Degree in Geography and the Environment

  • Students must have acquired knowledge and understanding in a specific field of study, on the basis of general secondary education and at a level that includes mainly knowledge drawn from advanced textbooks, but also some cutting-edge knowledge in their field of study.
  • Students must be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have acquired the competences required for the preparation and defence of arguments and for problem solving in their field of study.
  • Students must have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually in their field of study) to make judgements that take relevant social, scientific or ethical issues into consideration.
  • Students must be able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both expert and lay audiences.
  • Students must have developed the learning skills needed to undertake further study with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Have capacity for analysis and synthesis.
  • Have skills for organisation, planning, management and assessment.
  • Have oral and written communication skills in one's own language and in a foreign language.
  • Have computer skills related to the field of study.
  • Have problem-solving skills and decision-making capacity. Be able to design and manage projects.
  • Be able to work independently.
  • Be able to work in interdisciplinary teams.
  • Have skills for interpersonal relations and ability to adapt to complex situation.
  • Show commitment to the values of gender equality, interculturality, equal opportunities, universal access for people with disabilities, the culture of peace, democratic values and solidarity.
  • Be able to learn independently and show creativity, initiative and entrepreneurship. Be able to resolve unforeseen situations.
  • Show motivation for quality, responsibility and intellectual honesty.
  • Be able to produce statistical information. Know how to use statistical software.
  • Have research skills.
  • Be able to communicate effectively with non-experts.
  • Be able to detect needs and situations that require the professional's intervention.
  • Be able to identify useful resources that allow the intervention to be carried out.
  • Know how to apply and implement the intervention.
  • Acquire suitable professional skills.
  • Know how to manage the different relationships with the client.
  • Develop skills to cooperate with other professionals.
  • Experience the routine and less attractive aspects of the profession.
  • Become aware of the ethical component and deontological principles of professional practice.
  • Learn about geographical history and thinking.
  • Learn about regional geographical spaces.
  • Learn about human, economic and social geography.
  • Learn about physical geography.
  • Learn about land-use planning.
  • Learn about geographic information systems.
  • Learn about methodology and fieldwork.
  • Get acquainted with geographic information systems as a tool for learning about and interpreting the territory and the environment.
  • Learn about the time and space dimensions in the explanation of social, territorial and environmental processes.
  • Be able to relate and synthesise cross-disciplinary territorial information.
  • Learn about territorial and environmental management. Be able to integrate the social, economic and environmental components under the sustainable development approach.
  • Participate in the design and implementation of environmental policies, as well as in the evaluation of the environmental impact of projects, plans and programmes.
  • Acquire basic knowledge for analysing and interpreting environmental risks and for participating in risk prevention plans.
  • Learn about rural and urban development programmes based on environmental sustainability.
  • Acquire basic knowledge for analysing and diagnosing public policies related to the geographical aspects of the environment.
  • Be able to use cartography and geographic information systems.
  • Be able to relate the natural environment and the social and human spheres.
  • Learn about the diversity of places, regions and locations and their relationships.
  • Analyse and value landscapes from a spatial-temporal perspective.
  • Learn basic techniques for fieldwork in geography and particularly for reading and interpreting the landscape in geographic terms.
  • Be acquainted with the legal framework applied to the environment and land-use planning.
  • Be acquainted with basic economic principles applied to the environment.
  • Show motivation for quality.
  • Demonstrate organisational and planning skills.
  • Have critical and self-critical capacity.
  • Be able to make abstractions, to analyse and to synthesise.
  • Value and respect diversity and multiculturalism.
  • Be able to learn independently.
  • Show critical awareness of the relationship between current events and processes and the past.
  • Have critical knowledge of the different historiographic perspectives in the different periods and contexts.
  • Have detailed knowledge of one or more specific periods of humanity's past.
  • Be able to communicate and argue orally and in writing in one's own language using the terminology and techniques of the profession.
  • Know national history.
  • Know European history.
  • Know universal or world history.
  • Be familiar with and be able to use methods and techniques from other social and human sciences.
  • Be familiar with the methods and issues of the different branches of historical research: economic, social, political, cultural, gender-related, etc.
  • Develop an analytical and critical spirit to understand the work of art, interpret the language of its forms, appreciate its aesthetic values, identify its physical and technical components, and extract information about the culture that has generated it.
  • Know the formal, technical and cultural components of different artistic languages, over time and in different spaces, in order to appreciate the conditions that affect the final result of the work and the way it is received.
  • Understand the basic concepts of art history theory.
  • Be able to interpret floor plans and elevations of buildings.
  • Be able to interpret artistic works based on iconographic analysis.
  • Be able to design a teaching project for secondary education.
  • Be able to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired to teaching in secondary education.