Course outline

Acquired skills

These are the main competences for which this degree will qualify you:

• G1. Acquiring and understanding basic terminology and knowledge of anthropological, legal, psychological and sociological matters concerned with criminal behaviour and with social and institutional systems for preventing and counteracting such behaviour and of how to treat victims, with full capability for systematising , critically analysing, interlinking, integrating and summarising the know-how acquired. Doing this in a manner consistent with the fundamental rights of equality and non-discrimination and that fosters a culture of peace.
• G2. An ability properly to apply the knowledge and techniques acquired in the course of the degree studies in actual interventions involving juvenile and adult delinquents and victims, based on an analysis and assessment of criminological situations, with a view to recognising and implementing good practices in matters of the prevention and handling of delinquency and in the drawing up, designing and management of projects.
• G3. An ability to work individually and in groups in attempting systematically to locate significant information based on the observation of real life and/or the proper use of documentary information sources and information obtained by the use of new information technologies. And ability also to understand and interpret the data and information obtained, to link same with the relevant theories and integrated into interdisciplinary team work.
• G4. And ability to set out arguments and proposals in a suitable, orderly fashion based on data and information obtained, to convey same orally and in writing (also using multimedia tools and the Internet), appreciating the importance of gender equality and the culture of conflict solution.
• G5. Acquiring learning skills that enable them to manage their own learning processes on a continuous, self-directed basis in such continued training as may be necessary and in successfully tackling subsequent, specialist studies.