SOVEREIGN CATHOLIC INDIGENOUS AND PRIVATE STATE OF XARAGUA
OFFICE OF THE RECTOR-PRESIDENT
SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL AND ACADEMIC AUTHORITY
UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA
GENERAL ACADEMIC REGISTER
GENERAL ARCHIVES OF THE STATE
SUPREME ORGANIC ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL FORMATION ACT
ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNITY OF THE UNIVERSITY; THE TERRITORIAL AND INDIGENOUS FOUNDATION OF KNOWLEDGE; THE PERMANENT ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMIC JURISDICTIONS; THE COMPULSORY CONSTITUTIONAL, TERRITORIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FORMATION OF XARAGUA; THE SOVEREIGN ACADEMIC CREDIT ORDER; THE CONSTITUTION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY QUALIFICATIONS; THE MOBILIZATION OF DIRECT AND SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION; THE ADMINISTRATION OF RESEARCH, PRACTICAL FORMATION AND INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE; THE PERMANENT REGISTRATION OF ACADEMIC AUTHORITY; AND THE FORMATION OF PERSONNEL REQUIRED FOR THE CONTINUITY OF THE XARAGUAYAN ORDER
Official Classification: Supreme Organic Academic Instrument — Constitutional University Organization Act — Indigenous Territorial Education Statute — Academic Jurisdiction and Competence Law — Sovereign Academic Credit and Qualification Act — Multidisciplinary Formation Regulation — Institutional Knowledge and Public Capacity Instrument
Constituent Authority: Office of the Rector-President
Supreme Academic Authority: University of Xaragua
Competent Academic Organs: Faculties, School of Law, Institutes, Departments, Centres, Chairs, Research Units and Academic Offices lawfully constituted within the University
Permanent Academic Depositary: General Academic Register
Permanent Archival Depositary: General Archives of the State
Territorial Scope: Entire ancestral, constitutional, territorial, maritime, insular, community, institutional, academic and digital jurisdiction of Xaragua
Normative Rank: Supreme Organic Academic Act
Institutional Effect: Permanent, controlling, binding and directly applicable throughout the academic order of the University of Xaragua
Date of Consolidation: 22 September 2026
PREAMBLE
IN THE NAME OF GOD, source of truth, knowledge, justice, lawful authority and institutional order;
BY THE ORIGINAL AND CONTINUING CONSTITUENT AUTHORITY of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
BY THE SUPREME CONSTITUTIONAL COMPETENCE vested in the Office of the Rector-President;
THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF XARAGUA as the supreme academic institution of the Sovereign Catholic Indigenous and Private State of Xaragua;
AFFIRMING that the Indigenous People of Xaragua possesses the inherent and permanent authority to establish, administer, control, develop and preserve its own institutions of education, knowledge, research, historical transmission, professional formation and collective intellectual continuity;
RECOGNIZING that the academic order of Xaragua does not derive its internal existence, jurisdiction or authority from the educational legislation, administrative permission, curricular classifications or institutional authorization of any external political order;
AFFIRMING that the University constitutes the principal academic institution responsible for organizing, preserving, transmitting, applying and developing the knowledge required for the constitutional, territorial, social, economic, environmental, technological, cultural and institutional continuity of Xaragua;
DETERMINING that education shall proceed from the Indigenous People, ancestral territory, constitutional order, historical experience, customary institutions, Catholic foundation, material conditions and systems of collective life proper to Xaragua;
REJECTING the indiscriminate transplantation of academic structures, professional classifications, pedagogical systems and curricular priorities conceived for foreign populations, external administrations, metropolitan labour markets or materially distinct territorial environments;
AFFIRMING that external knowledge may be received, examined, compared, adapted and incorporated without displacing the intellectual authority, curricular jurisdiction or territorial mission of the University;
RECOGNIZING that academic jurisdiction, instructional delivery, technical infrastructure, professional authorization and external recognition constitute separate juridical categories;
DETERMINING that the University may retain academic jurisdiction over a field while mobilizing qualified external capacity for laboratories, clinics, regulated practice, specialized equipment or another technical requirement;
ESTABLISHING that every qualification governed by the compulsory academic core shall remain intellectually connected to the Indigenous People, ancestral territory, constitutional development and contemporary institutions of Xaragua;
CONSTITUTING the Microprogram in the Constitutional, Territorial and Institutional Formation of Xaragua as the compulsory foundational formation common to the academic order of the University;
ORGANIZING the faculties, School of Law, academic units, microprograms, certificates, multidisciplinary bachelor’s degrees, advanced multidisciplinary bachelor’s degrees, research functions and institutional registers as components of one supreme academic order;
ACTING pursuant to Articles 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 18, 20, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 34 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
ACTING consistently with Articles III, VI, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XIX, XXI, XXIII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX and XXXI of the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;
RECALLING the principles expressed in Articles 5, 7, 8, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989;
RECOGNIZING Articles 13 and 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Articles 18, 22 and 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
HEREBY ENACTS, CONSTITUTES, CONSOLIDATES AND ORDERS THE PERMANENT EXECUTION of the following Supreme Organic Academic and Institutional Formation Act.
