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Objectives and Competences

Objectives

 

This official master has adopted as its objectives for students to acquire specialized and multidisciplinary advanced academic training, oriented to professional specialization in Environment Education, and also to promote starting research tasks in this field. It is particularly intended to train professionals in Environment Education, both in preparation and application of Environment Education programs, and in basic aspects related to education research. All this from an ethic commitment to sustainability, from a trans-disciplinary perspective and focussed both on formal and non-formal education contexts.

In short, it is intended to:

1. Understand and accept the need for Environment Education, from a trans-disciplinary perspective, as an instrument for sustainability.
2. Analyze training models and strategies for education intervention.
3. Promote criteria and instruments for designing, developing, applying and evaluating environment education programs. Both in formal and non-formal contexts.
4. Offer basic training in innovation and research tasks in Environment Education.
5. Enable management and mobilization of human, environmental and material resources (documentary, textual, audiovisual and multimedia) for Environment Education.

For students who choose the research profile, this master degree also qualifies them for undertaking the research period for their doctoral thesis.

 

Competences

Competences are the set of interrelated knowledge, attitudes, values, abilities and skills, which can be identified and evaluated, and which enable the student to undertake the professional activity according to requirements and standards used in the appropriate occupational area.

All masters of the University of Almeria explicitly cover two types of competences:

• Generic Competences included in Royal Decree 1393/2007 of 29 October, establishing regulations for Official University Studies.
• Specific Competences of the degree. These competences are specified in the degree report, and are related to its own disciplines. Part of these competences may have been agreed at the regional level of Andalusia, or, in some degrees, they may have been decided nationally.

Competences are the set of interrelated knowledge, attitudes, values, abilities and skills, which can be identified and evaluated, and which enable the student to undertake the professional activity according to requirements and standards used in the appropriate occupational area.

All masters of the University of Almeria explicitly cover two types of competences:

• Generic Competences included in Royal Decree 1393/2007 of 29 October, establishing regulations for Official University Studies.
• Specific Competences of the degree. These competences are specified in the degree report, and are related to its own disciplines. Part of these competences may have been agreed at the regional level of Andalusia, or, in some degrees, they may have been decided nationally.

 

General Competences

• To acquire and understand knowledge: Students should prove to have acquired and understood knowledge beyond that acquired in the first cycle, which gives them and opportunity to be original in the development or application of ideas, often in the context of research.
• Application of knowledge: Students should know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their capacity for solving problems in new or nearly new environments within wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of studies.
• Capacity of judgement: Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of forming judgement from information which, although incomplete or limited, includes thought about the social and ethical responsibilities related to the application of their knowledge and judgement.
• Capacity to communicate and social ability: Students should be able to communicate their conclusions -and the knowledge and final reasons which sustain them- to specialized and non-specialized public in a clear and unambiguous way.
• Ability for learning: Students should possess the necessary learning abilities to allow them to continue cstudying in a mostly autonomous and self-directed way.

Specific competences

Specific competences of the degree are included in the degree report. Follow this link to access them:

Competencias Específicas (39 kb)