Department
of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy

Masters and Postgrade Courses

programme | Master in Immigration and Intercultural Education

FIRST YEAR (152 hours)

THEORIES And MODELS OF PERFORMANCE IN IMMIGRACIÓN AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

To obtaining of the Postdegree Diploma is necessary to assist to two thematic blocks: Immigration and Intercultural Education (152 hours)

MODULE 1: SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS

(thematic Block of Immigración): 40 hours

ECONOMY: The causes and economic manifestations of Immigration (10 hours)

  • Economy of Immigration: Challenges and advantages
  • Causes and economic manifestations of Immigration
  • Immigration in the context of the globalización

SOCIOLOGY: Structure and social dynamics of the migratory fact (12 hours)

  • Sociology of the Globalitzación
  • Sociology of the Immigración
  • Sociology of the Cultural Interchange

HUMAN RIGHTS: theory, institutions and problems of the human rights in relation to Immigration and the cultural diversity (12 hours)

  • The situation of the immigrant woman
  • The law before the diversity of behaviours and beliefs
  • The human rights and solidarity with the immigrants

INTERNATIONAL LAW: International legislation and jurisprudence on the migratory movements (6 hours)

  • The International Law before the problems of alien people
  • The international Jurisprudence on asylum - refugees

MODULE 2: ANTHROPOLOGY

Thematic block of Intercultural Education (36 hours).

PHILOSOPHY OF THE CULTURE: Concepts and basic values of the culture (8 hours)

  • The human communication
  • Theory of the person.

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The indispensable knowledge of the human nature and the evolution (4 hours)

  • All we shared the same ancestral one
  • From the common biological origin of humans to the cultural diversity

ETHNOLINGUISTICS: Relationship between language and culture (6 hours)

  • Ethnolinguistics.
  • Communication Ethnology

CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: The cultural determinations of psyche and the human mind (6 hours)

  • Human Pysche and culture.
  • Intercultural Psychology.

ETHNOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY of the MEDITERRANEAN WORLD (6 hours)

  • Present migrations in the Mediterranean
  • Mediterranean Towns: Africa
  • Mediterranean Towns: Europe

INTERCULTURALITY THEORY: Patterns, possibilities and limits of a dialogue between cultures. (6 hours)

  • Interculturality Sociology
  • Interculturality Theory

MODULE 3: APPLIED POLICIES

Thematic block of Immigration (40 hours)

ENTERPRISE POLICY: The new challenges and opportunities of the cultural diversity for the enterprise world (8 hours)

  • Situation of the working immigrants in commercial companies
  • Political economy of the Inmigración
  • Challenges and opportunities of the cultural diversity for the companies

CULTURAL POLICIES: The today effective experience and models, with special mention to the immigrant groups (12 hours)

  • Cultural policies
  • Models of the cultural policy
  • UNESCO and the cultural diversity
  • Cultural policies and immigration

INTERCULTURAL SOCIAL MEDIATION: Institutions and protocols for the resolution of conflicts in relation to immigration (16 hours)

  • Cultural justification of the mediation
  • Mediation and resolution of cultural conflicts
  • The dialogue between cultures
  • Present institutions and protocols for the intercultural mediation
  • Practices of intercultural mediation

MENTAL HEALTH: Psychopatology associated to the migratory phenomenon, with its processing and prevention (4 hours)

  • Mental problems related to the migratory fact
  • Ethics and health in immigration
  • Sanitary education and prevention

MODULE 4: THOUGHT OF THE DIVERSITY

Thematic block of Intercultural Education (36 hours)

POLITICAL SCIENCE: Theories of the democracy and justice with application to a globalized context and cultural diversity (12 hours)

  • The globalization of Democry
  • The democratic conceptions of Justice
  • The bases of the Democratic State
  • The Spanish Constitution and the policies of social inclusion

PEACE STUDIES: Reality and conflict theory and the present peace processes (8 hours)

  • Peace Theories
  • Peace like intercultural value
  • The present international conflicts
  • The present peace processes

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: The values and principles of the democratic citizenship and participation (8 hours)

