The investigated problem relates to the need to know the characteristics of the young people attending the first course of university life. It seeks to explain some sociodemographic reference to them in order to identify experiences and changes that occur during the first two years studied. These references enable to show how they build their own university life provisions, new context will demand changes in the way to perceive, see, think and act different from their own secondary level. The research methodology is qualitative and quantitative, selecting as instruments of data collection survey, individual interviews and group interviews. We worked with populations sophomores of different careers belonging to a University of Cordoba.

El problema indagado se relaciona con la necesidad de conocer las características de los jóvenes que cursan el primer trayecto de la vida universitaria. Se pretende dar cuenta de algunas referencias sociodemográficas de los mismos a los fines de identificar experiencias y cambios que se van produciendo durante los dos primeros años de cursado. Dichas referencias permitirán mostrar cómo se van construyendo las disposiciones propias de la vida universitaria, nuevo contexto que demandará cambios en los modos de percibir, apreciar, pensar y actuar distintos de los propiosdel nivel secundario. La  metodología  de  investigación  es  cualitativa  y cuantitativa,  seleccionando como instrumentos de recolección de datos la encuesta, la entrevista individual y entrevista grupal. Se trabajó con poblaciones de estudiantes de segundo año dedistintas carreras pertenecientes ...

The investigated problem relates to the need to know the characteristics of the young people attending the first course of university life. It seeks to explain some sociodemographic reference to them in order to identify experiences and changes that occur during the first two years studied. These references enable to show how they build their own university life provisions, new context will demand changes in the way to perceive, see, think and act different from their own secondary level. The research methodology is qualitative and quantitative, selecting as instruments of data collection survey, individual interviews and group interviews. We worked with populations sophomores of different careers belonging to a University of Cordoba.