• 3 compulsory modules (18 ECTS)
• A choice amongst 9 optional modules (a total of 20 ECTS must be completed if the student undertakes an internship or 30 if he/she does not – the number of optional modules chosen must be sufficient to complete the ECTS requirements)
• No internships are offered by the University of Javeriana
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Classes are held on Fridays from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. a 17:00 p.m.
During the Regional Training, students are expected to:
- Experience humanitarian action in the regional context.
- Analyse the relation between humanitarian action and peacebuilding and conflict resolution as well as,
- Design research on humanitarian action in the region.
The Regional Training at the University of Javeriana contains a full-fledged academic programme focusing on
Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution and the challenges for human security in a conflict resolution and post conflict context.
All courses are taught in Spanish
Students are encouraged to do a short internship (10 ECTS) within a humanitarian organization. The internships are not provided by the University of Javeriana. If the internship is approved by their NOHA Director and Partner University Academic Responsible, students will need to follow courses amounting to 20 ECTS of the programme.
This specialization is geared towards students from various disciplines anxious to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in peace studies and conflict resolution, who have an option for the construction of peace and the peaceful resolution of conflicts and have the disposition for the interdisciplinary work where they develop abilities for research and the design of processes of intervention.
The Academic Credit in Colombia is equivalent to 48 hours of student work, including academic hours with teaching support and other hours to be spent in independent study, practice, test preparation or other activities that are necessary to achieve the proposed learning goals, not including those for the presentation of final exams. This means that 1 credit is equivalent to 2 ECTS[1]. The maximum number of credits that student can take for semester in Colombia is 16 credits that the equivalent of 30 ECTS.
The following table provides an overview of the Compulsory modules (16 ECTS) and Optional modules (to complete the 20 ECTS if you do an internship or 30 ECTS if you do not) and their conversion to ECTS:
Acción Humanitaria en Colombia: Desafíos y Potencialidades para el postconflicto y la construcción de paz
| No. |
Name |
Colombian credits |
ECTS |
| Compulsory modules |
|
|
| 1. |
Teoría de conflictos y construcción de paz - ok |
3 |
6 |
2.
|
3 |
6 |
| 3. |
Posconflicto, Reconciliación y justicia transicional - ok |
3 |
6 |
| |
Total compulsory modules |
9 |
18 |
| |
|
|
| Optional modules |
|
|
| 1. |
Teoría y práctica de la negociación |
2 |
4 |
| 2. |
Construcción de Consensos |
3 |
6 |
| 3. |
Métodos de investigación para la paz |
2 |
4 |
| 4. |
Construcción y educación para la paz - ok |
2 |
4 |
| 5. |
Prevención de conflictos y violencias contemporáneas – ok |
2 |
4 |
| 6. |
Procesos de paz comparados - ok |
3 |
6 |
| 7. |
Género, conflicto y paz - ok |
2 |
4 |
| 8. |
Seminario de investigación I |
3 |
6 |
| 9. |
Seminario de investigación II |
3 |
6 |
10. Derechos Humanos y Transformación de Conflictos 3 6
Please note that there may be changes in the modules presented above according to revisions made by the partner university to adjust the curriculum to the future academic calendars.
