Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies – (M.Sc.)

Providing students with scientifically sound training in studies on women and gender that are applicable to the problems of interest to our society, with the specific objective of preparing students to become professional equality agents.

Skills acquired
Specific skills

* Broad understanding of the history of women.
* Full understanding of the main theoretical schools of thought in feminist studies and genderstudies in the past and the present.
* Being familiar with the contributions made by different disciplines to the study of the socio-cultural configuration of gender and sexuality.
* Knowing what changes have been made to the paradigms of feminism and their causes.
* Applying the different theoretical models to the analysis of diverse, complex discourses (social, political, legal, philosophical, psychological, pedagogic, etc) from the perspective of gender.
* Drawing up proposals and plans for equality in an institutional context.
* Producing tools for combating sexual inequality.

Specialisation in Women, Work and Public Policies

* Analysing the relationships between women and educational practices, health practices and the economics of work and public policies.
* Applying the perspective of gender to all fields in projects and programmes for companies or in the public sector.
* Applying the perspective of gender to administrative and social tasks.

Specialisation in Theory, Criticism and Culture: Gender Perspectives

* Broad understanding of new proposals for representations of gender and sexuality in fields such as scientific discourse, educational practice, ethical-political practice, and the mass media, as well as their ideological bases.
* Confronting and resolving, in a creative manner, modern-day and complex questions regarding the study of culture and the modern world in a contemporary multicultural context.
* Developing one's own original contribution in the context of advanced research and professional application.

Cross-curricular skills

* Working in an interdisciplinary way in different environments.
* Critically reflecting upon one's own thoughts, decisions and actions.
* Working in a team and putting forward and defending proposals.
* Making creative and original contributions in different fields from the perspective of gender.
* Demonstrating an ethical commitment against inequality.
* Resolving intercultural mediation, especially regarding women's groups.
* Being capable of designing a project or plan of action that may be related to gender policies, in an independent manner, and implement it, facing up to the problems that may arise during the process for its implementation.