  • The value of the public sphere
  • The political participation
  • Interculture and Civil Society
  • Multiculturalism

INFORMATION SOCIETY: Information Society Structures and their implication on the cultural diversity (8 hours)

  • Political implications of Information Society
  • Virtual Communities
  • Educative challenges of the technological innovation

SECOND YEAR (158 hours)

EXPERIENCE AND LEGISLATION IN IMMIGRACIÓN AND INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

For the obtaining the MASTER Degree is precise to assist also to two thematic blocks: Immigration and Intercultural Education (158 hours)

MODULE 5: LEGISLATION

Thematic block of Immigration (38 hours)

STRAIGHT: Present basic legislation on immigration (14 hours)

  • Law for aliens: Information and legal Discussion on norms and protocols
  • Norms and Protocols
  • Educative Regulation for Immigrants
  • Immigration, Refugees and Asylum

LABOR RELATIONS: The Immigrants in the laboral world (8 hours)

  • Attendance to the working immigrants
  • The immigrants in working relationships

IMMIGRATION POLICIES: The diverse existing models today (8 hours)

  • Experience and models of policies
  • Immigration policy in Spain

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION And ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT: The processing of immigration in these two scopes (8 hours)

  • Experience and governmental law
  • The enterprise experience with immigrants

MODULE 6: CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

Thematic block of Intercultural Education (38 hours)

SOCIAL And CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The understanding of the basic facts of the culture (16 hours)

  • Basic concepts of the Anthropology: culture and cultures
  • Economic anthropology
  • Anthropology of religion
  • Anthropology of kinship and sort

SCIENCES OF THE RELIGION: The indispensable knowledge of the religious diversity (10 hours)

  • Islam and Jewish Culture
  • Psychology of Religions
  • Islam: religion, politics and society

SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY: The geographic areas of the present migratory fact (6 hours)

  • Catalan geography of immigration
  • European geography of immigration

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: History of the modern migratory movements (6 hours)

  • The migratory fact in the modern world: the historical antecedents

MODULE 7: SOCIAL SERVICES

Thematic block of Immigration (46 hours)

TEACHING: Present models and experiences on immigration (18 hours)

  • Models of Intercultural Education
  • Diagnosis of the scholastic institutions in multicultural contexts
  • Educative needs of the teaching staff of Intercultural Education
  • Display and evaluation of some programs of Intercultural Education
  • Experiences of formation of immigrants for its sociolaboral integration

SOCIAL EDUCATION: The attention to immigrants from diverse areas of education and social welfare (12 hours)

  • Migration and Adolescence
  • Design of Projects in relation to immigration
  • Communitarian Development

MEDICINE And PUBLIC HEALTH: Immigration from the sanitary perspective (6 hours)

  • Labor Health
  • Project Design on immigration
  • International Health Care related to population movements

URBAN DESIGN AND HOUSING: The physical and social training conditions for the residence of immigrants (4 hours)

  • Housing contitions
  • Urban Design and the immigratory fact

DEVELOPMENT And NPO'S: Activities relative to immigration (6 hours)

  • Introduction to Cooperation and Development
  • The NPO's and international solidarity

MODULE 8: EDUCATION

Thematic block of Intercultural Education (36 hours).

ETHICS: Conditions and principles of an Intercultural Ethics (14 hours)

  • Problems of understanding between cultures
  • The necessity of common ethical values
  • Intercultural Ethics: conditions for a shared ethics
  • Intercultural Ethics: the basic principles
  • The ethics of the dialogue
  • The construction of the social consensus
  • Intercultural ethics and democratic citizenship

PEDAGOGÍA: The pedagogical models of integration for the school (8 hours)

  • Critical analysis of the effective multicultural educative models)
  • Present tendencies: From Intercultural Education to the construction of an intercultural citizenship

SCIENCES OF THE INFORMATION: The informative processings of immigration and the cultural diversity (8 hours)

  • Intercultural Communication
  • Journalistic processing of immigration

MULTILINGUAL EDUCATIO: Linguistic models and policies in the pluricultural society. (6 hours)

  • Diversity and linguistic interchange
  • Bilingualism and multilingual experience

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