TITLE I
SUPREME CONSTITUTION OF THE ACADEMIC ORDER
Article 1 — Object
This Act establishes the supreme organic order governing:
a) the constitutional and territorial mission of the University;
b) the unity and hierarchy of academic authority;
c) the permanent organization of faculties and academic jurisdictions;
d) the School of Law and juridical-political formation;
e) the compulsory foundational formation of Xaragua;
f) the constitution and administration of microprograms;
g) the accumulation of Sovereign Academic Credits;
h) the establishment of certificates and multidisciplinary degrees;
i) direct, joint, delegated, contracted and recognized instruction;
j) practical and professional formation;
k) research and institutional knowledge;
l) academic assessment, equivalency and recognition;
m) the permanent registration of credits and qualifications; and
n) the application of University formation to the institutions, territories, communities and collective requirements of Xaragua.
Article 2 — Supreme Academic Authority
The University of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic institution of the constitutional order of Xaragua.
It possesses permanent authority to establish, constitute, classify, regulate, administer and preserve:
a) faculties;
b) schools;
c) institutes;
d) departments;
e) centres;
f) academic chairs;
g) research units;
h) programs;
i) majors;
j) microprograms;
k) courses;
l) curricula;
m) assessment systems;
n) academic standards;
o) practical formations;
p) research activities;
q) Sovereign Academic Credits;
r) credentials; and
s) permanent academic records.
No subordinate academic organ shall exercise authority independently of the supreme academic jurisdiction of the University.
Article 3 — Constitutional Source of Academic Authority
The authority of the University proceeds from:
a) the original constituent authority of the Indigenous People of Xaragua;
b) the Constitution and supreme law of Xaragua;
c) the supreme constitutional competence of the Office of the Rector-President;
d) the Indigenous right to establish and control educational institutions and systems of knowledge;
e) the territorial and institutional continuity of Xaragua; and
f) the permanent obligation to transmit knowledge required for collective continuity.
External recognition may produce effects within the jurisdiction granting that recognition. It shall not constitute the originating source of the University, its faculties, its programs, its credits or its credentials.
Article 4 — Organic Unity
Every Faculty, School, Institute, Department, Centre, Chair, academic office, program, microprogram, course, research unit and specialized service constitutes a component of one indivisible academic order.
The allocation of jurisdiction among academic organs shall organize competence without fragmenting the constitutional unity of the University.
Every academic act shall receive institutional effect through the competent authority, applicable procedure, permanent registration and authentication of the University.
Article 5 — Governing Academic Principles
The academic order shall be governed by:
a) Indigenous self-determination;
b) territorial relevance;
c) constitutional unity;
d) academic sovereignty;
e) institutional competence;
f) legal certainty;
g) documentary traceability;
h) demonstrated learning;
i) interdisciplinary coordination;
j) scientific and methodological integrity;
k) protection of collective intellectual patrimony;
l) permanent registration;
m) acquired academic rights; and
n) intergenerational continuity.
TITLE II
INDIGENOUS TERRITORIAL EDUCATION
Article 6 — Territorial Character
The University of Xaragua is a territorial university.
Its academic identity, curricular priorities, research jurisdiction and methods of knowledge production shall proceed from the ancestral territory and from the historical, political, juridical, cultural, ecological, economic, spiritual and material relationships through which the Indigenous People has occupied, understood, governed and transmitted that territory.
Territorial character shall include lands, mountains, valleys, watersheds, coasts, islands, waters, settlements, communities, routes, resources, institutions, archives, customary relations and collective memory.
