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Offer of subjects for academic year 2018-2019

University master's degree in Youth and Society (IU)

Youth studies and policies30.00 credits

Name of the subject and description Type Credits Group Duration

La joventut en l'era de la globalitzacióLa juventud en la era de la globalizaciónYouth in the age of globalization  (3501MO2706)

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.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Polítiques i programes de joventutPolíticas y programas de juventudPolicies and programs for youth  (3501MO2708)

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.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Joventut i ComunicacióJuventud y ComunicaciónYouth and Communication  (3501MO2711)

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.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Joventut i transicionsJuventud y transicionesYouth and transitions  (3501MO3093)

Theoretical and methodological approaches to youth.Studies and research on geographical areas in the EU, Spain and Catalonia.Theoretical frameworks of youth sociology.The concept and foundations of the different theoretical frameworks.Youth and the transitions Methods, approaches, models and main instruments in research about the pathways of the youth population.The epistemological and methodological foundations of youth research.The biographical approach of the training, occupational and economic and family emancipation pathways for young people.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Joventut, educació, lleure i participacióJuventud, educación, tiempo libre y participaciónYouth, education, leisure and participation  (3501MO3094)

Hermeneutics of educational actions with young people.Detailed and reasoned understanding of the limits, possibilities and problems specific to the main educational areas that work with young people: formal educational system; sociocultural animation and education in leisure, adult education, specialist social education.Political and educational theories about social and institutional participation.Taxonomies on the types, forms and levels of participation: simple, consultative, projective and metaparticipation.Advanced education in methods and techniques to promote and optimise participation in youth educational institutions.Youth participation at a local level.Associations and young people.Description and analysis of good youth participation practices.Research in education and participation in the field of young people.Participative research.Socio-educational innovation and young people.Learning serves as an example of an essentially participative educational methodology.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Joventut, consums, espai públic i esportsJuventud, consumos, espacio público y deportesYouth, consumption, public space and sports  (3501MO3095)

Social and cultural health determinants: advanced knowledge of the specialised concept of "health processes/illness/attention" and its paradigmatic alternatives; in addition to reports from the WHO about "Social health determinants"; to be applied subsequently, and in both cases, to youths.Young population and health: deep scientific knowledge of its structural and dynamic aspects, both from a specialist theoretical and empirical perspective, focussing, in the latter case, on Catalonia, Spain and Europe.Sport, public space and youth identities: Knowledge of the multidisciplinary discussions in terms of the concept of lifestyle and its relationship with sport and the public space of young people.Analysis of the articulations between practice and discourse in the relationships between young people and public spaces through leisure and sport.Presentation of different cases and methodologies adapted to intervene in these circumstances.

 OBCompulsory 5.00 A Aannual

Analysis and socio-educational action with youths15.00 credits

Name of the subject and description Type Credits Group Duration

Joventut i territoriJuventud y territorioYouth and terrtory  (3501MO2713)

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.

 OBCompulsory 3.00 A Aannual

Eines i recursos per a l'acció amb jovesHerramientas y recursos para la acción con jóvenes Tools and resources for youth work  (3501MO2714)

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.

 OBCompulsory 3.00 A Aannual

Pràctiques externesPrácticas externasFieldwork practices  (3501MO2715)

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.

 OBCompulsory 6.00 A Aannual

Eines i recursos per a la recerca amb jovesHerramientas y recursos para la investigación con jóvenesTools and resources for research with young people  (3501MO3096)

Status of research in the design, evaluation and development of the youth policies and innovations in youth studies.The approaches of research in youth and youth policies.Research approaches, resources, strategies and instruments.

 OBCompulsory 3.00 A Aannual

Training Complements in Youth and Society5.00 credits

Name of the subject and description Type Credits Group Duration

Societat de la informació i del coneixementSociedad de la información y del conocimientoInformation society and knowledge society  (3501MO2716)

The origins of today's society.Characteristics and differences of today’s society and its predecessors.The influence of social changes on the concept of society and in research.From modernity to current modernity.Post-modernity.The impact of current modernity on scientific knowledge.The construction of knowledge and scientific knowledge.From classical epistemology to post-modern epistemology.The contributions of the constructionism.Complex thought.The impact of epistemology on research.The construction of theories.The role of theories in research.From metatheory to theory: proposals and discussions.

 OPoptional 5.00 A Aannual

Dones i espaisMujeres y espaciosWomen and spaces  (3501MO2717)

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.

 OPoptional 5.00 A Aannual

Comunicació i interculturalitatComunicación e interculturalidadComunication and interculturality  (3501MO2718)

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.

