Master's Degree in Local Government and Innovative Public Policies

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Completion requirements:

Compulsory: 24
Optional: 12
External internships 9
Master’s Final Project: 6
Total: 60

La Universidad dispone de diversos servicios para el apoyo y orientación del alumnado durante su trayectoria universitaria, que se describen a continuación.

Asesoramiento y acción tutorial.

-Informar sobre las características académicas de los estudios y sobre sus salidasprofesionales.
-Informar sobre el régimen de acceso y permanencia del alumnado en la Universidad.
-Informar sobre los derechos del alumnado y asesorar sobre el modo de ejercerlos y/oreclamarlos.
-Informar, a nivel general y en los Centros, de las becas y ayudas convocadas.
-Promover la creación de becas y ayudas y proponer a las Juntas de Gobierno las acciones a llevar a cabo en materia de becas, ayudas y exenciones.
-Asesorar en la búsqueda de empleo. En esta línea se realizan varias actuaciones quetienen como finalidad atender necesidades de información y orientación laboral. Ofreceinformación sobre salidas profesionales, prácticas, ofertas de empleo, direcciones deempresas, ayudas y subvenciones para el autoempleo.
-Asesorar en la creación de empresas nuevas.
-Programas europeos.

Dispone también de planes de acción tutorial que asigna profesorado tutor a cada estudiante para ofrecer asesoramiento académico en cuanto a las opciones y la orientación de su proyecto académico y profesional.

When an official degree is suspended, the USC guarantees the adequate and effective development of the studies started by its students until their completion. The USC Governing Council approves the criteria related, among others, to:
•    Admission of new enrollment in the degree program.
•    The gradual suppression of teaching.
•    If the finalized degree is replaced by a similar one (modifying the nature of the degree), it establishes the conditions that facilitate students' continuity of studies in the new degree and the equivalences between the courses of the former and new program.

Access

Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

1. As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
2. Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institucion de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
3. Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que os ditos títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

Admission

Modality: specific criteria

degrees by order of preference:

1. Degrees in Social Sciences
2. Degrees in Sociology, Law, Economics and other Social and Legal Sciences.
3. Rest of degrees.

Students coming from countries with a language other than Galician, Portuguese or Spanish must accredit the Galician language level: Celga II, or Spanish: B2, according to the Agreement of the Consello de Goberno of the USC of February 28, 2019.

If they do not have any of the qualifications, the USC will give them a level test and, if they do not pass it, they must attend an intensive course of Galician or Spanish in the first semester until they reach the required level.

Selection criteria

- Academic report: 60%
- working experience: 20%
- Personal interview (in the committee considers it necessary): 20%

Information is updated in each enrolment call

- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas —usually in a research context.

- Students must know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their capacity of problem solving in new or uncommon surroundings. All of this, inside broader —or multidisciplinary— contexts associated with their study area.

- Students must be able to integrate knowledge and confront the complexity of making judgements from information which could be incomplete and limited. This information must include reflections about social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their study areas’ knowledge and judgements.

- Students must know how to clearly and unambiguously communicate their conclusions —and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them— to specialized and non-specialized public.

- Students must possess learning abilities that will allow them to continue studying, in a way which would be largely self-directed and autonomous.

- Ability to analyze, synthesize and integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments with limited information.
- To acquire high level knowledge, tools and resources in order to fulfill the research and professional expectations of students and society in relation to the organization of local government and innovative public policies.
- Ability to make reflections and critical analysis of social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements in the field of local administrations management.
- Ability to generate new ideas and solve problems in changing environments that allow advances in the knowledge of local management and public policies.
- Ability to apply the acquired knowledge to a specific job or to an original research process.
- Ability to recover and analyze information from different sources, that allows to design, create, develop and undertake innovative projects in the field of local public managemnet and of social sciences in general.
- Ability to approach complex, critical and indispensable situations in a systematic and creative way, with critical judgment, incomplete information, taking risks, making decisions and communicating them to any kind of audience.
- To act in an autonomous way in the evaluation of sociopolitical events, predict their possible development scenarios and adopt the relevant measures to take advantage of the opportunities and synergies in which the local administration may be involved.
- To manage and direct projects ensuring the involvement of key actors involved.
- To develop and strategic thinking that allows to define problems, to diagnose and structure analysis and action objectives in the fields of local management, consultancy and research.
- To detect and manage the influence of technological changes on online services, social media, communication and marketing of public services, that allows to make the best use of them in local management.

- To be able to interact with the citizens in a bidirectional manner, through the electronic administration, and to generate effective, transparent and ethical communication.
- To know the fundamental role that people play within an organization as subjects of knowledge in order to achieve excellence.
- To acquire the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for the exercise of a professional activity of high level, for the design and management of participatory strategic plans, programmes, projects and services related to the management and innovation in urban spaces.
- To acquire the ability to locate, select and evaluate information, statistical, documentary and bibliographic sources of usefulness, interest and application to the field of innovative local public management.
- Ability to design, analyze, and evaluate innovative policies, projects and programmes for the promotion of an efficient and citizen-oriented government and public administration.
- To know and apply the empirical research methodology and design on social sciences as well as its main qualitative and quantitative techniques.
- To acquire theoretical and applied knowledge of research techniques and diagnosis tools in order to elaborate studies and records of a scientific, technical and consultancy character in the field of Local Administration and democratic innovation.
- Ability to design and implement innovative social policies, promoting the social economy, the defense of the environment and gender equality in the framework of 2030 Agenda.
- To know the main paradigms and theoretical approaches both classical and current, as well as the new techniques of public administration and management under an interdisciplinary approach.
- To know the administrative procedures for public contracting and financial and budgetary management of local finances.
- To administer and manage teams of people, and to solve conflicts as a means to reach agreements, following the instruments provided by the specialized literature.

- Written and spoken communication.
- Organization and planification.
- Critical reasoning capacity.
- Autonomous learning.
- Ability to work in interdisciplinary groups.
- Sensitivity to social and environmental problems.
- Creativity and innovative capacity.
- Competence in searching and managing information and data.
- Commitment to quality, rigor, responsibility and honesty in the development of work and its results.
- Ability for self-directed learning and autonomous work in the field of social sciences.