Bachelor's degree in Global Studies Academic year 2024-2025New study The new bachelor's degree Global Studies has to forge new and new professional specialists who can contribute to explaining and solve the challenges and collaborate in its design and transformation.
The education of people who have to live and work in an increasingly interconnected and changing world has to be cross-disciplinary, open and flexible, so that they can help explain and solve the challenges that arise and turn them into possibilities. The Bachelor's Degree Global Studies is shown like a transdisciplinary education for students of all the world which they want to work from an international look. In a context of structural changes, we need specialists with a global outlook who can accompany political decisions and analyse the role of increasingly interconnected citizens. The challenges that represent the climatic change, the increase of the migrations or the shortage of resources, the political and economic programmes implemented in a local scale, national or regional, as well as the determining role of the technology and the use of the information to communicate these phenomena, they exemplify the complexity of the present. The bachelor's degree Global Studies, of recent implementation and with an innovative methodology, the estudiantat will enable for the critical analysis and the elaboration of proposals, the advice and the solution of problems related with global environments.
Access requirements Upper secondary school education Access: university entrance examinations (PAU), general stage. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in the university entrance examinations (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Social and Legal Sciences. Higher level training cycles (CFGS). Access: all CFGS. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in the university entrance examinations (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Social and Legal Sciences. Over 25 years old Preferential option in successful entrance exam: social and legal sciences. Over 45 years old Entrance exam passed and favourable interview outcome. Others Special types of access recognised under current regulations. Another information on access Pre-enrolment code: Pending Weightings Weighting parameters of the subjects in the specific phase of the PAU
Professions of advice, of management and consulting firm of problems in the area of governments and intergovernmental institutions, among many other ones. The future prospects for students of Global Studies are very promising. With an education in global studies, the students develop an extensive and deep understanding of the current world, including social, political, economic and environmental questions there.
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Students have to gain a series of credits, as part of their studies, which correspond to internships in companies or institutions relating to the bachelor’s degree they are studying. The teaching load is determined in accordance with the curriculum. Regulations for external academic practicals
To obtain the degree, students have to complete a bachelor's thesis (TFG) which serves to assess the general skills they have acquired over the course of the degree programme and offers a summary of the skills and knowledge they have acquired. The teaching load of the thesis depends on the curriculum of the degree. Bachelor's-thesis governing framework regulations
Students can complete part of their degree programme abroad through the Erasmus programme, which enables them to carry on their studies whilst undertaking an international exchange with academic value in a European university. They also have access to grants for placements at universities in Spain and on other continents, thanks to bilateral agreements, the SICUE programme and the expansion of the Erasmus+ Programme. Full information on mobility
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