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STG

Master's Degree in Project Management (2nd Edition)

Modality
In-person
Branch of knowledge
Engineering and Architecture
Ambit of knowledge
Interdisciplinar.
School(s)
Campus
Lugo
Coordinator
Carlos Amiama Ares
Contact
carlos.amiama@usc.es

The constant evolution of the project management discipline requires a reformulation of the title, to adapt the contents to the new needs that society requires. At the same time, the extension of the application of project management techniques and tools
beyond the engineering field requires giving the master's degree a more interdisciplinary character that allows it to satisfy the expectations of students with an access profile that is increasingly varied and distant from the engineering field. This reality forces us not only to provide the contents of the master's degree with a more transversal nature, but also to incorporate teachers from areas other than those currently taught in the master's degree (Engineering Projects), such as the areas of Business Organization, Marketing and Market Research or Financial Economics and Accounting.

  • Duration: 1 academic year
    RUCT code: 3500274
    ECTS Number: 60
    Seats number: 25

    Dean or center director:
    ROSA ROMERO FRANCO
    rosa.romero@usc.es

    Title coordinator:
    Carlos Amiama Ares
    carlos.amiama@usc.es

    Use languages:
    Spanish, Galician

    Coordinator university:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Partaker universities:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Xunta de Galicia title implantation authorization date:
    15/07/2024

    BOE publication date:
    27/12/2024

    Last accreditation date:
    28/01/2019

  • • Compulsory: 30
    • Optional: 6
    • Compulsory external internships: 12
    • Master's final dissertation: 12
    o Total: 60

    The master's degree, of 60 ECTS credits, is structured into three large modules.
    The first of them, an expository and interactive teaching module (36 ECTS credits), called “Fundamentals of project management” in which the body of compulsory subjects will be taken (30 ECTS credits distributed in 10 subjects of 3 ECTS credits each one) that will allow the student to achieve the learning results that constitute the core element of this master's degree.
    Likewise, in this module 4 optional subjects will be offered (3 ECTS credits each) of which the student must take 2, completing the remaining 6 ECTS credits.
    Once this module is completed, the student will carry out external academic internships that will have a load of 12 ECTS credits.
    Finally, the student must complete the Master's final dissertation, which will have a load of 12 ECTS credits.

    Between mid-September and the following subjects will be offered (first semester):
    - Conceptual framework of project management.
    -Project scope management.
    - Time and resource management.
    - Monitoring and control of the project.
    - Project information and communications management.
    - People management.
    Between mid-January and July-September the following subjects will be offered (second semester):
    - Hiring and negotiation
    - Project risk and opportunity management
    -Quality management
    - Analysis of financial viability.
    - Sustainability in project management.
    - Risk management in investment projects.
    - Research project management.
    - Commercial management of the project.
    - Internship
    - Master's final dissertation
    The teaching load is balanced weekly (18 ECTS in each period) and then the Internships and the TFM are completed.

  • · Know the main standards in project management and its applicability to different contexts.
    · Be familiar with the terminology and specific tools for project management.
    · Understand the relevance the discipline has in the organisations and the management of their project portfolios, projects, and programmes

  • Mobility

    Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as
    national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
    https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional

    Internships

    The student must take a total of 12 ECTS credits of company internships, in which they will put into practice the competences, skills and knowledge acquired in the master's degree. The student will be able to choose between one of the more than 130 companies with an agreement with the master's degree that currently exist or propose another typology, it being necessary to sign an agreement between the USC and the company, prior to the student's incorporation. During the development of their internship in a company, students will have an academic tutor, a teacher of the master's degree, and a professional tutor, belonging to the company.

  • The master's thesis aims to be an anticipated professional activity where the students applie the knowledge acquired in their training to a real and complex problem. When carrying out project management work, you must analyse the problem, choose the most appropriate solution to solve it and implement the actions to put this solution into
    practice, ending with a potential evaluation of the expected results. The theme of the work will be of sufficient magnitude, preferably derived from a real commission. Each student will have a tutor to carry out continuous and dynamic monitoring. The possibility is contemplated for the student to choose as their master's final dessertation a novel topic in project management to delve deeper into that line of work. It is also considered as a possibility for the student to develop an analysis of the maturity of an organisation, in terms of the implementation of project management methodologies and techniques.

The contents of this page were updated on 07.30.2024.