UMH - Bachelor's in Public Safety and Private Security

Bachelor's in Public Safety and Private Security

Degree

Years:

Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Elche

Field of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences

Instruction: Online

Tuition (€) per ECTS credit:

The monetary amounts correspond to each exam call

1st: 14.96

2nd: 28.35

3rd: 60.12

4th: 80.16

Description

There is a constant and growing demand for university-level education on the issue of security to satisfy social demands that require that those charged with safeguarding our well-being know how to respond with conviction and flexibility to a variety of situations, both foreseen and exceptional, that arise within the complex environment of human coexistence. This has resulted in the need for the creation of a complete training program on public safety and private security, and enables enrolling in a university undergraduate program on this issue.

Thus, the Bachelor's in Public Safety and Private Security at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche offers a university education that is practically unique within the public and private Spanish university system, aiming to profile the so-called "police career" besides offering training in other areas that refer to security in general, both public and private, and essentially from a multidisciplinary perspective. This undergraduate program trains, first of all, police officers who are effective in preventing (security police) and investigating (judicial, criminal, and scientific police) crime in addition to citizen-friendly peace officers capable of performing other public services (administrative police). Furthermore, this program brings together the remaining necessary areas of trainin - both public and private as well as providing assistance - to achieve the desired and necessary connection of training and carrying out operational and preventive security actions within a setting of higher education. All of this is conducted with scrupulous respect for constitutional values and the fundamental rights of individuals.

Career opportunities

Regulated profession: No

Management of security in public and private environments.

Intelligence and public safety analyst.

Cybersecurity management.

Analysis of and consulting on international security at companies and organizations.

Security at local levels of government.

Tourism security and protection for local populations.

Industrial security and risk control.

Managers at security firms, personnel instructors, advisors.

Intelligence and public safety analyst.

Program Coordinator

FERNANDEZ CASTEJON, ELENA BEATRIZ
efernandez(arroba)umh.es
+34 96 665 8622

Program delegates

DELICADO VÍLCHEZ, AURELIO
FIRST YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
grado.seguridadpublica.primero(arroba)delegacion.umh.es
PEREZ ENTRENA, CRISTÓBAL
FIRST YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
grado.subseguridadpub.primero(arroba)delegacion.umh.es

Curriculum

ECTS credits: 240

Core	Required	Electives	External internships	Final Degree Project
60	144	24	6	6

Design

This program is comprised of 240 ECTS credits distributed throughout four years, and each year contains two semesters. There is a Final Degree Project. Of 240 the program credits, 144 are the required variety, 60 are core, 24 are elective, 6 are internships, and 6 correspond to the program's Final Degree Project.

The program's courses address the following areas: administrative law, constitutional law, criminal law, procedural law, philosophy of law, history of law and institutions, commercial law, private international law, social anthropology, political science & public administration, fundamentals of economic analysis and business organization, statistics and operations research, legal and forensic medicine, methodology of behavioral sciences; personality, evaluation, and treatment; basic psychology, social psychology, preventive medicine & public health, labor law, and medicine.

