Competencies

Sociology undergraduate programs aim to train professionals capable of developing the theoretical and empirical foundations that enable scientific understanding of societies and their well-being. This involves fostering and developing the capacity to explain the social world around us and contributing to the improvement of the social model.

From this perspective, the overall objective of the Sociology degree is to instill explanatory frameworks for how our complex societies function in the information age, while also fostering the search for operational proposals for social intervention.

Among the specific objectives, a distinction can be made between those objectives more closely related to theoretical knowledge and those more closely linked to applied or practical knowledge.

The specific objectives related to theoretical knowledge are:

• Become familiar with the main theories of human society and social dynamics, focusing on the main sociological schools and perspectives.
• Develop an analysis of the evolution, change, and transformations of contemporary societies, detecting potential emerging trends.
• To enhance knowledge about the structure and specific functioning of social organizations and the dynamics of their social actors in different areas of action.
• At the end of the training process, students will be required to demonstrate that they possess, understand, and generate knowledge in the area of sociology based on general secondary education and that encompass a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of this field of study.

To ensure that students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

The specific objectives most closely linked to practical knowledge will be:

• Develop the skills necessary to apply the acquired sociological knowledge and concepts in practical social practice.
• To enhance the capacity to design social research projects and the explanatory analysis of specific social phenomena.
• Provides training in searching for and managing secondary sources, producing and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, using and interpreting social indicators and social measurement tools, and mastering software applications for social research.
• To train students to convey information, ideas, problems, and solutions from the Sociology field to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.

• CB1 – Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education and is typically 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 – Students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are typically demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
• CB3 – Students should have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific, or ethical issues.
• CB4. Students will be able to convey 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.

• CG.1 Ability to analyze, synthesize, critique, combine global/local visions and apply knowledge to practice.
• CG.2 Communicative ability (ability to understand and express oneself orally and in writing, in Spanish and in a second language, mastering the specialized language as well as the ability to search, use and integrate information).
• CG.3 Ability to use documentary and information management techniques, statistics, computer science and multimedia necessary for learning and professional practice.
• CG.4 Ability to organize, make decisions and adapt to new situations.
• CG.5 Teamwork (interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project/ability to collaborate in interdisciplinary, multicultural and international teams).
• CG.6 Ethical commitment (critical and self-critical capacity/capacity to show attitudes consistent with ethical codes).
• CG.7 Creative capacity (for problem solving and adaptation to new situations) and entrepreneurial capacity (capacity to formulate, design and manage projects/capacity to search for and integrate new knowledge and attitudes), in the context of a motivation for quality.
• CG.8 Ability to relate to cultures, populations and groups different from one's own without ethnocentric prejudices, thus facilitating conflict resolution.
• CG.9 Ability to recognize the complexity of social phenomena and the interaction of global and local processes in specific situations, identifying causal links and key actors in each situation.
• CG.10 Ability to grasp the cultural diversity of local contexts and of the various regional areas of the world, defining their particularities, identities and interrelations between the different cultural aspects.

• CE.1 Knowledge and skills to propose and develop applied research in different areas of society.
• CE.2 Learning of statistical concepts and techniques applied to human society.
• CE.3 Skills in developing, using and interpreting social indicators and social measurement instruments.
• CE.4 Skills for the development of human resources in organizations.
• CE.5 Knowledge and skills in transmitting sociological concepts, problems and perspectives.
• CE.6 Technical knowledge and skills for the production and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
• CE.7 Skills in the development of organizations (consulting, designing and managing organizations and institutions).
• CE.8 Knowledge and mastery of the methodology of social sciences and their basic and advanced techniques (quantitative and qualitative) of social research, with special attention to the aspects of sampling, application software and fieldwork.
• CE.9 Know how to choose the social research techniques (quantitative and qualitative) relevant at all times.
• CE.10 Abilities to identify the basic components and measure factors of inequality and social vulnerability, cultural differences and conflict processes.
• CE.11 Knowledge and skills in searching for secondary information in different sources (official institutions, libraries, Internet, etc.)
• CE.12 Ability to analyze the main concepts and generalizations about human society and its processes
• CE.13 Ability to analyze the transformations and evolution of contemporary societies and their social and political movements
• CE.14 Capacities to contribute to the design of public policies aimed at addressing social problems
• CE.15 Capacities in establishing, programming and executing social intervention projects
• CE.16 Capacities in evaluating public policy and social intervention projects, as well as their results
• CE.17 Skills in the implementation and management of social services
• CE.18 Skills in management and organization of people and social networks that participate in collective projects
• CE.19 Skills to manage and mediate in crisis situations and social conflicts
• CE.20 Skills for the evaluation and implementation of quality and satisfaction studies
• CE.21 Abilities to adapt objectives to economic, temporal and human resources