The academic offer of the University of Cantabria is mostly taught in Spanish. For specific
courses taught in English, please refer to the catalogue of
courses taught in English.
Due to the implementation of the new degree plans,
check the information through
this link. Exchange students can choose subjects that are active in both the new and the old study plan.
You can check the
language requirements of the University of Cantabria
here.
Type of University:
Public center
Address:
AVENIDA DE LOS CASTROS 56 , 39005 SANTANDER
Date of ANECA Assessment Report:
7/19/2010
Discipline:
Law and Social Sciences
Participating universities:
Academic, scientific and professional interest justification
General competences
Critical and creative reasoning. Students will be able to make their own assessment from a systematic reflection on the foundations supporting the ideas, opinions and actions, and on the consequences of their own actions and those of others. They will also be able to systematically develop original approaches when undertaking academic and professional tasks and projects.
Capacity for abstraction, analysis, synthesis and problem solving. Students will use concepts to identify, describe and define complex realities and know how to distinguish parts from a whole until they discover their significant principles and establish relationships with elements external to the situation in question in order to propose a solution in an effective manner.
Capacity for organising and managing information. Students will be able to effectively determine the aims, priorities, methods and controls to carry out tasks by planning activities with the time and means at their disposal, and will know how to structure, collect, process and obtain results from given information.
Teamwork and decision-making. Students will integrate and collaborate actively with other persons, areas and organisations in the pursuit of common goals, thus promoting trust, cordiality, a balanced distribution of tasks, and cohesion within the group, at the same time assuming responsibility for the scope of the consequences of the chosen option.
Use of new technologies (ICTs). Students will use ICTs as a tool to access sources of information, as a means of managing information, and for tasks involving the presentation of results.
Knowledge of foreign languages. Students will be able to communicate both orally and in writing.
Specific competences
Acquisition of the perception of the unitary nature of the legal system and of the interdisciplinary view required by legal problems.
Capacity to use constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the interpretation of the legal system.
Capacity for management of sources of the law (legal, jurisprudential and doctrinal).
Development of legal oratory. Capacity for appropriate expression for speaking in public.
Capacity to read and interpret legal texts.
Capacity to draw up written legal texts.
Command of computer techniques to obtain legal information (data bases on legislation, jurisprudence, bibliography).
Acquisition of a critical conscience in the analysis of the legal system and development of legal dialectics.
Acquisition of the values and principles characteristic of the deontology of the legal profession.
Capacity for negotiation and conciliation in the area of personal and social conflicts of a legal nature.
Basic knowledge of legal argumentation.
Capacity for norm creation and structuring.
Understanding and knowledge of the main public and private institutions involved in their genesis and as a whole.
Understanding the different forms of creating the Law in its historical evolution and its current state.
