Basic competencies
- CB1. That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education, and it is usually found at a level that, although it is supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of their field of study.
- CB2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through preparation and defense of arguments and resolution of problems within their area of study.
- CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of social, scientific or ethical nature.
- CB4. To allow students to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions both to a specialized and non-specialized audience
- CB5. That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy
Cross-curricular competencies
- CT1: Self-learning skills: ability to choose the strategies, tools and moments we consider most effective for learning and putting into practice independently what we have learned.
- CT2: Self-confidence: ability to assess our own results, performance and capabilities with the inner conviction that we are capable of performing the tasks and meeting the challenges we are faced with.
- CT3: Capacity to adapt to new situations: being able to assess and understand different positions, adapting one's approach as the situation requires.
- CT4: Analysis and synthesis skills: being able to break down complex situations into their constituent parts, and to evaluate other alternatives and perspectives to find optimal solutions. Synthesis seeks to reduce complexity in order to better understand it and/or solve problems.
- CT5: Capacity to apply knowledge: ability to use the knowledge acquired in the academic environment in situations as similar as possible to the reality of the profession we are preparing for.
- CT6: Oral and written communication skills: ability to transmit and receive data, ideas, opinions and attitudes in order to gain understanding and act, oral communication being based on words and gestures, and written communication on text and/or graphic aids.
- CT7: Ethical values: ability to think and act according to universal principles based on the value of the individual that seek full personal development and which entail a commitment to certain social values.
- CT8: Information management: ability to find, select, analyze and integrate information from different sources.
- CT9: Interpersonal skills: ability to engage positively with other people by verbal and non-verbal means, through assertive communication, meaning the ability to express or convey what we want, what we think or what we feel without upsetting, attacking or hurting the feelings of the other person.
- CT10: Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit: ability to undertake difficult or hazardous actions with resolve. Ability to anticipate problems, suggest improvements and persevere in carrying them out. Preference for undertaking activities and seeing them through.
- CT11: Planning and time management: ability to set goals and choose the means to achieve them, using time and resources effectively.
- CT12: Critical reasoning: ability to analyze an idea, phenomenon or situation from different perspectives and take a personal approach to it, based on rigor and reasoned objectivity, and not on intuition.
- CT13: Problem solving: ability to find a solution to a confusing issue or a complicated situation without a predefined solution, which makes it difficult to achieve a goal.
- CT14: Innovation and creativity: ability to propose and develop new and original value-added solutions to problems, including from areas other than the one in which the problems usually arise.
- CT15: Responsibility: ability to fulfill the commitments we make to ourselves and to others when performing a task and trying to achieve a set of goals within the learning process. Any individual’s ability to acknowledge and accept the consequences of a freely performed action.
- CT16: Decision-making skills: ability to choose between existing alternatives or ways to effectively resolve different situations or problems.
- CT17: Teamwork: ability to integrate and collaborate actively with other people, areas and/or organizations to achieve common goals.
- CT18: Use of information and communication technologies (ICT): Ability to effectively use information and communication technologies as a tool for finding, processing and storing information, as well as for developing communication skills
Specific competencies
- CE1: Ability to know and understand the historical evolution of international society.
- CE2: Ability to know the international legal framework, and its regulation through treaties, agreements, covenants, and resolutions.
- CE3: Knowledge to use research techniques to identify different problems.
- CE4: Ability to know and understand the role of international organisations in current society: their mission, goals, and internal structure.
- CE5: Ability to know and understand the economic repercussions of globalisation, linked to the internationalisation of companies, foreign trade, and global economy.
- CE6: Ability to communicate proficiently in two languages, when it comes to general aspects, and to specific concepts in the professional scenario of International Relations.
- CE7: Knowledge to report and discuss about issues that cause international instability, such as conflicts, inequalities, exclusion, environment, pressure groups, and public opinion, among others.
- CE8: Ability to identify and explain general theories in International Relations.
- CE9: Ability to identify global, universal, and cosmopolitan perspectives in the study of actors, institutions, structures, and transactions that constitute International Relations.
- CE10: Knowledge to understand the basic concepts in International Law.
- CE11: Knowledge to understand how international legal institutions work.
- CE12: Ability to understand the dimension of Human Rights as inspiring values for international society, and for the legal framework on which it is built.
- CE13: Ability to define and implement development goals in agencies and organisations that promote international cooperation.
- CE14: Ability to carry out research and studies about international affairs and the main areas related to them: economics, society, politics, and culture.
- CE15: Ability to use different information sources and channels.
- CE16: Ability to identify and analyse the different geopolitical, geo-economic, and sociocultural areas, as well as their peculiar features.
- CE17: Knowledge to identify similarities and differences between different actors in international relations.
- CE18: Ability to generate, to develop, and to consolidate projects at basic level.
- CE19: Ability to make interpretations and analysis of legal texts.
- CE20: Knowledge to analyse, to understand, and to develop programs and projects oriented towards the improvement of aspects related to international security.
- CE21: Ability to design politics for sustainable development that favour equality, reduce poverty, foster citizen participation, and encourage democratisation processes.
- CE22: Ability to participate in the finding out of solutions about specific problems and conflicts, regardless of the geopolitical area where they occur.
- CE23: Ability to participate in the promotion of peace and peaceful solutions to conflicts.
- CE24: Ability to develop a critical attitude for analysing the past and the present.
- CE25: Ability to make predictions about the evolution of current international affairs.
- CE26: Ability to mediate in the resolution of conflicts in hostile environments.
- CE27: Ability to identify and to interact with different international actors.
- CE28: Knowledge to report, to assess, and to evaluate facts and situations in current international affairs.
