Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for professional activities.
- CB1. That students have demonstrated that they possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education and is usually at a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of their field of study.
- CB2. That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
- CB3. That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature
- CB4. That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences
- CB5. That students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy
- CG1. Develop independent learning skills (analytic skills, synthesis, holistic vision, and applicability).
- CG2. Acquire general communication skills (ability to understand and express yourself orally and in writing, in Spanish and in a
- second language, mastery of specialized language and development of strategies for searching, using and integrating information).
- CG3. Apply documentary, statistical, computer, and multimedia techniques (ability to develop documentary search strategies, as well as statistical skills and the use of new technologies).
- CG4. Develop personal development and responsibility skills (organization, decision-making, and adaptation to new situations).
- CG5. Develop teamwork (ability to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project, even in interdisciplinary, multicultural, and international teams).
- CG6. Apply the principles of ethical codes (critical and self-critical capacity/ability to demonstrate attitudes consistent with ethical codes)
- CG7. Seek creative and entrepreneurial solutions to new situations or problems (ability to formulate, design, and manage projects/ability to seek and integrate new knowledge and attitudes).
- CG8. Interact with cultures, populations, and groups different from one's own without ethnocentric prejudices, enabling conflict resolution (ability to relate from a diversity perspective, addressing mediated and peaceful conflict resolution).
- CG9. Recognize the complexity of social phenomena (ability to analyze social phenomena using criteria, taking into account the interaction of global and local processes in specific situations, identifying causal links and key actors in each situation).
- CG10. Analyze cultural diversity (ability to apply critical reasoning to different local contexts and those of different regional areas of the world, defining their particularities, identities, and the interrelations between different cultural aspects)
- CE1. Know the main theories relating to the meanings of the concept of culture.
- CE2. Know the diverse systems of cultural adaptation to the environment.
- CE3. Understand the cross-cultural variability of economic systems and the anthropological theories surrounding them.
- CE4. Understand cultural constructs relating to sex, gender, and sexuality.
- CE5. Be able to analyze the transformations and evolution of contemporary societies and their social and political movements.
- CE6. Be able to design public policies aimed at addressing social problems and evaluate implemented projects, such as sociocultural intervention or development cooperation.
- CE7. Be able to design and develop anthropological research projects.
- CE8. Be able to identify and measure the basic factors of inequality and social vulnerability, as well as cultural differences and conflict processes.
- CE9. Be able to assess the effects of applying expert models of social intervention to the target groups.
- CE10. Be able to diagnose and mediate in situations of intercultural conflict.
- CE11. Be able to produce informative or museum material related to cultural diversity.
- CE12. Be able to implement projects and develop practical interventions in the field of cultural heritage management.
- CE13. Understand the cultural sector in order to identify possible cultural promotion and management actions.
- CE14. Understand the different theories that explain the history, development, and transformations of human societies.
- CE15. Understand the methodology of Social Anthropology and its basic and advanced (quantitative and qualitative) social research techniques, with special emphasis on fieldwork techniques (ethnographic descriptions, participant observation, oral interviews, etc.).
- CE16. Be able to convey the concepts, problems, and perspectives of Social Anthropology to both lay and expert audiences.
- CE17. Understand the epistemological and methodological debates in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
- CE18. Be able to apply theoretical and methodological reflexivity to avoid ethnocentrism in analysis models.
- CE19. Be able to analyze ethnographic specificities and develop conceptual abstraction in comparative processes.