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14 February 2017
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Teaching is concentrated in the faculties and schools, and the departments deal with research, which is also conducted by institutes and chairs, at the same time responsible for knowledge promotion.
Delving deeper into the concept of youths from a historical and transcultural perspective.Analysis of the concept of youth in the different scientific disciplines.Advanced knowledge of contemporary youth theories.The conditions of youths today: new forms of transitioning into adult life.Analysis of the globalisation and its impact on the life of young people.Review of current research about the conditions of youths.Advanced knowledge about youth movements and styles in the global era.
Sources of scientific and professional documentation and specialist resources for the design and application of youth policies.Advanced education in youth policies: Youth policies within the framework of public policies.Cross-disciplinary and sectoral perspectives.Evolution of theoretical discourse and of the current state of the youth practices and programmes in Catalonia, Spain and Europe.Advanced knowledge in the design and management of specialist youth plans and programmes.Multidisciplinary perspective in the cross-disciplinary work. Advanced knowledge in the evaluation of youth policies: scientific and methodological foundations of the specific assessment tools and approaches used.New approaches in working with young people: Analysis and discussion of innovative youth intervention experiences and programmes.
The image of young people and the construction of stereotypes in the media (information, fiction, advertising).The role of the media as a socialising agent, differences depending on age and gender.Fan fiction and fan culture.Media consumption and its meanings in the construction of young people’s identity.The new reality of digital identity.Topics about the audiovisual skills of young people.The cognitive and mobilising dimension of emotions: interferences between two cerebral circuits.Communication in social and educational work with young people.Analysis, design and assessment of educational communication proposals.The challenge of audiovisual or media education.Advanced contents in interpersonal communication with different groups.The new role of communication at institutions, companies and youth associations: Communication plan.Specialist criteria for successfully communicating with journalists and users.Analysis and creation of advanced contents using the tools of Web 3.0 and digital writing (hypertextuality, multimedia and interactiveness) applied to youth services.
Comparative analysis of national and international youth services and programmes.Critical analysis of youth devices and services: Needs and possibilities for the innovation and improvement of interventions involving young people.The profiles of youth professionals and inderdisciplinary work in the deployment of youth policies.National and international youth policies: structure, administrative organisation and services involved.Transversality in public policies and youth action from different national and international models.Characteristics specific to youth groups.
Advanced knowledge about youth groups and group dynamics.Formal and informal youth groups and the institutional and educational relationship with them.Detailed and founded understanding of theoretical and practical aspects and the work methodology in the educational relationship with youths and the bond between young people: Analysis and discussion of the main theoretical contributions and applied experiences.Enhancement of the dynamics for approaching, relating with and cohering with the juvenile groups.Spaces, canals and time of action with young people: national and international perspective.
Specialist exercise of professional placements at centres, projects or services linked to actions, the study of youths or youth policies.Critical analysis of the professional working environment with young people and the professional figures who intervene in it: multidisciplinary work when working with young people.Analysis of organisational models and action and innovation in work with young people and youth policies.Enhancement in working methods and sector organisation.Advanced knowledge of the institutions and specialist youth services (action and research).Social or ethical responsibility in response to orders and the solution of problems arising in each situation (professional ethics).Analysis of the professional insertion options in this sector.Attitudes in professional practice.Implementation and analysis of the tools and instruments of the profession.
Advanced education in geography and gender: theoretical and methodological approaches.Gender, space and daily life in rural areas: main subject areas of study and analysis in relation to socioeconomic activities.Gender, space and daily life in urban areas.Theoretical reflections about the city and gender.Gender and public spaces: new intervention perspectives.Gender and the environment.Gender, perception and environmental awareness.Ecofeminism: women and the environment.
Advanced knowledge about multiculturalism and interculturality as concepts and objects of research.Culture, emotion and expression: phenomena, objects of study and research.An intercultural approach to the study of the roles of gender and sex.Theory, practice and research.Ethnocentrism: Seeing and analysing the world from where we are.Interculturality.Differences and similarities as an object of study in fiction, advertising and information.Research on interculturality.Difficulties in the study of the interculturality in the media.Concepts, theories and the media.Theoretical approaches.Definition of identities.Operationalisation of the object of study.Research proposals.Reception as an intercultural practical and a strategy of analysis.
Drugs, a few basic concepts: Uses of drugs, drug addictions, functions of drugs, classifications.Substances, subjects and contexts.Social construction of "drug problems": Historical conditions generalisation of use.Basic perception and management models.Drugs associations - social exclusion.Social and political perceptions about drugs.Historical context and public policies: Perceptions, strategies, policies and programmes.Globalisation and drugs.From prohibitionism to Policies to Reduce Risks and Damage.Social conflict and drugs: towards new forms of social control'. Risks, damage, pleasures... what are we talking about?Between users and experts.Governability and drugs: the Management of Risks under discussion.Methodological aspects: Experiences from fieldwork involving drugs and young people.Intervention methodologies.
Deeper knowledge of advanced contents typical of youth and society based on an exhaustive bibliographical revision or scientifically justified experimental work.Formulation of hypotheses and objectives.Description of the methodology and tools to be applied.Application of the scientific method. Achievement of results.Appraisal of results.Elaboration of conclusions.Written presentation of the final work.Oral presentation and public defence of the work.The master's thesis (TFM) brings together the different skills obtained in other subjects on the master's degree and demonstrates the student’s capacity for creation, synthesis and communication.It must also guarantee sufficient autonomy to carry out research projects and scientific collaborations in interdisciplinary contexts and with a high knowledge transfer component.
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