Article 7 — Indigenous Constitution of Knowledge
Knowledge shall be organized as an intergenerational public capacity through which Xaragua:
a) interprets its historical formation;
b) understands its territory;
c) preserves its institutions;
d) governs its present conditions;
e) protects collective rights;
f) administers resources;
g) develops scientific and technical capacity; and
h) prepares its institutional future.
Written sources, oral histories, customary practices, scientific methods, territorial observation, documentary archives, collective memory and lived experience may constitute academic sources according to their respective authority and evidentiary character.
Article 8 — Territorial Relevance
No curriculum shall be deemed academically complete merely because it reproduces the classifications, course titles or administrative divisions of an external university.
Every field shall be organized according to:
a) its relevance to Xaragua;
b) its relationship to the ancestral territory;
c) its institutional purpose;
d) its contribution to collective continuity;
e) its scientific, juridical, economic, cultural or professional value; and
f) the capacity through which it may be lawfully taught, assessed and registered.
Article 9 — Selective Reception of External Knowledge
The University may receive and incorporate external theories, methods, technologies, doctrines, literature, scientific findings and professional practices.
Reception shall be governed by:
a) academic relevance;
b) constitutional compatibility;
c) scientific or professional value;
d) territorial applicability;
e) methodological integrity;
f) accessibility;
g) institutional necessity; and
h) protection of Indigenous knowledge and collective rights.
Reception shall not constitute submission. Comparison shall not constitute imitation. Cooperation shall not transfer curricular authority.
Article 10 — Institutional Non-Assimilation
No partnership, accreditation process, grant, technical agreement, transfer arrangement, external evaluation or institutional cooperation measure shall compel the University to abandon:
a) its Indigenous educational foundation;
b) its territorial mission;
c) its compulsory academic core;
d) its constitutional terminology;
e) its academic hierarchy;
f) its control over assessment and credits; or
g) its authority over the permanent academic record.
TITLE III
PERMANENT ACADEMIC ARCHITECTURE
Article 11 — Constituted Academic Organs
The permanent academic architecture of the University shall comprise:
a) the School of Law of Xaragua;
b) the juridical-political formation in Indigenous Law and Political Science;
c) the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences;
d) the Faculty of Economic Studies;
e) the Faculty of Environmental Studies;
f) the Faculty of Technology and Biological Sciences;
g) the Roger Mathurin Faculty of Photography, Videography, Social and Multimedia Studies;
h) the Faculty of Urban Planning and Territorial Studies;
i) the General Academic Register;
j) academic institutes, departments, centres, chairs and research units established by competent act; and
k) any additional academic organ constituted by supreme academic authority.
Article 12 — Allocation of Academic Jurisdiction
Each academic organ shall exercise jurisdiction over the fields, microprograms, research activities, assessments and qualification responsibilities assigned to it by University law.
Related academic organs may exercise coordinated jurisdiction over a common subject where the subject possesses distinct juridical, social, economic, environmental, technological, documentary or territorial dimensions.
Interdisciplinary coordination shall not extinguish the principal jurisdiction of a competent academic organ.
Article 13 — Academic Jurisdiction and Instructional Capacity
Academic jurisdiction means the lawful authority to:
a) define a field of study;
b) establish curricula;
c) prescribe learning outcomes;
d) authorize instruction;
e) determine assessment;
f) assign credits;
g) supervise research;
h) authenticate completion; and
i) recommend or authorize conferral.
The existence of academic jurisdiction shall not be interpreted as a declaration that every laboratory, clinic, workshop, technical facility or specialized practitioner associated with that jurisdiction is maintained internally by the University.
Article 14 — Academic Continuity
Every constituted academic organ shall continue notwithstanding changes affecting:
a) personnel;
b) instructional method;
c) physical premises;
d) territorial location;
e) digital platform;
f) technical providers;
g) external cooperation; or
h) temporary operational capacity.
Its jurisdiction, registers, curricula, archives and institutional identity shall remain vested in the University.
TITLE IV
JURIDICAL AND POLITICAL FORMATION
Article 15 — School of Law of Xaragua
The School of Law of Xaragua constitutes the supreme academic organ responsible for:
a) Indigenous legal education;
b) Xaraguayan constitutional law;
c) customary law;
d) legal pluralism;
e) juridical research;
f) legislative formation;
g) institutional drafting;
h) professional preparation;
i) public-law studies;
j) private juridical relations;
k) procedure and evidence;
l) territorial and resource law;
m) international and inter-American Indigenous rights; and
n) relations between Xaraguayan and external legal orders.
