Competences

Political Science and Public Management
• Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
• Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
• Demonstrating good writing skills in different contexts.
• Develop analytical and/or intervention frameworks that consider the historical dimension of political and social processes.
• Develop critical thought and reasoning and be able to communicate them effectively, both in your own language and second or third languages.
• Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
• Distinguishing the discipline's main theories and different fields: conceptual developments, theoretical frameworks and theoretical approaches underlying the discipline's knowledge and different areas and sub-areas, as well as their value for the professional practice through concrete cases.
• Interpreting political and social historical frameworks, as precedents of the actual ones, in order to better comprehending today's reality.
• Make changes to the methods and processes of the area of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and wishes of society.
• Managing the available time in order to accomplish the established objectives and fulfil the intended task.
• Realising effective oral presentations that are suited to the audience.
• Showing a good capacity for transmitting information, distinguishing key messages for their different recipients.
• Synthesizing and critically analysing information.
• Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
• Working autonomously.

Sociology
• Analysing the problems arising from the implementation of public policies and conflict situations by recognising the complexity of the social phenomena and political decisions affecting democracy, human rights, social justice and sustainable development.
• Applying the concepts and approaches of the sociological theory, specially the explanations of social inequalities between classes, between genders and between ethnic groups, to the implementation of public policies and to the resolution of conflict situations.
• Describing social phenomena in a theoretically relevant way, bearing in mind the complexity of the involved factors, its causes and its effects.
• Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
• Developing self-learning strategies.
• Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
• Students must be capable of assessing the quality of their own work.
• Students must be capable of managing their own time, planning their own study, managing the relationship with their tutor or adviser, as well as setting and meeting deadlines for a work project.

International Relations
• Analyse the behaviour of international actors, both state and non-state.
• Analyse the structure and operation of international institutions and organisations (political, economic, military and security, environmental, development and emergency aid) both in the universal and regional spheres, with particular emphasis on the European Union, from either real or simulated cases.
• Identify data sources and carry out rigorous bibliographical and documentary searches.
• Identify the main theories of international relations and their different fields (international theory, conflicts and security, international politics, etc.) to apply them in professional practice.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
• Use metatheoretical data to argue and establish plausible relation of causality and establish ways of validating or rejecting them.