Improvement of the discipline Economic Theory for students of agricultural technical profile, Agricultural Engineering Career

Abstract

The results of the improvement in the discipline Economic Theory in the Agricultural Engineering Course are presented in this work. The discipline has provided the theoretical-methodological base for most of the objectives of the Professional Model for Technical Sciences, in this particular case, in the feld of Agricultural Engineering. Economic Theory as an improved discipline contributes to the formation of a specialist with a vision to interpret and solve with certainty, the political and economic processes that take place in the current world, and at the same time, to assume the challenge of the application and creative development of science in the real context in which Cuban economy is involved, guaranteeing, this way, its contribution to the project of social economic development of the country. The authors elaborated a full linking with the implementation of the Cuban Economic Model and a specifc analysis of the property relationships, considering the study of the political economy of the capitalism and the political economy of the transition to socialism, with the necessity of a heterogeneous economy to advance in the invigoration of the socialist economic-productive base. Main results were: the improved discipline of Economic Theory contributes to accomplish the social responsibility; the purposes and aspirations of the future graduate’s way of acting, thinking and feeling, are conformed during the educational process; the determination of the objectives means to transfer to the university the language of each science, being that the society needs from the university graduate.