Article 16 — Major in Indigenous Law and Political Science
The Major in Indigenous Law and Political Science shall constitute the principal juridical-political formation of the University.
Its permanent identity shall include:
a) Indigenous law;
b) customary juridical orders;
c) constitutional organization;
d) constituent authority;
e) self-determination;
f) autonomy and self-government;
g) public administration;
h) political institutions;
i) comparative government;
j) legal pluralism;
k) territorial governance;
l) legislative studies;
m) public policy;
n) political economy;
o) international relations;
p) diplomacy;
q) international organizations;
r) treaties and conventions;
s) collective rights;
t) community governance; and
u) institutional drafting.
Article 17 — Juridical-Political Pathways
The Major shall be completed with the complementary formations prescribed by its governing regulation.
The domestic academic pathway may include the compulsory Microprogram in Haytian Law and another authorized complementary microprogram.
The foreign-student pathway may include two authorized complementary microprograms selected according to the student’s academic purpose.
The identity, requirements and academic authority of the Major shall remain constant irrespective of the complementary pathway.
Article 18 — Professional Jurisdiction
Academic qualification, admission to the Bar of Xaragua and authorization to perform reserved professional acts within an external jurisdiction constitute separate juridical determinations.
The University shall determine academic formation.
The Bar of Xaragua shall determine admission to the Xaraguayan legal profession.
An external authority shall determine professional authorization within the jurisdiction legally entrusted to it.
TITLE V
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Article 19 — Permanent Jurisdiction
The Faculty of Social and Human Sciences shall exercise academic jurisdiction over:
a) history;
b) sociology;
c) anthropology;
d) ethnology;
e) philosophy;
f) psychology and social psychology;
g) political psychology;
h) geography;
i) demography;
j) population studies;
k) family studies;
l) women’s studies;
m) cultural studies;
n) literature and social thought;
o) education;
p) community institutions;
q) migration;
r) social policy;
s) criminology as a social science;
t) addiction and dependency studies;
u) mediation and conflict transformation;
v) religion and Catholic institutions;
w) canon law as an institutional and historical field;
x) archival and documentary studies;
y) research methodology; and
z) related social, humanistic and cultural fields.
Article 20 — Historical, Philosophical and Cultural Formation
Historical, philosophical, literary, religious and cultural studies shall be administered within the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and through any department, chair, institute or microprogram lawfully established under its jurisdiction.
Such fields shall not require the constitution of a separate faculty.
Article 21 — Social and Institutional Purpose
The Faculty shall organize the knowledge required to interpret:
a) peoples and populations;
b) social formations;
c) families and communities;
d) identities and systems of belonging;
e) historical continuity;
f) colonial and postcolonial transformations;
g) institutions of care and social protection;
h) collective behaviour;
i) cultural and religious life;
j) social regulation;
k) communication and public information; and
l) the transmission of collective memory.
TITLE VI
FACULTY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
Article 22 — Permanent Jurisdiction
The Faculty of Economic Studies shall exercise academic jurisdiction over:
a) economics;
b) political economy;
c) social and community economy;
d) public finance;
e) taxation;
f) monetary and credit systems;
g) banking;
h) accounting and auditing;
i) financial administration;
j) enterprise;
k) entrepreneurship;
l) cooperatives;
m) commerce;
n) labour economics;
o) employment administration;
p) logistics and supply systems;
q) investment;
r) project evaluation;
s) procurement;
t) economic statistics;
u) financial regulation;
v) agricultural and fishery economics;
w) maritime commerce;
x) resource economics;
y) territorial development; and
z) related fields of economic and institutional administration.
Article 23 — Territorial Economic Doctrine
Economic formation shall examine the production, circulation, conservation, financing and allocation of resources according to the material conditions of Xaragua.
The Faculty shall treat households, communities, cooperatives, enterprises, agriculture, fisheries, transport, energy, housing, construction, digital exchange, taxation, public expenditure and natural resources as constituent elements of a distinct territorial economy.
Article 24 — Institutional Economic Capacity
The Faculty shall form academic competence in:
a) economic analysis;
b) budgeting;
c) accounting;
d) fiscal administration;
e) enterprise organization;
f) project management;
g) investment assessment;
h) procurement;
i) logistics;
j) economic reporting;
k) statistical interpretation; and
l) administration of public, community and private economic institutions.
