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Title Degree: Bachelor of Security Sciences |
Professional formation lines:
Public Safety or Civil Protection: “Security is part of man’s nature development & existence, yet such suffers a risk that is permanently affected by the social dynamics that generates violence and delinquency, as well as the environmental changes that continuously originate catastrophes, or risks generated by man himself within the working spaces, recreation & culture, amongst others. All of these constitutes a real problem that our society lives, and requires the construction of methods different from the ones that up to now are being practiced”.
General Objective
The objective of this career program is to form individuals with the scientific capacity & basic ethics that can participate in the investigation of the social problems related to security, and in particular the one that affects the rights, liberties and the mental condition of people in order to discover the causes and factors that allow the design, and operate communication strategies for its treatment and prevention.
Entrance Profile
The aspirants of the Bachelor of Security Sciences preferably shall be individuals with: The capacity to innovate / Capacity to observe / Demonstrate oral and written expression capabilities / Vocation towards scientific investigation / Capability and taste for the computer tool handling / Interest towards his/her surrounding problems.
Graduation profile
The Bachelor of Security Sciences graduate shall be able to:
Carry out interdisciplinary character applied investigation to serve for the explaining and interpreting of reality and its context, for the attention and prevention of security problems.
Competences
Knowledge:
The Bachelor of Security Sciences of the different Security Scientific fields / The systematic focusing & its application / The system, structure, organization & institutional function / Administrative gesture of the communication knowledge / Use and application of the methods and scientific techniques / Interpreting & rationalizing the social phenomenon / Planning, implementation and systems evaluation / Elaboration & implementation of norms and policies destined towards the safety and prevention of emergencies & risks. The current related norms.
Capabilities:
Critical reflexive analyzing capacity /Observation capacity / Strategy formulation / Innovating & creative capacity / Alternate thinking Bachelor of Security Sciences / Open to the dialogue / Tolerance & respect to diversity / Capacity to listen (active listening) Social gesture capacity & organization of community groups / Decision taking & criteria concerning Public Safety matters / Oral & written Communication / Knowledge & use of technological tools.
Attitudes: Innovation / Interdisciplinary Vision / Respect to the norms & human rights / Concern about the national & international social surrounding problems / Respect to other citizens.
Values: Truth / Respect / Tolerance / Bachelor of Security Sciences / Objectivity / Justice / Legality / Impartiality / Peace & Order / Solidarity and Freedom of Thought.
Labor Field
The Bachelor of Security Sciences graduate will be able to develop within the following working environments: Working at Public Security Systems & Penal Justice, at a municipal level, state of federal. Working towards delinquency prevention, justice procurement and penal re-insertion. Working at the judicial instances with the implementation of Oral Justice. In the public or private sector, at the different commercial spaces, transportation, communications, tourism, health, culture & recreation and also services related to public safety or civil protection. Investigator, teacher & analyst at different school levels, companies and institutions of the private and public sectors.
Investigation Lines:
CONTENTS
Basic Formation:
Assignments that provide the interdisciplinary knowledge related to security, identifying such as the study object, Introduction to the Study of Law, Human Safety, Development & Security, among others.
Complementary Formation:
The complementary formation relates to the assignments that support the basic training, incorporating the knowledge of the disciplinary fields that provide an integral formation such as English Text Reading & Comprehension, Thought Development Skills, and Work Teams Organization, etc.
Within this grouping, the optional complimentary assignment is geared towards looking for the facilitating of different tracks and the necessary adaptation, in order to recognize the student’s needs, the student’s forming interests, the differences in the previous formation, academic antecedents, and the different learning forms and rhythm.
