Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics - UAB/UPF/UAM/UC3M

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Apply a knowledge of the main theories and approaches worked on in the degree, arguing from distinct perspectives and supporting such arguments through methodologies of analysis, paradigms and concepts pertaining to the Social Sciences.
• Interrelate the distinct theories that intervene in the disciplines within the degree and the ideas (legal, political, economic, sociological) that explain the organisation of contemporary societies.
• Analyse contemporary diversity taking into account the distinct disciplines in the degree through identifying problems, data collection and analysis, and interpreting results.
• Design programmes in distinct disciplines aimed at social improvement, taking into account national and international political actors, the relationships that they establish with political institutions, and the socioeconomic environment of the times.
• Evaluate political and socio-economic programmes aimed at improving living conditions in society, taking into account the design, viability and sustainability of the programme.
• Raise and solve problems of an economic and social content using mathematical models and econometric modelling programmes, as well as interpreting the solution and evaluating the conclusions obtained.
• Express opinions that include an ethical reflection on fundamental social, scientific and economic issues in a context that is representative of both international and local society.
• Evaluate improvement programmes in the management and quality of public or private services and institutions, analysing the benefit and performance that these have produced in local and international environments.
• Carry out case studies and apply a comparative method for analysing the institutions, processes and policies in distinct countries, assessing international policy scenarios.
• Identify and analyse the classical texts of political and sociological philosophical thought with an adequate explanation and interpretation of unresolved issues and problems in contemporary societies.

Transversal skills

• Formulate critical and well-argued reasoning, using precise terminology, specialised resources and documentation for this purpose that supports such arguments.
• Communicate the content of each discipline effectively in distinct languages.
• Debate global and specific phenomena, relating the concepts and knowledge pertaining to distinct disciplines after analysing diverse ideological, theoretical and regulatory positions.
• From a globalised and cosmopolitan perspective, demonstrate an understanding of the implications of new ideological, political, economic and technological forms that are prevalent in the contemporary world.
• Recognise diversity and multiculturalism through work in an interdisciplinary team