The Master in Contemporary studies on the Arab world and Muslim communities: Social Mediation and Conflict Management is a multidisciplinary qualification taught by specialists from Arab and Islamic Studies, Political Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work. Its study programme has a strong professional vocation, offering advanced knowledge on contemporary Arab and Islamic contexts, as well as theoretical and methodological tools for analysis, social mediation, and intervention.

 

Study programme:

                                                                                                  

Courses	ECTS
Module 1: Arab world and Islam in Spain
Contemporary Islam: religious doctrine and political authority	6
Political systems and social movements in the Arab world	6
Language politics and contemporary social dynamics	6
Islam in Spain: contexts and legislation	6
Orientalism and postcolonial theory	6
Module 2: Sociocultural Mediation and Conflict Management
Choose between:
1. Sociocultural Mediation (choose 2)
Integration strategies: migrations and migratory politics	6
Fundamental political dimensions in the European Union and the Mediterranean	6
Introduction to social research methodology	6
2. Conflict Management (choose 2)
Geopolitics of globalization	6
Democratization, development and foreign politics in the MENA region	6
International relations West-Muslim World	6
Module 3: Internship	6
MA Thesis	12