TITLE VII
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Article 25 — Permanent Jurisdiction
The Faculty of Environmental Studies shall exercise academic jurisdiction over:
a) environmental governance;
b) ecology;
c) biodiversity;
d) conservation;
e) land and water protection;
f) forests and watersheds;
g) soils;
h) agriculture and agroecology;
i) food sovereignty;
j) fisheries;
k) coastal and marine environments;
l) climate resilience;
m) environmental risk;
n) sanitation;
o) waste and material recovery;
p) environmental health;
q) renewable and decentralized energy;
r) natural-resource governance;
s) environmental economics;
t) environmental mapping;
u) environmental statistics;
v) environmental-impact assessment;
w) restoration;
x) Indigenous ecological knowledge; and
y) related environmental and territorial fields.
Article 26 — Environmental Authority
Where competent law assigns regulatory or technical functions to the Faculty or to an associated Environmental Authority, those functions may include:
a) environmental classification;
b) technical standards;
c) monitoring requirements;
d) environmental registers;
e) inspection procedures;
f) impact-assessment requirements;
g) pollution-control measures;
h) waste-management conditions;
i) sanitation standards;
j) restoration requirements; and
k) protection of Indigenous environmental rights.
Academic study, technical assessment and regulatory effect shall remain distinguishable according to the authority through which each act is adopted.
Article 27 — Collective Environmental Responsibility
Environmental instruction and research shall remain accountable to:
a) territorial integrity;
b) collective resource rights;
c) ecological protection;
d) community health;
e) Indigenous knowledge;
f) intergenerational responsibility; and
g) preservation of the productive foundations of territorial life.
TITLE VIII
FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Article 28 — Permanent Jurisdiction
The Faculty of Technology and Biological Sciences shall exercise academic jurisdiction over:
a) biological sciences;
b) cellular and molecular foundations;
c) genetics;
d) botany;
e) zoology;
f) microbiology;
g) biotechnology;
h) bioinformatics;
i) biological resources;
j) computing;
k) software systems;
l) databases;
m) digital registries;
n) information architecture;
o) cybersecurity;
p) telecommunications;
q) electronics;
r) automation;
s) instrumentation;
t) artificial intelligence;
u) materials and fabrication;
v) appropriate technology;
w) scientific measurement;
x) laboratory method;
y) technology management; and
z) related scientific and technical fields.
Article 29 — Territorial Function of Technology
Technology shall be studied and administered as an instrument of territorial capacity.
Academic priority may be assigned to systems strengthening:
a) communications;
b) public records;
c) digital identity;
d) geographic information;
e) education;
f) economic activity;
g) energy access;
h) environmental observation;
i) scientific documentation;
j) administrative continuity; and
k) community organization.
Article 30 — Scientific Facilities and External Capacity
The Faculty may establish laboratories, workshops, databases, technical repositories and scientific collections.
Where specialized infrastructure is not maintained internally, the University may incorporate qualified external capacity under formal academic authorization.
Every external scientific or technical component shall remain subject to University requirements concerning competence, curriculum, safety, assessment, credits, records and institutional responsibility.
TITLE IX
ROGER MATHURIN FACULTY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL AND MULTIMEDIA STUDIES
Article 31 — Official Name and Permanent Jurisdiction
The official institutional name shall be:
ROGER MATHURIN FACULTY OF PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL AND MULTIMEDIA STUDIES.
The Faculty shall exercise jurisdiction over:
a) photography;
b) videography;
c) cinematography;
d) documentary production;
e) journalism;
f) sound production;
g) broadcasting;
h) graphic communication;
i) visual communication;
j) social media;
k) multimedia production;
l) digital publication;
m) public information;
n) institutional communication;
o) strategic communication;
p) audiovisual preservation;
q) archival imaging;
r) territorial documentation;
s) visual anthropology;
t) documentary authentication; and
u) related media fields.
Article 32 — Documentary Mandate
The Faculty shall constitute a principal academic and documentary organ for the visual, audiovisual, journalistic and multimedia representation of Xaragua.
It shall preserve standards of:
a) factual accuracy;
b) territorial identification;
c) documentary provenance;
d) institutional authorization;
e) intellectual-property administration;
f) archival preservation; and
g) permanent registration.
