Master in Social Policies and Community Intervention

2025/2026 · 120 credits

Generic skills

- CG1: Understand and integrate complex knowledge to translate it into research proposals and intervention programmes in problematic social contexts.

- CG2: Formulate a critical analysis of the social reality and professional development linked to the social events on which they work.

- CG3: Design, apply and evaluate research projects in social sciences related to processes and situations of social exclusion.

- CG4: Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary research teams and professionals working in the main areas of social exclusion.

- CG5: Prepare and defend reports, projects and reports in the field of social sciences.

- CG6: Assess the adequacy of the different theoretical, methodological and technical tools for the specific questions and objectives presented on social reality and social policies.

- CG7: Provide innovative and original responses to emerging problematic situations related to social exclusion.

- CG8: Apply the comparative perspective in the understanding of social problems and political responses and solutions.

- CG9: Apply an interdisciplinary perspective in the analysis and assessment of problems of exclusion and social policies of inclusion and cohesion.

- CG10: Recognize and value the value judgments and evidence in the arguments that support descriptions and policies about social reality.

Specific skills

- CE1: Determine the appropriate dimensions and categories for the diagnosis and scientific analysis of situations of social exclusion.

- CE2: Interpret social facts and policies from the different theoretical paradigms in force for the analysis of exclusion.

- CE3: Design and develop observation and documentation processes for the study of social welfare policies and systems.

- CE4: Request and interpret sufficient information to arrive at reliable diagnoses on the risks of exclusion and factors of social vulnerability.

- CE5: Interpret the situations and processes of social and economic marginalisation of groups from a historical and macro-structural perspective.

- CE6: Evaluate the capacity and effectiveness of intervention measures to correct or prevent situations and processes of social exclusion.

- CE7: Identify and assess the possibility of intervention and prevention in processes of social conflict. - CE8: Identify processes and factors of social cohesion, and design of measures to enhance them.

Transversal skills

- CG1: Understand and integrate complex knowledge to translate it into research proposals and intervention programmes in problematic social contexts.

- CG2: Formulate a critical analysis of the social reality and professional development linked to the social events on which they work.

- CG3: Design, apply and evaluate research projects in social sciences related to processes and situations of social exclusion.

- CG4: Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary research teams and professionals working in the main areas of social exclusion.

- CG5: Prepare and defend reports, projects and reports in the field of social sciences.

- CG6: Assess the adequacy of the different theoretical, methodological and technical tools for the specific questions and objectives presented on social reality and social policies.

- CG7: Provide innovative and original responses to emerging problematic situations related to social exclusion.

- CG8: Apply the comparative perspective in the understanding of social problems and political responses and solutions.

- CG9: Apply an interdisciplinary perspective in the analysis and assessment of problems of exclusion and social policies of inclusion and cohesion.

- CG10: Recognize and value the value judgments and evidence in the arguments that support descriptions and policies about social reality.

Professional and academic career

The master's degree has a double vocation: specialized training in the academic-scientific field of students who want to pursue an academic career, and researcher-professionals in the field of social policies and processes of social exclusion and inequality - mainly Public Administrations and the Third Sector - so as to respond to the social need for university specialists with a solid training for research in this field.

Professional and academic career

The master's degree has a double vocation: specialized training in the academic-scientific field of students who want to pursue an academic career, and researcher-professionals in the field of social policies and processes of social exclusion and inequality - mainly Public Administrations and the Third Sector - so as to respond to the social need for university specialists with a solid training for research in this field.

Planning for teaching

The teaching modality may be face-to-face or virtual.

This degree has a teaching guide

Master's degree studies are organised by modules: 3 modules:

- Theoretical module (TCO.);

- Methodological Module (MET.) and

- TFM and external internship module (PRACT.).

There are two types of subjects:

- Compulsory (OB.)

- Electives (OP.)

In addition, there are three specialties:

- Optional module on International Migration (speciality 1);

- Optional module on Gender and Equality Policies (speciality 2);

- Optional module on Longevity, Quality of Life and Intergenerational Relationships (speciality 3).

This study has teaching guide
You can read it to learn more about the study. In the table below you can see the individual teaching guides for each subject.

Study structure

The masters are organized by modules. Click on a module for more information.

  Guide Type QTR. credits
Compulsory First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
  Guide Type QTR. credits
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 3.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 4.500000000 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 3.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 3.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS
Work Placement Second Quadmester 12.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 3.0 ECTS
Compulsory Second Quadmester 3.0 ECTS
Master's Dissertation Second Quadmester 12.0 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 4.500000000 ECTS
Elective First Quadmester 6.0 ECTS

 BOE with syllabus (PDF)

Teachers

The study is taught by the following teachers:

The masters are organized by modules. Click on a module for more information.

Student mobility

UDC holds student mobility agreements with universities and other third-level institutions across four continents. Students are offered several opportunities each year to apply to study abroad in one of these centres (for a single term or for a whole year), with the guarantee that all credits obtained will be duly recognised in their academic record upon their return.

For each round of applications, the University publishes the list of exchange options available to students and, where relevant, the specific conditions associated with each. Students may also apply to the University for funding for international work experience placements and internships.

Work experience placements are accredited in the student's academic record and the European diploma supplement. Students are free to decide in which host company or academic institution within the EHEA they wish to carry out their placement. To assist them in their search, the University has created an online noticeboard with jobs postings and other news.

Work-study placements in A Coruña are arranged by the International Relations Office (ORI) of the UDC in collaboration with the international relations coordinators in the student’s home university. The general entry criteria, rights and obligations of students, and admission and acceptance procedures for the programme, are regulated by the UDC Mobility Policy.