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 AVDA. DE LOS CASTROS, S/N , 39005 SANTANDER
Date of ANECA Assessment Report:
1/1/1900
Discipline:
Engineering and Architecture
Participating universities:
Academic, scientific and professional interest justification
Information about the propio structure: New Senior Programme
Basic competences
Students are able to integrate and apply their knowledge and improve the skills that are usually used in the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within each of the different areas of study.
Students expand their ability to collect and interpret relevant data in order to make judgments that include reflection on important social, scientific or ethical issues.
Students improve their ability to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
Students acquire the skills that will allow them to continue learning autonomously in the future.
General competences
Ability to search for, organize and manage information.
Communication skills for the transmission and dissemination of information, ideas, problems and solutions orally and in writing.
Ability to develop an autonomous work system both individually and in teams.
Ability for discussion, critical and creative reasoning, and the formation of one's own opinion.
Ability to approach and solve academic and professional problems.
Ability to use Information and Communication Technologies (office tools, multimedia presentations, scientific software, Internet, etc.) as a means to carry out and complete the tasks necessary in academic activity and in daily life.
Ability to organize and plan academic and professional work.
Ability to abstract, analyse, synthesize and solve problems.
Capacity for criticism and self-criticism.
Ability to work individually and in a team.
Motivation for quality.
Ethical sense and commitment
Self-motivation and adaptation to the environment.
Guidance towards quality and an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.
Commitment to the principle of equal opportunities between men and women and accessibility for people with disabilities.
Awareness of and commitment to democratic and environmental values and the culture of peace.
Acquire the basic skills to communicate verbally and in writing in languages other than Spanish.
Specific competences
(Interpret) Ability to interpret the role of agents and institutions in economic and social activity from both a national and international perspective.
(Ability to use computer techniques to process data and calculations and use software). Students will be able to use Information and Communication Techniques as a tool for understanding and communication, as a means of archiving data and documents, as a means of communicating information, and for learning and research.
(Understand the socio-territorial environment). Students must be able to obtain, manage and synthesize relevant data and information in order to understand the environment around them.
(Negotiate and reconcile) Conflict management, negotiation and cooperation. It consists of the ability to manage solutions inherent to the emergence of conflicts using various techniques of negotiation and cooperation.
(Formulate models). Ability to understand models that allow an interpretation of the functioning of society and the determination of the level of production, employment, the general price level, as well as equilibrium prices in different market structures.
(Diagnosr the social situation) Ability to diagnose and assess the current social situation. In the same way, the student will be able to assess its evolution.
(Critical awareness of the relationship between current events and processes and the past). Students will be able to identify and recognize the processes of continuity and change spread throughout great historical periods in order to better understand the present and will be able to distinguish historical roots, precedents and/or analogies of current events and processes.
(Ability to organize information in a coherent way and transmit it in narrative form according to the critical canons of each discipline). Students will be able to deal with problems rigorously either from scientific-academic sources, literature or statistics. Likewise, they will be able to carry out a basic critique of texts.
