• Students should apply acquired knowledge to solve problems in unfamiliar contexts within their field of study, including multidisciplinary scenarios.
  • Students should be able to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making informed judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • Students should communicate conclusions and underlying knowledge clearly and unambiguously to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
  • Students should demonstrate self-directed learning skills for continued academic growth.
  • Students should possess and understand foundational knowledge that enables original thinking and research in the field.
  • To explore and value the socio-economic implications of the field of specialization.
  • To develop critical thinking, identifying the limits and biases of knowledge in the field of specialization.
  • To combine theoretical contents with their practical application and appreciate the importance of both fundamental and applied knowledge.
  • To achieve an integrative knowledge, drawing general conclusions from specific case studies, transferring conclusions to other speciality areas and establishing connections between different subjects.
  • To understand natural processes relevant to the field of specialization.
  • Place the specialty in the context of other fields and general knowledge.
  • To develop communication skills and use a language appropriate to the profile of the interlocutor.
  • Learn how to work in multidisciplinary teams constituted byspecialists with heterogeneous backgrounds.
  • To communicate scientific results through the elaboration of reports, articles and oral presentations.
  • To analyze scientific evidence in an objective, quantitative and rigorous way, through deductive and constructive reasoning.
  • Approach the same virological process from different angles, such as mechanistic, evolutionary, biomedical and biotechnological.
  • To develop critical thinking about the social, economic, ethical or philosophical implications of a given knowledge in virology.
  • To develop creative thinking aimed at the search for new applications in virology.
  • Learn how to formulate hypotheses and scientific models related to virology, as well as to design, execute and analyze experiments aimed at contrasting these hypotheses.
  • To master different methods in virology, their scope of application, their advantages and disadvantages and their complementarity for problem solving, both from a theoretical and practical point of view.
  • To understand the main features that define fundamental and translational research in viruses, as well as the most important communities and institutions in the field of virology (journals, societies, congresses, schools, research centers, etc.) and their functioning (peer review, etc.).
  • To apply fundamental virology concepts to practical problem solving, including antiviral therapy, prevention, public health, and the biotechnological applications of viruses.
  • To analyze viral diseases from complementary approaches taking into account the structural characteristics of a virus, the target organs, the progression of the infection and the symptomatology.
  • To know major human viruses and the pathologies they cause, as well as the biomedical or epidemiological interventions would be the most appropriate for their treatment and control.
  • To identify relevant factors in viral infection processes beyond the virus itself and its host, such as co-infections, the composition of the microbiome and others, and to understand how they condition the outcome of a viral infection.
  • To understand the molecular, cellular and systemic processes that constitute the host response to a viral infection, in order to correctly interpret observations such as infection symptoms, viral infection cycles, and viral evolution.
  • To identify common patterns shown by virus-host interactions in different systems (animal, plant, bacterial).
  • To understand the population dynamics of viruses and their evolution, as well as to establish associations between virology and different ecological concepts, such as biodiversity, ecosystem characteristics, or climate change.
  • Know how to differentiate viruses according to fundamental features such as structure, host range, infectious cycle, symptoms, pathogenesis or mode of transmission and apply the most appropriate theoretical and experimental analysis tools.
  • Achieve a broad and integrated knowledge of virology that encompasses human, animal, plant and prokaryotic viruses, to identify molecular processes shared by large groups of viruses, and to transfer concepts and techniques from one viral system to another.