Master’s Degree in Cognition and Emotion in Educational Contexts

Competences

In the development of the training plan, the students can acquire a set of basic, general and specific competences.

Basic and General Competences:

In accordance with Royal Decree 43/2015 and Royal Decree 861/2010, which modifies Royal Decree 1393/2007, of October 29, which establishes the organization of the official university teaching, as well as the Royal Decree1027/2011, which establishes the Spanish Qualification Framework for Higher Education (MECES), the Master’s Degree teaching must guarantee the acquisition of the following basic competences:

• CB6 Possessing and understanding knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
• CB7 That the students know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their capacity to solve problems in new or little-known settings within the broadest (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
• CB8 That the students are capable of integrating knowledge and confronting the complexity of forming judgments from information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities related to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
• CB9 That the students know how to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them to specialized and non-specialized audiences clearly and without ambiguities.
• CB10 That the students possess the learning skills that permit them to continue studying in a way that must be self-directed or autonomous to a great degree.
• Furthermore, the students will have to reach the following general competences:
• CG1 To analyze and integrate the cognitive and neuropsychological processes involved in the learning process and their difficulties.
• CG2 To be capable of synthesizing and adapting the provided knowledge from neuroscience in order to offer responses adapted and based on the latest research on the subject.
• CG3 To be capable of evaluating and applying the knowledge acquired on the cognitive and emotional processes to the area of educational research.
• CG4 To design research with the objective of improving learning processes from a scientific viewpoint

Specific Competences that all students will acquire:

At the end of their studies, the students must have acquired the following Specific Competences:

• CE1 Analyze and evaluate the principal milestones of cerebral development and its influence on the teaching-learning process.
• CE2 Identify and define the relationships existing between cognitive processes and education.
• CE3 Contrast the scientific advances in neuroscience and to know how to incorporate them to research projects in order to improve educational practices.
• CE4 Discriminate, on an advanced level, the emotional process, and to analyze its basic characteristics and its involvement in learning.
• CE5 Be capable of analyzing the executive functions and their influence on learning.
• CE6 Assess different cognitive processes (attention, memory, perception and language) and identify possible difficulties in them.
• CE7 Be capable of evaluating and handling tools for the evaluation of different cognitive processes.
• CE8 Evaluate and design innovative pedagogical proposals based on scientific contributions on the development of the cognitive processes involved in them.
• CE9 Be capable of using different tools for educational research.
• CE10 Be capable of designing and implementing research to improve the teaching and learning processes.
• CE11 Apply the knowledge acquired in the Master’s Degree to carry out research work in the area of cognitive processes and emotion in educational contexts.

Dates and Times

The Master’s Degree will begin in October and will end in June. The zero week will take place from October 7 to 10 with the objective of presenting the program.

The lectures will begin on October 14, 2019 and will end on April 16, 2020. The in-person classes will be held from 16:00 to 20:00 hours, from Monday to Thursday.

At the end of the lecture period, students must prepare, deliver and defend their Final Research Project before a Tribunal.

Admission Criteria

Delivery of the documentation necessary for admission.
In general, the admission documentation will be presented in the Admissions Department. Students must provide the originals or certified copies of the documentation presented in the period established by the University for formalizing their enrollment. Inaccuracy, false information or omission of data in declarations or documents provided by the students in the admission period will determine the impossibility of continuing with the exercise of the right from the time in which the University has evidence of such facts, proceeding to the annulment of the presented application and the awarded place without prejudice of the criminal, civil or administrative responsibilities that may exist.

In order to access the official master’s degree, the following documentation must be delivered:

• Filled out Admission Application.
• Identifying document: Spanish I.D. card (D.N.I.) or valid passport.
• 2 passport-sized photographs.
• When it is necessary, a letter issued by the university in which the student has taken the level that leads to accessing the study of the Master’s Degree in the country issuing the diploma.
• Academic Certification with the grades of the studies that give access to the Master’s Degree.
• Official Spanish university degree.
• Official degree issued by a higher education institution belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) that authorizes, in the issuing country, access to the official master’s degree teaching.
• Official degree issued in a foreign education system not belonging to the EHEA. In this case, access will be conditioned on the verification that the studies taken correspond to an educational level equivalent to that of official Spanish university degrees and that qualify the student to access the studies of an official master’s degree in the country in which the degree was issued. This process does not involve, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree, or its recognition for another purpose that is not that of accessing the master’s degree studies.  
• Personalized letter of intention addressed to the office of the University Master’s Degree in Cognition and Emotion in Educational Contexts, in which they explain the reasons for which the student wants to undertake the studies of the Master’s Degree as well as the academic and professional expectations that led to this choice.
• Updated Curriculum Vitae.

In the case that the studies with which the student accesses the preregistration of the Master’s Degree are taken in Foreign Higher Education Classes, both the diploma and the academic certificate (grades) must be official and be issued by the competent authorities, in accordance with the legal system of the country of origin.

In addition, the requisites must be fulfilled that are indicated in detail in the “Access and admission procedure for the Master_PO12” of the Teaching Organization Plan that the University has implemented.

Admission Process: Personal interview

In addition to the evaluation of the academic merits provided by the candidate, the students must undergo a personal interview that forms part of the admission process. This interview, conducted by the academic management or coordination of the Master’s Degree or a professor of the faculty, is oriented to verifying the suitability of the candidate and his profile in accordance with the degree. It deals with determining whether the candidate has sufficient motivation, training and knowledge, abilities, aptitudes, communication skills, extracurricular activities and future interests to be admitted as a student in the post-graduate programs of Nebrija University.

In the Master’s Degree in Cognition and Emotion in Educational Contexts, the academic merits have a weight of 20% in the admission process, the other 80% depends on the personal interview. One of the criteria with greatest weight in the interview is having a medium-high level of English in order to be able to read academic texts and be able to take maximum advantage of the program, as well as interest in the basic concepts of neuroscience that can be applied in educational contexts.