BASIC AND GENERAL COMPETENCES BASIC COMPETENCES
¿ CG1 Understand social, political, and economic realities at the international level from a comparative and institutional perspective.
¿ CG2 Capacity to manage information: identify, organize and analyze relevant information critically and systematically.
¿ CG3 Capacity to generate analytical and critical reasoning in the analysis of international and global phenomena, employing the advanced concepts and up-to-date methods of analysis used in contemporary Social Sciences.
¿ CG4 Capacity to apply scientific approaches to the analysis of economic, social and political questions pertinent to globalized society and markets; capacity to formulate problems and interpret data in this context.
¿ CB1- To acquire the knowledge about a specific area of study based on advanced textbooks and articles, as well as lectures and class discussions.
¿ CB2- To apply the knowledge acquired to future work and obtain the ability to generate ideas and defend positions related to this specific area of study.
¿ CB3- To have the capacity to collect and interpret relevant data within this specific area of study needed to formulate questions, generate critical thought on relevant socio-economic and political issue areas.
¿ CB4-To have the capacity to transmit information, ideas, and solutions both to specialized and non-specialized audiences.
¿ CB5- To have the capacity to have developed the learning skills required to undertake more advanced studies.
OVERLAPPING COMPETENCES
¿ CT1 Acquire the capacity to communicate knowledge in oral and written form, both to specialized and to non-specialized publics.
¿ CT2 Acquire the capacity to establish good interpersonal communication and to work both in interdisciplinary and international teams.
¿ CT3 Acquire the capacity to organize and plan workloads, taking correct decisions based on the available information, collecting and interpreting relevant data in order to provide assessments in that area of study.
¿ CT4 Develop the motivation and capacity to perform independent continuous learning for life, with an endowment to adapt to change and new situations.
SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
¿ CE1 Understand the major theories about the varieties of capitalism along with their applications on empirical phenomena.
¿ CE2 Understand and analyze the changes in political, social and economic processes at the global level and analyze their institutional impacts.
¿ CE3 Understand the structure of markets in different countries and the impact of state intervention on markets.
¿ CE4 Capacity to integrate the theoretical analysis with respect to the varieties of capitalism with the evolution, processes, structures, problems and challenges of the markets at the domestic and international levels.
¿ CE5- Understand the relevance of technological change for the changes in markets as well as varieties of capitalism in distinct countries.
¿ CE6 Ability to analyze the dynamics of globalization and their impact on changing institutins in distinct varieties of capitalism.
LEARNING RESULTS ·
¿ Knowledge of the essential characteristics of capitalism and its varieties as well as the institutional features shaping those varieties
¿ Capacity to analyze the principal components of the capitalist system in the context of globalization and the interaction (complementarity) between both relations with labour markets, collective bargaining, technology and innovation, human capital and skill formation, firms, organized actors (labor and businesses) and the changes in the welfare states.