Curso Ponte Grao en Criminoloxía

• Admission profile

  Por su carácter inter y multidisciplinar, se consideran perfiles idóneos de acceso a la titulación tanto los estudiantes que hayan superado el bachillerato de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, como los que hayan superado el bachillerato en Ciencias y Tecnología. Unos y otros deben haber adquirido las competencias propias del bachillerato, entre ellas las de contar con la madurez personal y social necesarias para actuar responsable y autónomamente, asumir la igualdad efectiva de derechos y oportunidades entre mujeres y hombres, valorar críticamente la realidad del mundo contemporáneo y disponer de conocimientos científicos y tecnológicos fundamentales. Asimismo deberá poseer una especial sensibilidad por la convivencia, el respeto de la democracia y mostrar una buena actitud hacia el trabajo individual y en equipo, tener habilidades de planificación y organización y ser metódico y meticuloso.

  Es de suponer que al grado en Criminología accederán también personas ya incorporadas a la vida profesional, especialmente de aquellos sectores relacionados con las fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad. Además de la voluntad de renovarse y mejorar su situación profesional, de ellas habrá que esperar las mismas capacidades indicadas con anterioridad.

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  1.- El alumnado de primer curso por primera vez a tiempo completo tienen que matricular 60 créditos. Un 15% del alumnado podrá cursar estudios a tiempo parcial (30 créditos).
  2.- Continuación de estudios: libre con un máximo de 75 créditos

• Tutorial action and reception

  On one of the first days of class, the decanal team of the faculty meets with the first-year students to facilitate their entry into the centre. Everything related to teaching and support services is explained to them, and the offer of individual tutoring is presented to them.

  In the first days of the course, the University of Santiago de Compostela holds presentation days for its new students in its faculties and schools. Promoted by the Vice-Chancellor with competences in the field of student support and social action, they aim to provide students with information about the services that the University of Santiago de Compostela makes available to them, as well as the extracurricular offer in terms of training and leisure The presentations are made by professors, technicians, administration and services staff and members of the Management Council of the University of Santiago de Compostela.

  The USC has a programme of student tutors for undergraduate degrees, so that final year students, after training provided by the University, carry out guidance tasks for students who are starting their studies.

  Tutor student programme information:
  Programa alumnos titores

• Title suspension rules

  When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.

  If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.

• Access and admission rules

  Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
  A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
  A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
  A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
  A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university study programmes.
  A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
  A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.
  Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
  B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
  B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
  B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
  Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
  C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education System regulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

This multidisciplinary training of the criminologist allows one to intervene in both the field of crime prevention and crime response procedures. This makes for an extensive professional field, ranging from administration of justice, public or private security, the third sector or attention to victims.

• Basic skills

  - Students must prove that they possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although it relies on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the vanguard of your field of study
  - That the students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the preparation and defence of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study
  - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to issue judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues
  - That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialized and non-specialized public
  - That students develop the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy

• Generic skills

  -Ability to collaborate and interact with others, with a variety of criminological professionals, and on interdisciplinary and multicultural teams.
  -Ability to think critically and constructively and to argue and express oneself in an organised and logical way.
  -Ability to identify and explain complex social problems in the field of criminology and to apply the appropriate strategies to solving them while working from a systemic perspective that makes their analytical and synthetic consideration possible.
  -Acquire critical awareness in analysing the legal system while upholding the principles of respect and promoting human rights, equality and universal accessibility.
  -Ability to use the knowledge that makes criminology a scientific discipline and to identify and develop a set of quantitative and qualitative research strategies, in both basic and applied fields.
  -Ability to gather, interpret and synthesise data and information (especially using modern technologies), in this study field.
  -Ability to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences, using the correct language (legal, medical, psychological, sociological and technical).
  -Ability to analyse and synthesise, gain an overview of problems and to apply knowledge to practice.
  -Ability to take decisions and to adapt to new situations.
  -Recognition of diversity and multiculturalism.

