Competences

• Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
• Analysing the behaviour of the political actors, both individually and collectively (parties, interest groups, social movements, etc.).
• Analysing the electoral processes, including campaigns, parties' electoral strategies, political scenarios and analysis and interpretation of electoral results.
• Arguing from different theoretical perspectives.
• Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
• Demonstrating good writing skills in different contexts.
• Demonstrating the comprehension of citizen behaviour and democratic values, particularly in internal or international concrete cases.
• Designing data collection techniques, coordinating the information processing and meticulously applying hypothesis verification methods.
• Develop critical thought and reasoning and be able to communicate them effectively, both in your own language and second or third languages.
• Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
• Explaining political, individual and collective attitudes and behaviours, as well as the education process and expression of political preferences.
• Identifying and distinguishing the functioning of the electoral processes.
• Identifying main actors of the political system, inspecting their interactions and assessing their behaviour in their environment and in the political system from a theoretical and practical perspective.
• Identifying sources of data and conducting bibliographic and documentary searches.
• Interpreting and applying English texts in an academic way.
• Make changes to the methods and processes of the area of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and wishes of society.
• Managing the available time in order to accomplish the established objectives and fulfil the intended task.
• Managing the different theoretical contributions about actors and actor's networks, as well as the characteristics of collective action.
• Realising effective oral presentations that are suited to the audience.
• Showing a good capacity for transmitting information, distinguishing key messages for their different recipients.
• Synthesizing and critically analysing information.
• Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
• Using the main information and documentation techniques (ICT) as an essential tool for the analysis.
• Working autonomously.
• Working by using quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in order to apply them to research processes.
• Working in teams and networking, particularly in interdisciplinary conditions.