Specialised training to address the world's major challenges

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Comillas CIHS) has launched three new programmes aimed at training professionals to face three of the most important challenges of the present and the future: national and international security, integral heritage and ageing.

Addressing the challenge of international security

The Master's Degree in International Security Management is designed to manage today's changing and complex international reality, which demands a new approach in dealing with new security threats. Studying the Master's Degree in International Security Management will enable you to learn how to use the right tools to address security challenges, including military ones, but going beyond that to include the design of policies that can address climate change, energy sustainability, food security, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

"This master's degree provides the necessary training to be able to work in the management of both traditional and emerging security risks, as well as in the governance of cybersecurity in the public or private sector. The programme is differentiated by its vision focused on the professional world and practical teaching with consolidated experts in the field of security in its different aspects," says its director, Daniela Serban.

Integral heritage. A new concept

The faculty is also launching the Master's Degree in Integral Heritage. Culture, Identity, Innovation. A new and little explored programme in Spanish universities, which aims to highlight the value of tangible and intangible heritage and its relationship with nature and integral ecology.

The differentiating character of our proposal lies in the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage, which is replaced by that of integral heritage, which introduces the assessment of the natural environment and spirituality within culture and heritage identity, providing an innovative perspective.

"The master's degree is aimed at professionals who already work in the field of heritage or who wish to work in it (architects, teachers, professionals in the video game industry, creators of cultural content, etc.)," says its director, Henar Pizarro. "The interdisciplinary nature of the master's degree favours the humanistic training of the technologists and the technological training of the humanists, which favours the employability of these mixed profiles that are in such high demand in the labour market," she concludes.

Specialist in the social health sector

The Department of Sociology and Social Work of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Comillas CIHS) is going to begin to offer the Official Master's Degree in Social Work in the Health Sector, the first official master's degree in social work specialising in the health sector in a blended learning format.

The progressive specialisation of social work services in general, and in particular in the field of health, requires professionals to have increasingly specific knowledge. The aim of this master's degree is to provide social workers with specialised training that promotes a biopsychosocial approach to health, integrating health and social issues from a logic of direct intervention with citizens.

This is a "specialised training that is highly demanded by the professional sector and by social and healthcare organisations in which social workers work," says Daniel Gil, director of the master's degree.

"The socio-demographic evolution of the population, the complexity of social and health care and the clear need for a biopsychosocial and multidisciplinary approach in the attention to the population's health problems are leading to a progressive growth in the need for social workers in the health and social and healthcare sectors, and the specialised training offered by this master's degree is a gateway to a growing job market," says Gil.