The Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), will offer the virtual course “cryptocurrencies & Blockchain”, which will be aimed at the general public, in order to provide clear knowledge about the fundamentals and applications of this technology, transactions, trading and DeFi, Decentralized Finance.
The Continuing Education Division (DEC) of the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), announced that it will launch a virtual course on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology: “Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain”, which It will start this next September 1, 2021.
The training will last 20 academic hours and will be aimed at the general public, with or without prior knowledge on this subject, and who are interested in entering the world of digital assets, what they are and how it works, the risks in manage them, the benefits they offer and how they can function as financial instruments.
In addition, The objective set by the organizers of this meeting is to provide the participants with the range of knowledge on the basic fundamentals to be able to operate with crypto assets.
Training plan
The course will be taught by the Faculty of Accounting and Administration of the UNAM, in its online mode, and It will cost 4,200 Mexican pesos ($ 200) and will be certified by the House of Studies. Likewise, the seminar is scheduled to conclude on September 24, 2021, and classes will be held in the morning from 8 to 10 am, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Those interested in studying should request their entry in the invitation emails.
The theme addressed by the university in training will be carried out by the specialist, Christian PĂ©rez Carreto, director of finance at Smart Business Corp, with operations in Mexico, LATAM Canada and Europe, and who was an accountant in the exchange Name, current member of the Technology Commission of the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants, teacher in Financial Management from the Commercial Banking School (EBC) and technology teacher at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Carreto, will address in the seminar “Criptomonedas & Blockchain”, Topics such as the operation of blockchain technology, its structure, international use cases, benefits and applications by the industry and the differences that exist between this technology and other technologies.
Likewise, the highest house of studies in Mexico, UNAM, will carry out together with the students, an analysis on the implementation of cryptocurrencies, their operation in the exchanges, platforms, risks, trading and forms of negotiation, DeFi and the most popular protocols.
Blockchain breaks into Higher Education
Currently, blockchain technology is being studied by several of the higher education institutions of Latin America, Either to give seminars, talks or incorporate as compulsory or elective subjects within their academic curriculum.
Recently, the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia, announced that it will give for the month of November of this year, a seminar on blockchain technology, “LegalTech”, which will be focused on providing blockchain solutions in the field of law. digital. For its part, the UCA, the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, He also announced that this next August 25, he will give the Master Class of the Contract Administration Course: Blockchain and Contracts.
In addition, the Andrés Bello Catholic University of Venezuela, decided to incorporate blockchain technology as a compulsory subject within the curriculum of the Accounting career as of the October 2021 school semester.
It should be noted that the Mexican study house has adopted blockchain technology as a subject of analysis and study, so it is not the first time that it offers this type of training, previously, as we have mentioned in our Cointelegraph portal, the university for December 2020, taught what would be the first course on crypto assets and blockchain, thus taking its first step as part of the public educational sector, to inform about this topic.
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