This program includes the complimentary selected theme subjects that will enable the student to deal with different current themes, given the diversity of the social, cultural or nature changes, among others, that affect safety. For the programming of the selected themes, the coordination will determine their content, and the assigned coordinating professor available, will provide the corresponding program, specifying objectives, contents, resources, methodology and the necessary bibliographic support sources. Bachelor of Security Sciences: English I & II will incorporate into the Education Program in order to raise the academic quality, as well as facilitate and promote the student’s mobility. The need to obtain a credit in the English specific domain is due to the advances at forums of the greatest novelties related to Safety at English speaking countries,and within the international environment.
Investigation:
The purpose of the investigation assignment is to provide the knowledge and necessary capabilities, such are grouped for the applied investigation: Computers, Statistics, Probability, Methods & Investigation Techniques geared towards Security, Community Work Methods & Techniques, Investigation Seminar I & II.
The investigation program is meant to stimulate the student in order that he/or she would be able to develop investigation projects by means of oriented activities such as: experimental classes, mocks, practices and community work. Investigation Seminars: The Investigation Seminar assignments I & II, should be taken once at least 80 percent of the total credits of the education program have been obtained with the purpose of promoting such investigation. For that reason the said subjects will be integrated to the study plan before the student concludes the total credits. At the same time these assignments will serve as a support to the student in the case that either he or she decide about a certain Thesis as a graduation option. The graduation degree options are ruled by the University’s Legislation.
Professional Major:
The center theme objective is to manage for the student to go deep into the knowledge of the assignments related to Security according to the major terminal lines of particular interest. The Bachelor of Security Science students will learn the specialty knowledge that distinguishes the professional practice.
There are two Bachelor major terminal lines: Civil Public Security Protection. The specialized courses of the professional formation are presented during the last three semesters in order to favor the disciplinary orientation towards the investigation, yet it requires to have concrete support strategies such as tutoring, the follow up of the school track, the values, and the necessary attitudes for the permanent formation.
The professional practice and social service should be credited as per the University’s Legislation; in the first case, according to the professional major; that is to say: according to the student’s choice, with the presentation of supervised technical reports by the teacher in charged of the practice where the knowledge application will be evaluated. Such service shall be 300 hours, and includes the formulation of analysis & implication scenarios of the different natural order factors, geographic, or social, that commit the strategic Security strategies.
The student should demonstrate communication, oral and written capabilities that are necessary for the political communication, strategies, programs or Security promotion actions, and respect towards the Law, or before emergency situations.
The student will analyze the governmental social policy practices that are related to Security in order to provide new alternates that promote Security under the prevention perspective, the pacific conflict solution, and the plurality living regarding respect and human rights.
The student will elaborate the strategy as well as the efficient tactic actions to solve emerging urban problems before incidental situations, or local level disasters, regional or national. Carry out arbitration and expertise analysis to determine areas, or risk factors and raise the conditions, or security measures adopted at an individual or institutional level.
The student will coordinate interdisciplinary teams conformed with the investigation, or action application in the security solution, or during emergencies, in themes or specific contexts, applying the technological advancements.