 OPoptional 5.00 A Aannual

Substàncies, malestars, subjectes i gestió de riscosSustancias, malestares, sujetos y gestión de riesgosSubstances, discomfort, subjects and risk management  (3501MO2719)

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.

 OPoptional 5.00 A Aannual

Metodologia d'investigació en inclusió educativaMetodología de investigación en inclusión educativaResearch methodology in inclusive education  (3501MO2849)

• Current research approaches and its role in the improvement of inclusive education.• Computer resources and updating quantitative techniques of data analysis.o Factorial Confirmatory Analysis and causal models with AMOS o Models of Correspondences Analysis with R. • The quality of information collection instruments.Validity and reliability.Creation and processes for validating information collection instruments.• Ethnographic design, case study and biographical-narrative design.• Update of methods and qualitative data analysis techniques.Units of analysis, coding and categorisation.Interpretation process.Computer programmes supporting qualitative analysis: Nvivo, Atlas-ti.

 OPoptional 3.00 B Aannual

Transició a l'edat adulta i vida activa com a via per a la inclusió socialTransición a la edad adulta y vida activa como vía para la inclusión socialTransition to adulthood and working life as a way to social inclusion  (3501MO2853)

• The transition process to adult and active life.Relationships and discrepancies between the scenarios, programmes and transition devices.• Planning improvement actions for the transition process to adult life.Leadership, distribution of roles and inter-service and inter-professional coordination.Strategies and resources to support the construction of personal life projects in the community: emancipation, work inclusion and community participation.Curricular approaches, family participation processes and community agents.

 OPoptional 3.00 B Aannual

Educació emocionalEducación emocionalEmotional Education  (3501MO3057)

Foundations of emotional education, emotional competences Organisation and planning of emotional education Sequence, applications and resources for emotional education Personal and professional development

 OPoptional 6.00 A 2second semester

Educació en valorsEducación en valores Values-based Education  (3501MO3058)

Theories about education on moral and in values.Main debates in terms of education in values.Concepts of moral education as a construction: intelligence and moral culture, relational dynamisms and moral practices.

 OPoptional 6.00 A 2second semester

Metodologia i tècniques de recerca socialMetodología y técnicas de investigación socialSocial Research Methods and Techniques  (3501MO3097)

Research design.Qualitative analysis.Quantitative analysis.

 OPoptional 5.00 A 2second semester

Metodologia avançada de recercaMetodología avanzada de investigaciónResearch Advanced Methods  (3501MO3098)

Multivariable analysis of statistical data.Advanced qualitative analysis.Analysis of social networks.Computational social simulation.

 OPoptional 5.00 A 2second semester

Cibercultura i comunicacióCibercultura y comunicaciónCyberculture and communication  (3501MO3101)

Cyber culture and Communication is a thematic subject that seeks to identify and analyse the cultural processes resulting from the diffusion of digital communication technologies and the expansion of the information networks.The subject is structured around the deployment of historical, cultural, semeiotic, technological and communication analysis strategies applied to the cyber cultural phenomena.The subject will cover an extensive spectre of cyber cultural phenomena, from transformations in the method of representation to archive culture, passing through virtual realities, the evolution of digital interfaces and new hypertextual and hypermedial narrative structures.In addition, based on the conception of the cyborg, the transformation capacity of human nature through the projection of a second technological-communication nature presented by cybernetics, the subject will revise the different forms and exceptions that binomial cyber culture and communication have proposed in a historical way to delve deep into its current meanings.

 OPoptional 5.00 A 2second semester

Mètodes d'investigació quantitativa i experimental en comunicacióMétodos de investigación cuantitativa y experimental en comunicaciónQuantitative Research and Experimental Methods in Communication  (3501MO3102)

The objective of the course is to introduce students to the methods and tools of quantitative research that allow them to carry out research and statistical analyses in the field of communication.The course is structured primarily around the proposal of relevant research questions for quantitative research, the definition of variables, the application of suitable statistical methods and the interpretation of results.A second objective of the course is to introduce students to SPSS statistical software.

 OPoptional 5.00 A 2second semester

Interseccions contemporànies entre cinema, televisió i còmicIntersecciones contemporáneas entre cine, televisión y cómicContemporary intersections between cinema, television and comics  (3501MO3103)

Cinema, comics or television series are not only a reflection of social and cultural changes, but they also are one of the engines of these transformations.Based always on a concrete approach to the films, comics, video games and television shows watched, the post-modern imagination of new audiovisual formats in relation to the expressive areas analysed will be explored.

 OPoptional 5.00 A 2second semester

Master's thesis10.00 credits

Name of the subject and description Type Credits Group Duration

Treball final de màsterTrabajo final de másterMaster thesis  (3501MO2722)

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.

 OBCompulsory 10.00 A Aannual

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