• Specific skills

  - Ability to identify and understand issues related to the fundamental rights of those who are the subject of criminal proceedings, as well as, in general, those who are affected by responses to crime and deviance
  - Ability to assess the methodological and scientific foundations of the various relevant theories on crime, the offender, victimization and responses to crime and deviance
  - Basic understanding of the organisation, structure and functioning of the prison execution system and alternative measures, as well as the methods and strategies necessary to achieve the social reintegration of convicts and the reduction of the harmful effects of prison
  - Competence to provide the judge with scientific knowledge about the criminal events prosecuted, the personality of the perpetrator, the existing criminogenic factors and the type of response applicable, all this with the correct use of criminological concepts and theories, as well as to carry out advisory tasks in relation to the interpretation of forensic reports
  - Understanding and knowledge of the main institutions of public law and the structure and foundation of political systems
  - Ability to explain complex social problems in terms of criminological theory, as well as to clarify representations of crime, the criminal, victimization, responses to crime and deviance from criminological theories and concepts
  - Knowledge of the different existing sociological perspectives around crime and its relationship with the various sociological contexts and domains (the family, social structure, marginality, social control...)
  - Knowledge of the basic notions and concepts of the different sociological schools, especially constructivist sociology and the theory of social imaginaries
  - Knowledge of the main instruments for assessing the risk of antisocial and/or criminal behaviour
  - Understanding and application of the main "theoretical-empirical" knowledge provided by the "biopsycho-social" research regarding the criminal act and antisocial behaviour
  - Acquire the necessary knowledge to request, interpret and approach with scientific rigor the various types of reports or medico-legal expertise
  - Knowledge of the appropriate medico-legal terminology to transmit with scientific rigour your theses and conclusions to magistrates, prosecutors, lawyers, juries, administration and anyone else who requests your services
  - Knowledge of the most appropriate police investigation techniques from the point of view of public safety and fundamental rights, both in relation to the prevention of crime and its prosecution
  - Knowledge of the different criminal cooperation mechanisms, both at the universal level and at the European regional level, for the prosecution of international crimes and other forms of transnational crime
  - Knowledge of the new forms of criminality, especially organised crime, deepening the new criminal investigation techniques and their limits

• Transversal skills

  - Autonomous learning
  - Adaptation to new situations
  - Leadership
  - Motivation for quality and professional excellence
  - Sensitivity to issues of social, economic and environmental reality
  - Spirit of overcoming

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):

Portal Internacional

Internships

The study plan for the degree in criminology includes the completion of a compulsory 16.5-credit Practicum. The fundamental objective is for the students to develop the skills acquired in the subjects of the degree through their immersion in a working environment representative of their future professional context.

To be able to register in the Practicum, students must have passed the following subjects:

-All first- and second-year subjects.

-The following third year subjects:
G3191321 Delinquency and juvenile justice
G3191323 Penology and prison science
G3191326 Criminal psychology II
G3191327 Offender assessment and treatment
G3191330 Criminal process
G3191331 Forensic psychiatry
G3191332 Victimology

-The following fourth year subject:
G3191422 Legal and forensic medicine

The procedures for carrying out the practicum conform to the USC regulations in this regard, approved by the Governing Council (07/29/2015)3 and to the Law Faculty's Quality Assurance System. They will be organised and administered, in order to guarantee quality, academic recognition and the most appropriate use by students. For this, the students will have an external tutor, belonging to the institution where the internship is carried out, who will coordinate with an academic tutor who will carry out the evaluation based on the memory that the students must complete and from the report issued by the external tutor.

They can be carried out in collaborating organisations or entities, such as companies, public and private entities related to the field of criminology in a broad sense. Currently, the Faculty of Law has active internship agreements with numerous companies and institutions which, due to their objectives and content, are likely to be extended and offered to the students of the faculty itself in the future degree in criminology.

To that must be added the cooperation agreement signed between the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Galician Academy of Public Security on March 18, 2009 and renewed throughout the following academic years.

Students must complete a project in which they demonstrate the skills acquired throughout the degree. The faculty, at the proposal of the programme coordinator, will offer assignments each year, taking into account the training content included in the study plan, and tutors. The students will select the topic of the work within that offer and the tutor or tutors will be assigned to each student based on the content of the work and the teaching capacity of the teaching staff. The assessment will be carried out on the basis of an assessment report issued by the tutor. To be able to register for the final dissertation, students must have passed 150 ECTS of the degree, including all basic training.