Competencies

The Bachelor's Degree in Social Work is designed to prepare professionals for a broad understanding of social structures and processes, social change, and human behavior. All of this is achieved with the ultimate goal of contributing, together with other professionals, to the social integration of individuals, families, groups, and communities, as well as the creation of a cohesive society, the development of quality of life, social well-being, and a culture of peace. This translates into the following objectives:

• Help people strengthen their capabilities to solve individual and collective social problems.
• Work to protect people, especially those who are unable to do so for themselves.
• Contribute to active citizenship by strengthening and guaranteeing human and social rights.
• Promote the incorporation of socially excluded, vulnerable, and at-risk groups into full citizenship.
• Working with individuals and organizations to generate changes in structural conditions, promoting equal opportunities among groups, between men and women, through the application of human rights values and a culture of peace.
• Mobilize and empower individuals, groups, and communities to increase their assertiveness skills and strategies for addressing their problems.
• Raise awareness among people so they can participate and commit to promoting the social well-being of their communities.
• Work on preventing social problems and eliminating situations of vulnerability and risk.
• Promote mediation, gender and disability equality, respect, and intercultural dialogue as a means of mutual enrichment for individuals and communities.
• Contribute to the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of social policies and social initiatives that generate equal opportunities for all citizens.

Individuals who obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work must possess the following basic, general and specific competencies:

• 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.

• CG1. Ability to analyze and synthesize
• CG2. Organization and planning skills
• CG3. Oral and written communication in Spanish
• CG4. Knowledge of the English language
• CG5. Computer knowledge related to the field of study
• CG6. Information management capacity
• CG7. Problem solving
• CG8. Decision-making
• CG9. Teamwork
• CG10. Interdisciplinary teamwork
• CG11. Working in an international context
• CG12. Interpersonal relationship skills
• CG13. Recognition of diversity and multiculturalism
• CG14. Critical reasoning
• CG15. Ethical Commitment
• CG16. Autonomous learning
• CG17. Adaptation to new situations
• CG18. Creativity
• CG19. Leadership
• CG20. Knowledge of other cultures and customs
• CG21. Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
• CG22. Motivation for quality
• CG23. Sensitivity to environmental issues

• CE1. Establish professional relationships to identify the most appropriate form of intervention.
• CE2. Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to help them make informed decisions about their needs, circumstances, risks, preferred options, and resources.
• CE3. Assess needs and possible options to guide an intervention strategy.
• CE4. Respond to crisis situations by assessing the urgency of the situation, planning and developing actions to address them, and reviewing their results.
• CE5. Interact with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to achieve change, promote its development, and improve living conditions through the use of social work methods and models, regularly monitoring the changes that occur in preparation for the completion of the intervention.
• CE6. Prepare, produce, implement, and evaluate intervention plans with target audiences, colleagues, and other professionals, negotiating the provision of services to be used and reviewing the effectiveness of intervention plans with stakeholders in order to adapt them to changing needs and circumstances.
• CE7. Support the development of networks to address needs and work toward planned outcomes by exploring with individuals the support networks they can access and develop.
• CE8. Promote the growth, development, and independence of individuals by identifying opportunities to form and create groups, using programming and group dynamics for individual growth and strengthening interpersonal skills. 
• CE9. Work with behaviors that pose a risk to people, identifying and evaluating the situations and circumstances that shape such behavior and developing strategies to modify them.
• CE10. Analyze and systematize information provided by daily work to support the review and improvement of professional strategies that must respond to emerging social situations.
• CE11. Use mediation as an intervention strategy for alternative conflict resolution.
• CE12. Design, implement, and evaluate social intervention projects.
• CE13. Defend individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities and act on their behalf if the situation requires it.
• CE14. Prepare and participate in decision-making meetings to better defend the interests of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
• CE15. Establish and act to resolve risk situations after identifying and defining their nature.
• CE16. Establish, minimize, and manage risk to oneself and colleagues by planning, reviewing, and monitoring actions to limit stress and risk.
• CE17. Manage and be responsible for their own work by assigning priorities, fulfilling professional obligations, and evaluating the effectiveness of their own work program.
• CE18. Contribute to the administration of resources and services by collaborating with the procedures involved in obtaining them, monitoring their effectiveness, and ensuring their quality.
• CE19. Manage, present, and share social stories and reports, keeping them complete, accurate, accessible, and up-to-date as a guarantee for professional decision-making and assessments.
• CE20. Work effectively within interdisciplinary and multi-organizational systems, networks, and teams to collaborate on establishing goals, objectives, and timescales, while also helping to constructively address any disagreements.
• CE21. Manage and direct social welfare entities.
• CE22. Research, analyze, evaluate, and utilize current knowledge of social work best practices to review and update one's own knowledge of social work frameworks.
• CE23. Work within agreed standards for the practice of social work and ensure your own professional development, using professional assertiveness to justify your own decisions, reflecting critically on them, and using supervision as a means of responding to professional development needs.
• CE24. Manage complex conflicts, dilemmas, and ethical problems by identifying them, designing strategies to overcome them, and reflecting on their outcomes.
• CE25. Contribute to the promotion of best practices in social work by participating in the development and analysis of implemented policies.
• CE26. Understand the fundamentals of human behavior, the different stages of the life cycle, and the influence that the interaction between biological, psychological, sociostructural, and cultural factors has on its configuration and development.
• CE27. Understand social structures, processes of social change, and the effects that social inequalities have on people's development.
• CE28. Understand the differential elements such as ethnicity, culture, gender, and their influence on situations of discrimination, oppression, and vulnerability, materialized in the differential access to resources of individuals, groups, and communities.
• CE29. Understand the fundamentals of Civil, Family, Labor, Social Security, and Administrative Law, and the legislative systems existing in these areas.
• CE30. Know and understand the historical process of social reform, the origins and development of the Welfare State, and its consequences for equal opportunities.
• CE31. You are able to assess the consequences and implications that different orientations in Social Policy have for Social Work, as well as the contributions of Social Work to the design, development, and evaluation of social policies.
• CE32. Acquire the ability to understand spoken English; understand texts written in English; and express oneself orally and in writing in English.
• CE33. Have basic skills in economic management, as well as in creating organizations and forms of self-employment.