats and computers
2 20 places each

Thanks to the implementation of the measures outlined in the "Improvement Plan," developed following the Institutional Evaluation in 2004, all classrooms in the school now have the necessary audiovisual equipment to facilitate the use of ICT in teaching: a video projector with PC connection, an internet connection point, and video and audio connections for DVD playback. The computer labs also have a total of 60 workstations. In addition to the same facilities as the other classrooms in the school, the computer labs also offer printing services for users.

In addition to classrooms, the center has several facilities for holding research seminars and workshops (Graduation Hall, with a capacity of 100 seats) or conferences and events with a larger capacity (Main Auditorium, with a capacity of 280 seats); in both cases there are projection and recording equipment and booths for interpreters and translators.

Library

The Faculty of Economics and Business building houses a modern library containing the Faculty's bibliographic collections. The library boasts excellent facilities, including:

  1. A reading room with 536 seats
  2. A newspaper library with 40 reading spaces
  3. Eight offices for group work (“carrels”)
  4. Two repositories, one for periodicals and one for monographs

The Library's collection comprises over 50,000 monographs and more than 1,000 periodical titles, of which nearly 500 are still being received. The library also offers the following services:

  1. Consult in the waiting room
  2. Foreign loan
  3. Interlibrary loan
  4. Reprographics (with two self-service photocopiers)
  5. Training activities for users, delivered by qualified library staff

Computer resources

The Faculty of Economics and Business has five computer rooms, which are staffed by computer science interns, whose main function is the maintenance of the computer equipment and the assistance to the users (students and teachers) of the same.

Each classroom has a capacity of 60 seats. The classrooms are equipped with laser printers and rear-projection devices. They are configured on a local network with two Windows XP servers providing security, backup, and storage services, and one Linux server. The classrooms are connected to the university network, providing direct internet access. Students of the Center have free access to the classrooms from October to July, during the hours when the Center's scholarship recipients are present.