Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Functions

Dean´s Functions

The Dean is the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters' representative vis-a-vis all university bodies.
The Dean is responsible for the following functions:

• Presiding over and convening the Faculty Board and setting the agenda for its sessions.
• Executing and enforcing the agreements adopted by the Faculty Board.
• Communicating to the members of the Board all the agreements and information of interest to them.
• Directing and coordinating the activities of the Centre in all the areas under his purview.
• Executing budgetary forecasts within the scope of his purview.
• Proposing to the Rector the appointment of the Vice-deans, Deputy Directors and the Secretary of the Centre.
• Authorizing, within the scope of his purview, all the acts to be held at the Centre.
• Any others attributed to him by these Statutes or current provisions, informing, in any case, the Faculty Board.

Functions of the Vice-Dean of Academic Planning and Social Outrearch

• Coordinating the signing of internship agreements, including external academic internships, and providing vocational guidance for students.
• Coordinating the Centre's Cultural Volunteer service, sending the offers for positions from the interested companies and institutions to the Faculty's students.
• Management of matters related to audiovisual media and technical infrastructure.
• The Centre's Environmental Plan.
• The Centre's Protection and Prevention Plan.
• Convening and presiding over the Centre's social outreach programs: PICES (IES program of Córdoba and the province) and the Feliciano Delgado Prize for good use of the language.
• Coordination of the Centre's Social Outreach and Communications Commission, as well as the weekly Informative Newsletters.
• Management and coordination of the information on the Centre's website.

Functions of the Vice-Dean of Academic Quality and Communications

• Convening and presiding over the Centre's Quality Commission.
• Convening and presiding over the Centre’s Library Commission.
• Convening and presiding over the TQM systems of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters' Degrees.
• The handling of Complaints, Suggestions and Congratulations. The Faculty's own mailbox.
• Drafting and presentation of the internal reports on the quality of each Degree.
• Management and monitoring of the improvement plans arising from the Centre's quality programs.
• Convening and presiding over the Academic Organization Commission.
• Advising the Faculty Board regarding the organization of pedagogical activity (size of groups, the offering of elective classes, assignment of classrooms).
• Overseeing the organization of the teaching for the Degree programs offered by the Centre (managing the activity of the Degree coordinators and teaching teams, implementation and updating of study plans, appointment of academic tutors).
• Publicizing calls for projects and promoting actions that bolster the research activity of the Centre's teaching staff, with particular attention to contract staff.

Functions of the Vice-Dean of Mobility and International Relations

• Convening and presiding over the Mobility and International Relations Commission.
• Promoting the mobility of the Faculty's students, professors, and administrative and service staff.
• Managing and coordinating the exchange programs for outgoing and incoming students (Erasmus, Non-European Mobility, SICUE, and the Faculty's Own Plan) by handling the agreements, organizing and announcing the scholarships offered, selecting the candidates, authorizing the classes to be recognized, etc.).
• Managing and coordinating internships in other countries (management of specific agreements and recognition of courses).
• Coordinating the mobility program for professors and for administrative and services staff.

Functions of the Secretary

He is the notary of the agreements of the Faculty Board and of all the administrative acts taking place at the Faculty. The functions of the Secretary (Art. 79 of the Statutes of the University of Córdoba) are:

• To attest to the agreements and resolutions of the Faculty's governance and representative bodies, as well as all those acts and events he attends in his capacity as Secretary, and that are recorded in the minutes books of the Centre's governance bodies and Registry.
• The keeping and custody of the minute books.
• The custody of the general archive of the Centre and its official seal.
• Guaranteeing the dissemination of the general agreements of the Centre's different governing bodies.
• The reception and custody of test score records.
• Collaborating with the General Secretariat of the University of Córdoba on the maintenance and updating of the university census lists.
• Any other functions assigned to him.

Degree Coordinators

Faculty Board

Commissions

- Economic Affairs, Infrastructure and Services Commission

- Library Commission

- Teaching Commission

- Institutional Relations, Social Outreach and Communications Commission

- Mobility and International Relations Commission

- Academic Organization Commission