Investigation Lines
| COURSE | CREDITS |
FORMATION CENTER | COURSE | CREDITS |
FORMATION CENTER |
| First Semester | Fifth Semester | ||||
| Economic Development & Safety | 5 |
Basic | Psychology of Security | 7 |
Basic |
| Introduction to Law | 5 |
Basic | Psycho-Pathology | 5 |
Basic |
| General Systems Theory | 7 |
Basic | Communication & Information Technologies Applied to Security | 7 |
Basic |
| State, Democracy & Governing | 5 |
Basic | Social Psychology | 5 |
Basic |
| Human Security | 5 |
Basic | Transport Security in the Communication Channels & in the Means of Transportation | 7 |
Basic |
| Reading & Text Comprehension | 5 |
Complementary | English V | 5 |
Complementary |
| Thinking Capabilities Development | 5 |
Complementary | Methodology of Social Investigation for Security | 7 |
Investigation |
| English | 5 |
Complementary | |||
| Second Semester | Sixth Semester | ||||
| Sociology Elements Applied to Security | 7 |
Basic | Communication & Safety Media | 7 |
Basic |
| Constitutional Law | 5 |
Basic | Penal Law Elements | 5 |
Basic |
| Geography | 7 |
Basic | Methods & Techniques for the Solving of Conflicts | 6 |
Basic |
| Models Theory | 7 |
Basic | Complementary Optional I | 3 |
Complementary |
| Security & Gender | 3 |
Complementary | Complementary Optional II | 3 |
Complementary |
| Organization & Teamwork | 7 |
Complementary | Work Groups Theory & Techniques | 7 |
Investigation |
| Computers | 5 |
Investigation | Optional Professional Assignment I | 5 |
Professional Option |
| English II | 5 |
Complementary | English VI | 5 |
Complementary |
| Third Semester | Seventh Semester | ||||
| Introduction to Administration | 5 |
Basic | Professional Practices | 5 |
N/A |
| Guarantees & Human Rights | 5 |
Basic | Complementary Option III | 5 |
Complementary |
| Human Communication | 3 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment II | 7 |
Professional Option |
| Environmental Gesture | 5 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment III | 7 |
Professional Option |
| Criminology | 5 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment IV | 7 |
Professional Option |
| Professional Values | 2 |
Complementary | Optional Professional Assignment V | 5 |
Professional Option |
| English III | 5 |
Complementary | Investigation Seminar I | 5 |
Investigation |
| Applied Statistics | 7 |
Investigation | |||
| Fourth Semester | Eighth Semester | ||||
| Theory of the Organizations | 5 |
Basic | Social Service | 10 |
N/A |
| Gesture & Public Policies | 5 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment VI | 5 |
Professional Option |
| Urbanism | 5 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment VII | 7 |
Professional Option |
| Demography & Immigration | 5 |
Basic | Optional Professional Assignment IX | 7 |
Professional Option |
| Introduction to Civil Protection | 5 |
Basic | Complementary Optional IV | 5 |
Professional Option |
| English IV | 5 |
Complementary | Investigation Seminar | 8 |
Professional Option |
| Probability | 7 |
Investigation | |||
| Optional Complementary Assignments | Optional Professional Formation Assignments (Public Safety) | ||||
| Judicial Frame Urban Developmet | 5 |
Complementary | Victimology | 5 |
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| Institutional Communication | 5 |
Complementary | Police Professionalizing System in Mexico | 7 |
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| Psychology the Delinquent | 5 |
Complementary | Crime Prevention | 7 |
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| Urban Geography | 5 |
Complementary | Public Safety Institutions | 7 |
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| Globalization & Insecurity | 5 |
Complementary | Penal (Criminal) Procedure System (Accusation Justice & Mixed) | 5 |
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| Gesture Control Systems | 5 |
Complementary | Penal Procedure System Accusing Justice & Mixed) | 5 |
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| Communication Workwshop for Security | 5 |
Complementary | Minors & Delinquency | 5 |
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| Public Security & National Security | 5 |
Complementary | Crimes in Particular | 5 |
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| Teaching Models & Techniques Applied to Security | 5 |
Complementary | Penal Re-insertion | 7 |
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| Selected Themes | 5 |
Complementary | Private Security | 7 |
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Optional Professional Formation Assignments (Civil Protection) |
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| Urban Planning Elements | 5 |
Professional Option | |||
| Labor Security | 7 |
Professional Option | |||
| International Models of Civil Protection | 7 |
Professional Option | |||
| Institutional Structure of Civil Protection | 7 |
Professional Option | |||
| Climate Change & Security | 5 |
Professional Option | |||
| Public Health Disaster & Emergency | 5 |
Professional Option | |||
| Elaboration of Scenarios & Response to Emergencies | 5 |
Professional Option | |||
| Mocks & Simulations | 7 |
Professional Option | |||
| Urban Development, Causes & Urban Insecurity Factors | 7 |
Professional Option | |||
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