58 Master Programs in Social Sciences in South America for 2024

Throughout this Master, students will be prepared to evaluate scenarios, discuss some of the most relevant themes of contemporary society, aiming to understand its main characteristics and the debates in vogue;

Located in the heart of a downtown campus, the Brazil Studio offers a bilingual program that allows an accelerated acculturation to the Portuguese language and the Brazilian context.

The master provides an academic and practical training aimed at understanding, managing, solving and anticipating problems and political-institutional, economic and strategic changes of public bodies and private companies linked to international relations, with a particular focus on Latin America and Europe.

Mente Argentina’s Master’s Degree Program in International Relations has been designed for students from all over the world who not only want to get their Master’s in International Relations, but also seek an extraordinary learning experience in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Our commitment is to the training of internationalists who are capable of understanding and contributing to the different global and transnational processes that shape the political, economic, and environmental realities of the country and its society. The particularity of this program is its articulation with the lines of research that are developed in the Area of ​​International Studies. This ensures that the contents are updated and framed in the main debates that take place in the specialized knowledge generation circuits in international studies. A program aimed at professionals and researchers that combines a solid theoretical background with practical tools for internationalists. Through exchange agreements, we offer the possibility of complementing training by taking subjects at leading universities abroad. Joining the Master in International Relations at UNSAM is a commitment to the future.

The Master in Development Economics (MED) conceives development from a multidimensional perspective, which is why it addresses topics ranging from the Economics of Education to Economic Growth, through the study of innovation, regional development, the environment, poverty, and inequality among many other aspects of economic, social and human development. Any process of economic growth and development requires the deployment of professional capacities, strictly linked to knowledge, which can be created and enhanced by the knowledge offered by a postgraduate program such as the Masters in Development Economics. More specifically, the policies to carry out this process and the quality of the links in the design-execution-evaluation chain of public policies depend crucially on the performance capacities and knowledge of rigorous techniques that allow optimizing the use of the resources they provide. they demand.

The master's degree is a training space oriented to the agendas of economic development, and its challenges, both at the national level and in its articulation with a regional agenda. It is proposed, in the macro of the multiplicity of existing approaches, to provide knowledge that allows knowing and contrasting different economic visions and debates in aspects such as the role of the state and its policy instruments, as well as the different productive, commercial, and financial strategies national and regional integration. It does so from a multidisciplinary approach and especially from a theoretical-practical nature, from delving into specific historical experiences and reflecting on their results. Within this framework, the following objectives are proposed: Contribute to the training of high-level resources with capacities to apply the theoretical and empirical knowledge acquired for the development of activities for the design, planning, management, and evaluation of policies, programs, and actions aimed at promoting economic development at the regional level. Provide methodologies, techniques, and tools of inquiry and quantitative and qualitative for the analysis of economic development processes in the region, through the performance of comparative studies, diagnoses, and evaluation of policies, programs, and projects. Consolidate an academic space for exchange and reflection on the challenges of economic development in the regional context that contributes to the postgraduate training of professionals prepared for the design of public policy strategies for development. To train in the knowledge of the main theories, concepts, and relationships necessary to understand and analyze the problems of economic development, from a historical and critical perspective.

The Master in Interculturality and Communication arises directly linked to the growing relevance that intercultural processes have acquired in our societies. The intercultural problem manifests itself through multiple intersections and articulations between global and local cultures. In Latin American societies these cultural processes acquire a high degree of complexity and have their own characteristics. This is exacerbated in the context of the relevance of communication processes that acquire a new dimension from the transformations generated by new technologies and the deepening of power disputes in the framework of the mass media. Consequently, a perspective that critically articulates both problems from a Latin American perspective appears necessary.

It tends to train professionals with solid theoretical and methodological training and critical capacity on the interaction of socio-economic and demographic processes and capable of intervening in decision-making, design, execution, and evaluation of policies. They are trained to work in interdisciplinary teams, which does not imply a mastery of multiple disciplines, but the flexibility to collaborate with other specialists in facing problems and in the fluid incorporation of demographic inputs in the social, economic, and political scenario. let it be examined.

The Specialization in Mediation is presented as a higher training process in which the participants, with the assistance of professionals, seek to strengthen their knowledge and tools to reach consensual agreements to the conflictive situations in which they arise. This alternative can avoid, or at least speed up, the judicial process by humanizing the conflict.

Aimed at university graduates of different science careers social, humanistic and health and/or graduates of higher university institutions and not university with a minimum training of four years, this career is dictated at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Social Work since 2011. It is currently being developed the fifth cohort. The specialization aims, from solid theoretical and practical training, to train graduates who are in a position to perform effectively in the design and conducting care and preventive interventions in the different areas that make up the field of family violence, that is gender violence, child abuse, child and adolescent sexual abuse, maltreatment in the elderly and disabled people. Its opening was and still is the response to a persistent demand for training from The professionals who work on the subject in the area of ​​assistance, justice, health, education, etc., taking into account the intensity and complexity that it presents in these days.

The Master in Political Science and Sociology is an interdisciplinary program whose objective is to train human resources capable of performing in the context with the highest professional competence. It is the oldest, traditional, and most recognized Master's Degree of FLACSO since its inception in Santiago de Chile, in 1957. It is taught at the FLACSO headquarters in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and 10 other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has a staff of first-rate professors who, for the most part, are fully dedicated to research and teaching in their respective fields of specialty. Objectives and recipients The purpose of the program is not to train homogeneous professionals but to open study alternatives to them as well as to provide conceptual instruments and practical tools so that graduates can perform competently in their respective fields of activity, without giving up the comparative advantages and the human capital accumulated through your undergraduate training and your previous professional experience. Our students, therefore, come from diverse disciplinary fields and develop a wide range of professional activities. The program is open both to young graduates who wish to deepen their training in politics and sociology, as well as to graduates with a started professional career who perceive the need to improve their skills to act in a more complex environment in their respective fields of activity. Since about a number of our students come from abroad, the diversity of disciplinary and professional backgrounds is combined with a multicultural environment, enriching the educational experience.

The person who graduated from the ESAP Human Rights Specialization program, faithful to Esapista principles, will become a professional characterized by their solid comprehensive quality training where the intellectual, scientific, cultural, ethical, and environmental converge.

The objectives of the Master in Government and Political Economy are to train human resources with: Solid multidisciplinary knowledge for their insertion in the different public and private areas of daily life that elaborate and execute the various tasks of analysis and management of political, social, and economic programs and projects. Specific skills and knowledge to function in institutions and organizations leading processes of cultural and organizational change. In addition, it seeks to promote: The dissemination of knowledge and experience on local and regional initiatives, in order to create a climate of exchange that contributes to the success of development projects in the region. Mixed public-private initiatives that include both universities, state agencies, political parties, and NGOs that contribute to improving the control, transparency, and efficiency of the management and administration of the State.

The Master in Conflict and Peace is a master in deepening. Its main objective is to delve into the multiple approaches, theories, concepts, and practices of both violent and non-violent social, political and cultural conflicts; as well as the various experiences of peacebuilding at the national and international level. Although the program is inspired by the Master of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford (England), it has focused on the Colombian context. In this way, it aims to critically explore and analyze the multiple dimensions and interpretations of the Colombian armed conflict and its various sub-conflicts. The Master offers a universal theoretical and philosophical look at the phenomenon of human conflicts and the various efforts to resolve them. It explores the main theories and meta-theories, through the analysis of the diverse, and sometimes contradictory, policies for peace implemented within the framework of the Colombian conflict and other global conflicts.