For more than four years, the Language Department of Universidad PedagogicaNacional engaged in the process of designing a new curriculum for theundergraduate language programs. In 1998, the Department finished designing thenew curriculum for those programs in order to get their official accreditation.Nowadays, after the new curriculum has been accredited, the teacher staff isworking on the design of the programs for each “espacio académico”. taking intoaccount some pedagogical, psychological, sociological and curricular referents.