General Catalog 2024-2025

ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN INTEGRAL BEAUTY

Program description:

The program contains a curriculum that tempers emerging knowledge, skills and practices in the area of beauty in accordance with the requirements established by the Board of Examiners of Beauty Specialists. The program prepares the student who aspires to obtain the license that allows him to practice the profession of Beauty Specialists in Puerto Rico. This associate degree aims to train professionals with knowledge, skills and attitudes that allow them to make responsible contributions to the economic development of the country and the beauty industry.

Program goals:

  1. Offer society a professional capable of interacting efficiently and effectively with other professionals in a new dimension of leadership and innovation to resolve situations that arise from the specific exercise of their profession.

  2. Promote interaction with scientific, technological and management support that turns the graduate into an effective professional when serving clients.

  3. Develop professionals with mastery in the field of beauty that promotes comprehensive, updated training with high socio-humanistic meaning in the four main disciplines of beauty.

The Barranquitas Campus is authorized to offer the Associate of Arts in Integral Beauty.

Graduate profile competencies:

Knowledge

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

  1. entrepreneurship and innovation as the basis for the development of a business in the beauty area.

  2. elements in the areas of skin care, cosmetology, barbering, aesthetics, makeup, nail care, hair coloring, cutting, and styling.

  3. the environment to which the beauty professional belongs and its relevance for their performance and development.

  4. the ethical, legal and health aspects that apply to the beauty professional.

  5. the four (4) disciplines of beauty.

Abilities

  1. Apply skills in areas related to the creation or administration of a business in the beauty area.

  2. Apply basic and advanced hair cutting, styling and color techniques for women and men.

  3. Integrate facial and body procedures into skin treatment or care.

  4. Apply nail care, aesthetic and creative procedures for both women and men.

  5. Use new technologies in beauty to maximize the offering of services to clients.

Attitudes

  1. Assess the client's preferences to offer appropriate consulting.

  2. Demonstrate an ethical, legal, and socially responsible attitude in the processes of creating and managing a business in the beauty area.

Program retention requirements

To remain in the Program, the student must pass all concentration courses with a minimum grade of C; except for the courses BELI 2910: Supervised Professional Practice and BELI 2970: Integrative Seminar in Beauty Sciences, which must be passed with a minimum grade of B.

Graduation requirements

Pass the concentration courses with a minimum grade of C; except for the courses BELI 2910 Supervised Professional Practice and BELI 2970 Integrative Seminar in Beauty Sciences, which must be passed with a minimum grade of B.


Requirements for Associate of Arts in Integral Beauty

General Education - 24 credits

GESP Spanish - Select 6 credits from the GESP category

6

GEEN English - Select 6 credits from the GEEN category

6

GEP-GEMA 1000Quantitative Reasoning

3

GEP-GECF 1010Introduction to the Christian Faith

3

GEP-GEIC 1010Information and Computing Technologies

3

GEP-GEEC 2000Entrepreneurial Culture

3

Core courses - 41 credits

BELI 1000INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRAL BEAUTY

2

BELI 1010HAIR TRICOLOGY

2

BELI 1101CUTTING, SHAVING AND HAIRSTYLING I

3

BELI 1102CUT AND HAIRSTYLING II

3

BELI 1103CUT AND HAIRSTYLING III

3

BELI 2100SKIN, HANDS AND FOOT CARE

3

BELI 2110DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF BEAUTY SALONS

3

BELI 2200AESTHETICS, MAKEUP AND NAIL TECHNOLOGY I

3

BELI 2201AESTHETICS, MAKEUP AND NAIL TECHNOLOGY II

3

BELI 2202AESTHETICS, MASSAGE AND BODY MAKEUP III

3

BELI 2300CHEMICAL PROCEDURES I

3

BELI 2301CHEMICAL PROCEDURES II

3

BELI 2910SUPERVISED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

4

BELI 2970INTEGRATIVE SEMINAR IN BEAUTY SCIENCES

3