Máster Universitario en Seguridad, Gestión de Crisis y Emergencias

The completion of a classic program typically entails earning 60 ECTS credits.

Master's Degree Duration: One academic year.

• 610501 Current Dimensions of Security
• 610502 Strategic Management of Human Resources. Leadership and Team Management
• 610503 New Information Technologies and Security
• 610504 Strategic Planning and Coordination of Preventive Security Devices
• 610505 Negotiation, Mediation, and Resolution of Social Conflicts
• 610506 Public Policies and Decision Making
• 610507 Institutional Legal Scope of the Security System in Spain
• 610508 Communication Management in Crisis and Emergency Situations
• 610509 Knowledge Management: Prospective Information and Intelligence
• 610510 Advanced Studies in Security
• 610511 Advanced Studies in Crisis and Emergencies
• 610512 Final Master's Project

On the one hand, in what refers generically to the expectations regarding the achievements and capacities related to the qualifications (results) that represent the end of each Bologna cycle, the results that Master students are expected to achieve are:

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding that builds on and exceeds and improves on the level typically associated with grades and that provides a foundation or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in the context of the investigation.
• Be able to apply their knowledge and understanding, as well as their skills, to solve problems in new or unfamiliar settings and in broad (multidisciplinary) contexts relative to their field of study. Acquire the ability to integrate knowledge and deal with complexity and also to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including the ability to formulate reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
• Be able to communicate your conclusions and the knowledge and conceptual framework on which they are based, both to expert and non-expert audiences, clearly and unambiguously.
• 4. Develop learning skills that allow them to continue their studies in a largely self-directed or autonomous way.

Regarding the competencies that the Master should provide, three generic ones stand out:

• The acquisition of knowledge and skills for exploring the dynamics that lead to crises and insecurity.
• The acquisition of knowledge and skills to manage the best responses to crises and to recognize failures in responses to such crises in order to avoid them in the future.
• The development of attitudes of respect for the system of rights and fundamental freedoms and of commitment to equal opportunities between men and women, with the principles of equal opportunities and universal accessibility for people with disabilities and with the values ​​of a culture of peace and democratic values.

Regarding the specific competencies:

• Provide knowledge of systemic analysis of the environment and understanding of the major social trends of our time.
• Provide knowledge and skills to understand the risks inherent in our society and their possible prevention.
• Provide the set of knowledge necessary to understand the complexity, diversity, and dynamic nature of the criminal act, deviant conduct, and threats to public and private security.
• Facilitate the knowledge and techniques that allow students to manage prospective information and intelligence, in order to make risk forecasts.
• Provide knowledge and skills to deal with the risks of today's societies. Specifically: have strategic attitudes and know the basic elements of strategic planning and the coordination of preventive security devices, know how to direct and manage crisis teams; know and respect the institutional legal scope of the security system in Spain, with special reference to democratic values;
• Convey the essential foundations of the public policy approach and decision-making models, with special reference to security policies.
• Provide knowledge and techniques on how to generate meaning and direction and how to assist in the correct termination of crises, with the consequent post-disaster management. Specifically, knowing how to manage communication in crisis and emergency situations; having the appropriate attitudes and the correct techniques for negotiation, mediation, and resolution of social conflicts).
• Train for the professional use of information and communication technologies in their different fields of action.
• Train for autonomous learning of new knowledge and techniques.

Finally, the transversal and basic competencies would be:

• Analysis and synthesis capacity
• Organizational and planning capacity
• oral and written communication abilities
• Ability to manage information
• Problem resolution
• Critical and self-critical capacity
• Work in an interdisciplinary team