IDEA - Maestría en Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo -PMAD-

Master's Program with Professional Emphasis -PMAD-

Objectives of the Master's Program with Professional Emphasis

Training competent professionals from different disciplines, who are social and environmentally responsible.
Providing the students with tools to enhance their knowledge of the ecosystem-culture interrelationships.
Contributing to the knowledge, protection and conservation of the natural and cultural patrimony of the country, through the training in planning, management and environmental assessment processes at different scales.
Preparing professionals, managers and environmental policy decision-making stakeholders, in order to generate multiplier effects, which have an impact on the decisions taken for a better management of the environment, in both the public and private domains.

Syllabus PROFESSIONAL EMPHASIS

Type of Subjects	Credits
Compulsory Subjects Academic Activities Final Project Final Project Proposal Professional Seminar I Professional Seminar II Other Subjects	46 10 3 3 3 23
Eligible Subjects	12
Total	54

Agreement 113 of 2016 – Academic Council

Research Process

Research Seminar 1 --- Semester 1
Thesis Project --- Semester 2 (*)
Research Seminar 2 ---Semester 3
Thesis --- Semester 4

* The approval of the Thesis Project is given by the student's
Tutor and must be formalized in the end of the second semester.

Eligible Subjects of the Professional Emphasis and Research Eligible Subjects

Code	Name of the Subject	Credits	Semester of the year
2026165	Approaches, methods and techniques applied to environmental studies	4	Second
2026022	*Ecosystems and Society	3	Second
2019503	Environment and Development I	4	Second
2019510	Culture, Environment and Society	4	First
2019514	Ecology and Environment	4	First
2019517	Economy and Environment	4	First

Eligible Subjects

2019516 – Ecological Economics
2019529 – Economic Assessment of Goods and Services
2019519 – Environmental Impact Studies
2025140 – Environment and Mining: a necessary debate
2019502- Agriculture, Environment and Society
2026167 - Environmental Topics: in-depth Studies
2019521- Environmental Management

2019506 – Biodiversity and Conservation
2019518 - Environmental Education

2019523 – Urban Environmental Management

Graduate Profile – Professional Emphasis

The graduates of this emphasis will have the capacity to deal with the environmental issues from an ethic, interdisciplinary, holistic and systemic approach, based on the comprehension of culture, science, varied types of knowledge and technology, in order to propose sustainable solutions from a social and environmental perspective.

These graduates will have the abilities to:
- Design, apply and evaluate environmental policies, plans and programs through the application of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and tools.
- Work in interdisciplinary teams with an analytical, critical and proactive attitude.
- Lead the identification and solution of environmental-related problems, aiming for sustainability.