TITLE X
FACULTY OF URBAN PLANNING AND TERRITORIAL STUDIES
Article 33 — Permanent Jurisdiction
The Faculty of Urban Planning and Territorial Studies shall exercise academic jurisdiction over:
a) territorial organization;
b) urban planning;
c) regional planning;
d) rural planning;
e) community development;
f) land use;
g) zoning;
h) settlement systems;
i) housing policy;
j) land administration;
k) cadastral systems;
l) transportation planning;
m) territorial logistics;
n) infrastructure policy;
o) public facilities;
p) public space;
q) coastal and island planning;
r) territorial risk;
s) heritage planning;
t) cartography;
u) geographic information systems;
v) territorial demography;
w) spatial statistics; and
x) planning administration.
Article 34 — Territorial Observatory
The Faculty may maintain a Territorial Observatory responsible for:
a) territorial inventories;
b) demographic observation;
c) settlement analysis;
d) land-use documentation;
e) infrastructure records;
f) cartographic production;
g) spatial databases;
h) territorial indicators;
i) planning research; and
j) preservation of official academic spatial records.
Article 35 — Status of Planning Instruments
A map, plan, study, model or territorial dossier prepared by the Faculty shall constitute an academic or technical planning instrument.
Binding regulatory or administrative effect shall arise only through formal adoption by the constitutionally competent authority.
TITLE XI
COMPULSORY XARAGUAYAN FOUNDATIONAL FORMATION
Article 36 — Compulsory Foundational Microprogram
Microprogram No. 1 — Constitutional, Territorial and Institutional Formation of Xaragua — constitutes the compulsory foundational microprogram applicable to qualifications governed by the common academic core.
It shall possess a statutory value of fifteen Sovereign Academic Credits.
Article 37 — Curricular Composition
The Microprogram shall comprise five compulsory courses of three Sovereign Academic Credits each:
1.1 — Indigenous Civilizations, Cacicazgos and Ancestral Political Orders;
1.2 — Colonial Government, Territorial Reclassification and Institutional Dispossession;
1.3 — Revolutionary, Imperial, Republican and Indigenous Constitutional Formations;
1.4 — Territorial, Maritime, Insular and Community Organization of Xaragua; and
1.5 — Contemporary Constitutional Institutions and Public Order of Xaragua.
Article 38 — Constitutional Function
The foundational Microprogram shall establish the Indigenous, historical, constitutional, territorial, maritime, community and institutional knowledge required for entry into the wider academic order of the University.
It shall provide the common framework within which students examine:
a) original Indigenous societies;
b) ancestral political institutions;
c) colonial occupation;
d) territorial reclassification;
e) Indigenous and African continuity;
f) marronage and autonomous communities;
g) revolutionary institutions;
h) constitutional formations;
i) territorial organization;
j) collective memory;
k) contemporary institutions; and
l) public order.
Article 39 — Academic Outcomes
Completion shall require demonstrated competence in:
a) identifying political and constitutional orders;
b) distinguishing jurisdictions and authorities;
c) interpreting historical and contemporary institutions;
d) examining territorial transformations;
e) reading maps and territorial records;
f) classifying documentary sources;
g) distinguishing fact, inference and interpretation;
h) preparing institutional memoranda;
i) constructing documentary registers; and
j) producing a final constitutional or territorial dossier.
Article 40 — General Application
The fifteen Sovereign Academic Credits acquired through Microprogram No. 1 shall be entered permanently in the General Academic Register.
They shall satisfy the foundational component of subsequent certificates, multidisciplinary bachelor’s degrees and advanced multidisciplinary bachelor’s degrees established under University law.
No Faculty, School, Institute, Department, Centre or subordinate academic authority may diminish, dispense with or substitute the foundational requirement except through an express determination issued by competent supreme academic authority.
TITLE XII
MICROPROGRAMS AND SOVEREIGN ACADEMIC CREDITS
Article 41 — Uniform Microprogram Structure
Every University microprogram shall comprise five courses of three Sovereign Academic Credits each.
Every completed microprogram shall possess a total statutory value of fifteen Sovereign Academic Credits.
Article 42 — Constituent Elements
Every microprogram shall possess:
a) an official title;
b) an official number;
c) an identified academic jurisdiction;
d) five approved courses;
e) prescribed competencies;
f) identified instructional authority;
g) verifiable assessment;
h) completion requirements; and
i) permanent registration.
Article 43 — Attestation of Specialization
Successful completion of one registered microprogram shall authorize conferral of an Attestation of Specialization identifying the official title of the completed formation.
The fifteen credits shall retain their identity after accumulation toward a broader qualification.
Article 44 — Sovereign Academic Credit
A Sovereign Academic Credit constitutes the unit through which the University measures, authenticates and permanently records completed academic work.
