Service-Learning

This subject aims to enable students to understand the specific characteristics of NGO financial reports; evaluate the liquidity of companies in the specific case of NGOs; learn to assess the ability of NGOs to meet their long-term obligations; examine the purpose and usefulness of measuring returns in the specific case of NGOs; diagnose the financial and economic performance of an NGO; and make recommendations.

This subject aims to enable students to integrate the understanding of subjects studied previously into a real-life project for a third-sector entity, implement it and obtain results. In this subject, students work in teams directly the entities, enabling them to understand that a market-oriented approach is applicable to any type of exchange activity.

This subject aims to enable students to integrate the social dimensions of marketing by using an in-house map featuring all the aspects of marketing that are positive for society; to practice the different realms of marketing that have a social dimension, e.g. marketing with purpose in consumer spending, co-operation between companies and NGOs; to apply marketing concepts to sectors such as art; and to produce a real-life marketing plan.

This subject aims to enable students to experience an innovative process, understand the organizational and axiological levers of innovation, help create invaluable solutions for a challenge involving innovation; and help develop creativity processes.

This subject aims to enable students to motivate and lead teams by means of workshops for secondary-school pupils. The aim is for students to develop robust capabilities and skills in speaking and communicating in public.

The aim of this subject is to help students improve their social engagement in areas related to social and/or environmental sustainability; understand complex, systemic problems; develop a critical awareness and a non-conformist, investigative mindset; help them break down stereotypes and avoid prejudice; and develop social and interpersonal skills.

In this subject, students will create solutions for real-life problems faced by NGOs. The main aim is to enable students to analyze and manage problems; understand the reality of complex organizations such as NGOs operating with opposing goals (e.g., financial sustainability and maximum impact); and understand the problems that all organizations face when incorporating sustainability into their strategies. During this very hands-on subject, students will conduct research to acquire skills that they then apply to a real-life project.

Students taking this subject will work at an NGO and then be asked to reflect upon about their experience in order to learn about leadership in third-sector organizations. They will develop leadership skills related to the design, implementation and evaluation of environmental and social projects. Students will develop an intercultural dialogue with specific persons; acquire skills related to the promotion of a project or scheme in the framework of an NGO; and learn to launch a campaign to raise awareness about a social challenge in a community or society in general.

Broadly speaking, this subject aims to enable students to understand and begin to develop what we call ethnographic sensitivity, in the sense of the ability to listen, participate, testify and reflect in both theory and practice. Students learn to pay attention to become more aware of inequalities, understand better the forces in society that cause suffering and how people can in a way find hope, and, in general, learn to move beyond the boundaries of what is taken for granted.

The aim of this subject is to enable students to acquire a broad understanding of the history of economic and political thought and emerging theories about the economic process and learn to link them to social challenges such as environmental deterioration and inequality in income or gender. Upon completion, students should be able to express the main arguments of the authors under study and critically assess their validity and contribution to solving today’s socioeconomic and ecological challenges on the basis of empirical data.

The aim of this subject is to convey to students that sustainability means both responsibility and opportunity; to give them a clear idea of the main problem facing humanity, i.e., climate change, and its best solution, i.e., the circular economy; to introduce them to the ethical factors involved in sustainability whilst clarifying the most important principles of action to protect life on the planet.

The main aim of this subject is to introduce students to thinking outside the box and handling complex social challenges. Instead of thinking directly about a possible solution, students will be encouraged to research, assess and reflect upon the different players, relationships, resources and processes that together constitute the system underlying this challenge to society.

Students will develop leadership skills in order to design and implement a literacy training scheme for persons at risk of social exclusion by means of basic tools and information and communication technology.