Emotional Intelligence within the Content of a Curricular Subject, Applied Case in the Higher Technical University Program in Graphic Production at the Universidad Iberoamericana

Abstract

This article presents the results of an emotional intelligence intervention study focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating the emotional project within the Higher University Technical Program in Graphic Production. The project aimed at promoting the strengthening of prevention, attention, and follow-up of socio-emotional problems in the second-term group of a technical career, by means of the socio-emotional workshop included in the subject Visual Communication, and to observe how it influenced positively the students’ learning and self-perception. Given the need to provide support to the members of the second-semester visual communication group, this socio-emotional project was created for students who began their studies during the pandemic and had never attended in person. This situation placed them in a high degree of possible desertion, so the workshop was designed and implemented with successful results, which translate into better self-knowledge, emotion management, and empathy; as well as zero desertion at the end of the semester.