Credits may be assigned to:
a) courses;
b) microprograms;
c) supervised research;
d) practical formation;
e) placements;
f) recognized external instruction;
g) assessed prior learning;
h) final projects; and
i) other registered academic work.
No credit shall possess effect until assessed, authorized and entered into the General Academic Register.
TITLE XIII
MULTIDISCIPLINARY QUALIFICATIONS
Article 45 — Certificate
A Multidisciplinary Certificate shall comprise two approved microprograms representing thirty Sovereign Academic Credits.
The credential shall identify each constituent formation and its official academic number.
Article 46 — Multidisciplinary Bachelor’s Degree
A Multidisciplinary Bachelor’s Degree shall comprise six approved microprograms representing ninety Sovereign Academic Credits.
Its curriculum shall include:
a) Microprogram No. 1;
b) an approved research or methodological formation;
c) four additional approved microprograms;
d) formation drawn from the number of fields prescribed by the competent Faculty Act; and
e) an integrative academic assessment.
Article 47 — Advanced Multidisciplinary Bachelor’s Degree
An Advanced Multidisciplinary Bachelor’s Degree shall comprise eight approved microprograms representing one hundred and twenty Sovereign Academic Credits.
Its curriculum shall include:
a) Microprogram No. 1;
b) the methodological formations prescribed by the competent Faculty;
c) the required specialized microprograms;
d) a final research, territorial, institutional, scientific, documentary or applied project; and
e) an oral or written defence before the competent academic authority.
Article 48 — Juridical-Political Degree
The principal juridical-political degree governed by the Major in Indigenous Law and Political Science shall be constituted according to its specific major regulation.
The rules governing multidisciplinary qualifications shall apply only to the extent expressly incorporated into that regulation.
Article 49 — Academic Concentrations
A Faculty may register an academic concentration where the student’s completed microprograms form a coherent body of formation within an authorized field.
The concentration shall be recorded in the academic supplement and shall not extinguish the separate title or credit value of any constituent microprogram.
TITLE XIV
DIRECT AND SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION
Article 50 — Direct Instruction
The University may provide direct instruction through:
a) appointed instructors;
b) academic officers;
c) researchers;
d) institutional specialists;
e) authoritative reading corpora;
f) constitutional, legislative and administrative instruments;
g) guided documentary analysis;
h) case studies;
i) seminars;
j) tutorials;
k) supervised research;
l) digital instruction;
m) audiovisual instruction; and
n) authorized academic publications.
Article 51 — University Corpus
The constitutions, laws, regulations, academic acts, historical studies, territorial dossiers, economic instruments, environmental policies, institutional records, archives and official publications of Xaragua constitute academic materials of the University.
The corpus may be used for:
a) instruction;
b) assessment;
c) research;
d) documentary analysis;
e) comparative study;
f) institutional exercises; and
g) preparation of academic and public instruments.
Article 52 — Specialized Instruction
The University may mobilize qualified specialized capacity where instruction requires:
a) laboratories;
b) clinics or hospitals;
c) industrial or scientific equipment;
d) regulated professional supervision;
e) advanced technical infrastructure;
f) biological experimentation;
g) medical or nursing practice;
h) engineering or architectural facilities;
i) external domestic-law specialization; or
j) another environment not maintained directly by the University.
Article 53 — Forms of Authorized Participation
Specialized instruction may be delivered through:
a) accredited institutions;
b) contracted instructors;
c) joint programs;
d) affiliated providers;
e) external courses;
f) supervised placements;
g) laboratory agreements;
h) clinical agreements;
i) professional practicums;
j) visiting specialists;
k) technical institutes; and
l) recognized distance instruction.
Article 54 — Continuing Academic Control
The University shall determine:
a) the provider authorized to participate;
b) the content incorporated;
c) the prerequisites;
d) the instructional level;
e) the assessment requirements;
f) the documentary evidence required;
g) the Sovereign Academic Credits recognized;
h) the equivalency granted;
i) the credential to which the formation applies; and
j) the conditions governing permanent registration.
External participation shall supply specialized competence. It shall not transfer academic jurisdiction.
TITLE XV
PRACTICAL FORMATION AND RESEARCH
Article 55 — Practical Formation
Academic programs may incorporate:
a) constitutional and legislative drafting;
b) institutional memoranda;
c) policy analysis;
d) budget preparation;
e) accounting exercises;
f) business and cooperative plans;
g) territorial dossiers;
h) mapping;
i) environmental assessments;
j) archival projects;
k) community studies;
l) photographic and audiovisual production;
m) laboratory exercises;
n) information-system projects;
o) supervised field observation;
p) authorized placements; and
q) final applied projects.
