Constitutional Law Menéndez Pelayo International University

Overview

The academic program in Constitutional Law at the Menéndez Pelayo International University is the fruit of a combination of disciplines belonging to public law with important content unique to political sciences, thus allowing students to establish connections to analyze the different realities of contemporary democratic societies with different tools.

The Master's is designed as an advanced and specialized postgraduate study program which meets current society demands. This Constitutional Law program is adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and its course loads is measured in ECTS credits, which is the standard used by all universities in the EHEA to guarantee homogeneity and quality in university studies.

General Competences

• Integrate knowledge and face the complexity of forming judgments from limited or incomplete information which includes reflections on social or ethical responsibility tied to applying legal knowledge.

• Integrate structural principles of the democratic system in order to participate in the construction of a more egalitarian society which defends fundamental rights.

• Communicate conclusions and arguments which may or may not support specialized publics in a clear and unambiguous way.

• Adequately create written compositions or motivated arguments, write projects or scientific articles or form a reasonable hypothesis with certain originality.

• Learn to work in a team and assume the role of leadership in collective projects.

• Learn to design, plan and organize their own work, fostering initiative and entrepreneurial spirit.