Faculty of Humanities
Guajara Campus
Infrastructure and services
Geography and History Section
The Department of Geography and History is part of the Guajara campus, inaugurated by the University of La Laguna (ULL) in the 1992-93 academic year. The layout of the buildings, roads, and gardens gives the entire complex an excellent environmental quality. Its infrastructure is organized around facilities shared by four departments. The main lecture hall and its subsequent extension (2003-04) are shared, as are the General and Humanities Libraries for the Faculties of Philology, Psychology, Geography and History, and Philosophy.
The general offices and those corresponding to the two departments that comprise it are located in the departmental building of the Geography and History Section: Geography and History and Art and Philosophy.
All campus buildings have elevators and ramps to eliminate architectural barriers, as well as fire safety measures (alarms, fire extinguishers, etc.).
Teaching infrastructure
Teaching is carried out in two types of facilities: the classrooms available in the lecture hall building and the laboratories and seminar rooms of the departments, located in the departmental building.
Classrooms
In the main lecture hall building on the Guajara Campus and in the adjacent lecture hall building, classrooms are assigned among the Departments of Geography and History, Psychology, and Philology. The Department of Geography and History has a total of 11 classrooms, which are distributed between morning and afternoon sessions for the Bachelor's degrees in Geography and Spatial Planning, History, and Art History.
Regarding the provision of teaching equipment, it can be stated that the classrooms are conveniently equipped with the usual means for teaching (overhead projector, slide projector and projection screen) and there is a small park of additional equipment in the general classroom building (video projectors, televisions and video, DVD player, projector, computer).
| Classrooms 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.10 2.6 2.9 | |||||
| Capacity 57 57 75 75 139 108 76 |
| Conventional classrooms (Annexed classroom building) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Classrooms | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| Ability | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Specialized classroom |
|---|
In the General classroom building, classroom 1.3 is specialized in Geographic Information Technologies and has a capacity for 30 students.
Laboratories and other facilities for teaching
The Departments have classrooms/seminar rooms that are also used for teaching, and are equipped with the usual equipment (slide projector and projection screen, projector, PC…)
In the Departmental building, the main facilities for the teaching-learning process are:
Computer lab of the Center (first floor of the departmental building): Classrooms assisted by scholarship recipients provided by the Vice-Rectorate of Information Technologies and University Services.
In the different Departments, in addition to third cycle classrooms, different facilities (classrooms and laboratories) are enabled according to the specificity of the teaching and research for which they are responsible.
He Department of Geography and History It features:
He Department of Art History, It has facilities of varying capacities, including:
Music room, music booths, art techniques room, photography lab, multimedia room, audiovisual room
Library and Newspaper Archive
The ULL library is organized by center collections, so that the bibliographic acquisitions made by the departments involved in the degrees of the Section are cataloged and installed in the Geography and History collection, which occupies the third floor of the General and Humanities Library.
The General and Humanities Library organizes its bibliographic collection for direct access, so the arrangement of the collection on the shelves follows the Universal Decimal Classification system, although the oldest part of the collection (those over 15 years old) remains largely classified and stored according to the current numbering sequence assigned to them in the departmental libraries (before the centralization of collections into a single collection). Along with the Geography and History collection, faculty frequently use the serial collections of scholarly journals in the Humanities Periodicals Room located on the second floor. Both faculty and students are the main users of the Canary Islands Collection, located on the first floor, which centralizes all publications (monographs, serials, and periodicals produced in or about the Canary Islands). The Canary Islands Collection is the most important bibliographic collection in the world on this subject and is highly valued by our Center. It should also be noted that the Library has an important old collection with more than 12,623 volumes (manuscripts, incunabula, publications prior to 1801, rare books, etc.).
Regarding the provision of study rooms, there is a study room with 250 seats.
In addition to the Library's study spaces, the Guajara campus also houses the ULL-CajaCanarias Student Services Building, which serves as a 24-hour open study room.
The library provides the following services:
Computer Resources
Regarding IT equipment, it should be noted that the University of La Laguna (ULL) has a corporate communications network (voice and data) managed by the Center for Communications and Information Technologies. This network provides internal communication services to all its campuses (teaching, administration, research, and services). The corporate network offers email, web, and licensed software distribution services to all ULL faculty and administrative and service staff, supports the management systems and the University Library's online catalog query system, and provides internet access to all workstations in our computer labs. The Faculty of Humanities also has a Wi-Fi network.
The computer resources, which are regularly updated, are sufficient and adequate to ensure the proper functioning of the teaching.
As already indicated, most classrooms have digital projection and a computer, as well as an internet connection.
The Section also has computer labs, as well as licenses for the software programs that the University has contracted for office automation and licenses for design, calculation, simulation, optimization, etc. programs. The computer lab's equipment is considered sufficient for its current use.
Academic Staff Space
The professors involved in the Section's training programs have offices in their respective departments, the vast majority of which are single rooms. The departments also have meeting rooms suitable for faculty meetings. In addition, the Section has a meeting room (Elías Serra Ráfols Room) equipped with projection, video, and videoconferencing systems.
The following spaces will be requested by authorized PDI staff, via email consergh@ull.es using this form/application. Before making your request, please check classroom availability according to the booking calendar.
The former Faculty of Geography and History, within its Internal Quality Assurance System, has a procedure, PR-15, "Service Management." This procedure defines how the former Faculty of Geography and History ensures the proper management of the services it provides to the university community, both those managed internally ("internal") and those contracted to external companies ("external"), to adapt to the needs and expectations of its stakeholders. Likewise, there is a procedure, PR-09, "Management of Deviations, Incidents, Complaints, and Suggestions," which defines the former Faculty's procedures for handling and managing deviations, incidents, complaints, and suggestions submitted by any member of the stakeholders. This ensures their effective review and response, and that the necessary measures are taken to satisfactorily resolve any issues that may arise.
The service managers are responsible for defining and planning the services' activities. The Quality Manager is responsible for disseminating information about the services' activities and objectives.
External Services
Internal Services
| Secretariat | |
|---|---|
| Responsible | Dácil Pérez Hernández (Administrator) |
| Goals | – Reception and processing of all documents and written submissions presented by interested parties – Personalized attention regarding any query about the administrative processes of the University and especially those specific to this Faculty – Management of personal academic records – Issuance of all types of certificates related to the student's academic record – Registration – Processing of files for the issuance of the corresponding degrees, etc. |
| Goal | |
| Responsible | María Pilar Marrero Carracedo (Caretaker) |
| Goals | – Information on the location of different departments within the building – Building access control – Supervision of infrastructure maintenance – Mail management – Replenish the consumable materials needed for teaching – Closing and opening of classroom doors and other facilities |
| Responsible | Jaime Salvador Díaz Pacheco |
| Goals | To offer via the Internet all the information about the Training Programs taught by the Section as well as all the relevant information about it for the different interest groups. |
| Photocopier | |
| Responsible | María Pilar Marrero Carracedo (Caretaker) |
| Goals | To offer a photocopying service to the teaching and research staff and administrative and service staff of the Section |