Access requirementsAnyone who has an official Spanish university degree, or a degree issued by an EHEA higher education institution that empowers in the country that issued the degree to access official Master's degrees. Likewise, students with an approved foreign qualification (external to the EESS) may also take this master's degree, or without homologation provided that the level of training is equivalent to the undergraduate degrees and that it empowers in the issuing country to access official Master's degrees.
This Master's degree is aimed at graduates in social sciences, among which the legal sciences will be considered preferably, according to the assessment made by the Master's Management Committee. In addition to the accreditation of the required degree, candidates must present a curriculum vitae and a letter of motivation in which the academic objectives of the applicant are based, as well as the relevant background for their application.Professional outingsThe fundamental objective of this degree is to provide specific legal training to graduates in law and other social sciences for the most appropriate future or current exercise of various professions related to social services and with intervention on vulnerable people and groups , as well as for the design, implementation and leadership of research projects and processes in the field of protection and guardianship of those, all from an eminently socio-legal perspective. It is about equipping graduates in law and other social sciences with specific professional skills, linked to specific legal knowledge, that allow them to carry out current or future jobs related to the defense and guarantee of the rights of vulnerable individuals and groups , and with the design, coordination, management or application of the various public policies and private action strategies regarding the legal protection of those.
Since the Master's practices are developed both in public administration departments (Ministry of Social Welfare, Prosecutor's Office for minors and gender violence, Juvenile court, gender violence and prison surveillance, Lawyer for the Elderly, Center for Minors de Sograndio), as well as in private and non-profit entities (law firms, Gypsy Secretariat, Prison and Society, FASAD, ASPAYM, AFESA, ONCE, Doctors of the World, Red Cross, Caritas, International Amnesty and ACCEM), in addition to the possibility of attending public employment calls with more specific training; the master's degree encourages the postgraduate to be linked to the private entities in which they have carried out their internships, all within their possibilities.