2020/21
62050 - Master's dissertation
582 - Master's in Public Administration Law
Master Final Project
4.1. Methodological overview
MIDAP is taught in virtual mode, which will allow the access to the degree to those people who, due to their location, professional or personal reasons, want to do a quality distance training.
The course has a theoretical and a practical dimension. Given the virtual modality of teaching, our methodology focuses on a system of autonomous work of students outside the area, under the guidance of the teacher responsible, and through the use of various tools: theoretical texts, practices based on the case model, student discussion, work with electronic resources, reading of doctrine and jurisprudence and other programmed activities. The teaching methodology follows certain specific strategies, among which we highlight the following three:
"To make the student a partner in the learning process, motivating the constancy and behaviour of being in a continuous training process".
It is proposed to approach the study of the subject in a critical way, both from the revision of legal texts and from the handling of concrete problems that illustrate the reality of administrative law and the functioning of our public administrations. This cultivation requires an effort on the part of the students, from whom an ambitious mentality is demanded, motivation and interest for the understanding, capacity of selection and synthesis of the learned concepts, relation and criticism of the subjects that are treated in the program and the social reality that surrounds them, as well as the handling of the technological resources within their reach to be formed suitably in this discipline.
"Training in social and ethical values"
The lecturers will present the legal institutions related to Administrative Law beyond the mere revision of the legal norms that make it up, also illustrating their discourse with references to the economic and social problems of the moment. The legal analysis must serve to open channels of reflection and discussion, to fix the knowledge of the concepts, and to learn strategies and techniques of own work of this matter.
"To train in quality, promoting lessons based on active methodologies".
The teaching staff of this subject have been carrying out their teaching through active methodologies, with official recognition in numerous teaching innovation projects of the University of Zaragoza and the Rovira i Virgili University with the help of electronic resources.
In the process of learning and teaching the subject, it is necessary to get used to handling legal concepts with solvency and, above all, to arguing and interpreting legal texts (regulations, judgments, contracts, administrative resolutions, doctrinal works, etc.). These are techniques that are preferable to memorising the content of books or legal rules or judgements.
4.2. Learning tasks
Competencies (*) Hours in class /Hours out of class (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
0 0 0
Mechanisms for coordinating and monitoring the work of the end of the degree / master
TC1
CT3
CT6
*0/10 **10
Elaboration of the end of degree / master's work
CE2
CE3
SG4
SG7
SG8
CE9
TC1
CT2
CT3
TC5
CT6
CT7
*0/190 **190
Selection/assignment of the master's thesis
TC1
CT6
*0/5 **5
Presentation and defence of the final degree / master's work
CE3
SG7
CT2
CT3
TC5
CT6
CT7
*0/20 **20