Educational guide 2025_26
Facultade de Comunicación
Máster Universitario en Dirección pública y liderazgo institucional
 Training and Learning Results


Choose A Code Training and Learning Results
  A1 Possess and understand knowledge that provides a foundation or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
  A2 Students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
  A3 Students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  A4 Students know how to communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them, to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
  A5 Students have the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
Choose B Code Knowledge
  B1 Capacity to promote, in academic and professional contexts, the advancement of knowledge in the field of public management through original research.
  B2 Capacity to analyze, synthesize and integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments with limited information.
  B3 Capacity to reflect and critically analyze the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
  B4 Ability to retrieve and analyze information from various sources
  B5 Ability to apply knowledge acquired in a specific job or in a research process.
  B6 Ability to design, create, develop and undertake innovative projects in the field of public management and social sciences in general.
  B7 Capacity to generate new ideas (creativity) that allows the advancement of knowledge of public management.
  B8 Ability to solve problems in new or little known environments related to public management.
Choose C Code Skill
  C1 Know and apply the methodology and design of empirical research in the social sciences, as well as its main qualitative and quantitative techniques
  C2 Understand the fundamentals of information and documentation management for the development, preparation and defense of research in the field of social sciences
  C3 Know the fundamentals of ethics and transparency in public institutions
  C4 Know the problems associated with political practice in current democracies
  C5 Know the current state of studies in political science and administration
  C6 Know the functioning of the EU and its main policies
  C7 Know the main paradigms and theoretical approaches, both classic and current, on management and public management from an interdisciplinary perspective, in a systematic and in-depth way.
  C8 Know the current theories on leadership, fundamentally public
  C9 Provide, in the course of an investigation, a novel theoretical perspective to understand and explain a phenomenon in the field of public administration and management
  C10 Know the components and internal logic of each of the phases of public policies, exhaustively
  C11 Manage and direct teams of people following the instruments provided by the specialized literature
  C12 Know the theoretical sources and negotiation strategies as a means to reach agreements
  C13 Know the fundamental role that people play within an organization as subjects of knowledge to achieve excellence
Choose D Code Competences
  D1 Ability to understand the meaning and application of the gender perspective in the different fields of knowledge and in professional practice with the aim of achieving a more just and egalitarian society
  D2 Ability to communicate in Galician language
  D3 Sustainability and environmental commitment. Equitable, responsible and efficient use of resources
  D4 Ability to argue and defend ideas based on scientific criteria
  D5 Capacity for criticism and self-criticism
  D6 Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team
  D7 Ability to communicate with experts in the same field and other related fields, as well as with non-specialized audiences
  D8 Self-directed learning ability and autonomous work in the field of social sciences
  D9 Commitment to quality, rigor, responsibility and honesty in the development of the work as well as in its results
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