Article 56 — Institutional Placements
The University may authorize placements within:
a) University institutions;
b) ministries;
c) public authorities;
d) autonomous communities;
e) archives;
f) libraries;
g) media institutions;
h) enterprises;
i) cooperatives;
j) Indigenous organizations;
k) research institutions;
l) educational institutions;
m) laboratories;
n) clinics;
o) environmental bodies;
p) territorial authorities; and
q) authorized external institutions.
Every placement shall possess an identified academic purpose, competent supervision, defined assessment and permanent documentary record.
Article 57 — Research Authority
The University may conduct, commission, supervise, evaluate, register, publish and preserve research within every field placed under its academic jurisdiction.
Research may be applied to:
a) academic instruction;
b) constitutional interpretation;
c) legislation;
d) public policy;
e) territorial administration;
f) economic planning;
g) environmental governance;
h) scientific development;
i) community administration;
j) historical preservation;
k) documentary production; and
l) institutional decision-making.
Article 58 — Research Integrity
Every research activity shall identify:
a) its responsible authority;
b) its object;
c) its method;
d) its sources;
e) its evidentiary limits;
f) its territorial and institutional relevance;
g) any ethical or protective conditions;
h) its resulting records; and
i) its status within the academic corpus.
TITLE XVI
ASSESSMENT, RECOGNITION AND ACADEMIC RIGHTS
Article 59 — Assessment
Academic competence may be assessed through:
a) examinations;
b) essays;
c) case analyses;
d) research papers;
e) oral presentations;
f) institutional projects;
g) practical demonstrations;
h) portfolios;
i) supervised placements;
j) legislative drafts;
k) policy memoranda;
l) audiovisual productions;
m) laboratory work;
n) territorial studies; and
o) final comprehensive evaluations.
Assessment shall establish demonstrated competence and shall not be satisfied solely by passive attendance or nominal participation.
Article 60 — External Coursework
The University may recognize external coursework according to:
a) institutional origin;
b) academic content;
c) instructional level;
d) learning requirements;
e) assessment method;
f) documentary verification;
g) relevance to the student’s pathway; and
h) corresponding Sovereign Academic Credit value.
Recognition shall derive from a competent decision of the University.
Article 61 — Prior Learning
The University may assess prior academic, professional, institutional, community or independent learning.
Credit shall be granted only for competence demonstrated through a method approved by the competent academic authority.
Article 62 — Protection of Earned Credits
No subsequent curricular amendment, administrative reorganization, change of instructional authority, modification of delivery method or alteration of academic nomenclature shall extinguish a credit or qualification lawfully earned under the requirements applicable at the time of completion.
Equivalent prior work may be reclassified under a subsequent academic designation without duplication of credit.
TITLE XVII
GENERAL ACADEMIC REGISTER
Article 63 — Constitutional Function
The General Academic Register constitutes the permanent public-academic authority responsible for recording, authenticating and preserving the academic acts of the University.
Article 64 — Mandatory Entries
The Register shall record:
a) student admission;
b) the principal academic pathway;
c) every registered microprogram;
d) individual courses;
e) assessment results;
f) Sovereign Academic Credits;
g) practical formation;
h) recognized external instruction;
i) assessed prior learning;
j) research and final projects;
k) academic distinctions;
l) completion determinations;
m) credentials conferred; and
n) any subsequent continuing formation.
Article 65 — Official Academic Profile
The official academic profile shall identify separately:
PRINCIPAL FORMATION OR MAJOR;
COMPULSORY FOUNDATIONAL MICROPROGRAM;
COMPLEMENTARY MICROPROGRAMS;
ADDITIONAL SPECIALIZED FORMATIONS;
PRACTICAL OR RESEARCH COMPONENTS;
RECOGNIZED EXTERNAL FORMATION;
TOTAL SOVEREIGN ACADEMIC CREDITS; AND
CREDENTIAL CONFERRED.
Article 66 — Documentary Authority
Every transcript, attestation, certificate, degree, academic supplement, equivalency and completion decision shall derive its official evidentiary authority from competent issuance and permanent registration.
The University shall maintain procedures for verification, correction, certification, preservation and authorized reproduction of academic records.