Courses

Module	Subject matter	Course	ECTS credits	Type	Year/Semester
					1		2		3		4
					F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S
Core
	Anthropology
		SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CRIME
			SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF CRIME	6	Core	■
	Business Organization
		MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION OF ORGANIZATIONS
			MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION OF ORGANIZATIONS	6	Core	■
	Criminology
		INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY
			INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY	6	Core	■
	Statistics
		INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
			INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS	6	Core	■
	Law
		CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
			CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	6	Core		■
		HISTORY OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF SECURITY
			HISTORY OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF SECURITY	6	Core		■
		INTRODUCTION TO LAW
			INTRODUCTION TO LAW	6	Core	■
	Political Sciences
		SECURITY AND PUBLIC POLICY
			SECURITY AND PUBLIC POLICY	6	Core		■
	Psychology
		INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
			INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY	6	Core		■
	Sociology
		SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIATION
			SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIATION	6	Core		■
Criminological Sciences Applied to Security
	Basic Criminology
		CRIMINAL PHENOMENOLOGY
			CRIMINAL PHENOMENOLOGY	6	Required			■
		CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES
			CRIMINOLOGICAL THEORIES	4.5	Required			■
		STATUTE OF THE VICTIM AND VICTIMOLOGY
			STATUTE OF THE VICTIM AND VICTIMOLOGY	6	Required				■
	Special Criminology
		CRIME PREVENTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY
			CRIME PREVENTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY	4.5	Required				■
		CYBERCRIME AND CYBERSECURITY
			CYBERCRIME AND CYBERSECURITY	4.5	Required						■
		ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM
			ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM	4.5	Required						■
Behavioral Sciences Applied to Security
	Social Psychology
		SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
			SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY	4.5	Required			■
	Forensic Psychology
		CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY
			CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY	4.5	Required					■
		LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF TESTIMONY
			LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF TESTIMONY	4.5	Required						■
Application of Interdisciplinary Sciences to Security
	Methodology
		RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
			RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES	4.5	Required			■
	Criminal Policy
		CRIMINAL POLICY
			CRIMINAL POLICY	4.5	Required				■
	Emergencies
		CIVIL PROTECTION AND EMERGENCIES
			CIVIL PROTECTION AND EMERGENCIES	4.5	Required					■
	Violent Crime
		DOMESTIC AND GENDER VIOLENCE
			DOMESTIC AND GENDER VIOLENCE	4.5	Required							■
Legal Sciences Applied to Security
	Criminal Law
		CRIMINAL LAW FOR MINORS AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
			CRIMINAL LAW FOR MINORS AND JUVENILE DELINQUENCY	6	Required					■
		CRIMINAL LAW I
			CRIMINAL LAW I	6	Required			■
		CRIMINAL LAW II
			CRIMINAL LAW II	6	Required				■
		CRIMINAL PROCESS
			CRIMINAL PROCESS	6	Required						■
	Special Law
		IMMIGRATION, FOREIGNERS AND EU COMMUNITY CITIZENS
			IMMIGRATION, FOREIGNERS AND EU COMMUNITY CITIZENS	4.5	Required							■
		PENITENTIARY LAW AND PENOLOGY
			PENITENTIARY LAW AND PENOLOGY	6	Required					■
		PRIVATE MEDIATION
			PRIVATE MEDIATION	6	Required							■
		SOCIOECONOMIC CRIMINALITY
			SOCIOECONOMIC CRIMINALITY	4.5	Required					■
		TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY
			TRAFFIC AND ROAD SAFETY	4.5	Required				■
Security Sciences
	Security
		ETHICS OF SECURITY
			ETHICS OF SECURITY	4.5	Required							■
		PRIVATE SECURITY
			PRIVATE SECURITY	4.5	Required			■
	Public Security
		CITIZEN SECURITY
			CITIZEN SECURITY	4.5	Required					■
		JUDICIAL POLICE AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
			JUDICIAL POLICE AND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION	4.5	Required							■
		POLICE ADMINISTRATION
			POLICE ADMINISTRATION	4.5	Required				■
		POLICE INTERVENTION
			POLICE INTERVENTION	4.5	Required						■
		POLICE, CRIME AND COMMUNITY
			POLICE, CRIME AND COMMUNITY	6	Required						■
Internships
	Internships
		INTERNSHIPS
			INTERNSHIPS	6	Internships							■
Transversal and Professional Competencies
	Program Electives
		BIG DATA AND COMPUTER FORENSICS
			BIG DATA AND COMPUTER FORENSICS	4.5	Elective								■
		HISTORY OF CRIME
			HISTORY OF CRIME	6	Elective								■
		LABOR LAW AND RISK PREVENTION
			LABOR LAW AND RISK PREVENTION	4.5	Elective								■
		OPENINGS AND ESTABLISHMENTS
			OPENINGS AND ESTABLISHMENTS	4.5	Elective								■
		SCIENTIFIC POLICE AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
			SCIENTIFIC POLICE AND FORENSIC MEDICINE	6	Elective								■
		THE ENVIRONMENT
			THE ENVIRONMENT	4.5	Elective								■
		URGENCIES AND EMERGENCIES
			URGENCIES AND EMERGENCIES	4.5	Elective								■
Final Degree Project
	Final Degree Project
		FINAL DEGREE PROJECT
			FINAL DEGREE PROJECT	6	Final Degree Project								■

Competencies

General competencies

Be capable of acquiring the ability to acquire, consolidate, expand, and integrate fundamental knowledge in the areas of public safety and private security.
Possess and understand up-to-date knowledge of the main institutions of formal and informal social control and responses to emergencies.
Understand the techniques and instruments for correctly managing the prosecution and prevention of crime, and/or antisocial or illegal behavior.
Learn and understand the criminological, psychological, sociological, legal, and technical language necessary for correctly dealing with security concepts in the field of the social and legal sciences.
Understand the complexity and diversity of the criminal phenomenon in a globalized world and be able to identify the psychological and contextual principles that explain individual and collective behavior.
Know how to carry out, evaluate, and execute scientific and technical projects and reports related to criminality and security.
Understand, know how to organize, and plan individual and group resources available for carrying out, in their various modalities, the professions related to public safety and private security and during emergencies.
Be capable of identifying and resolving problems on issues related to police, security, and emergency areas.
Be capable of understanding legal and security systems and working on multidisciplinary teams, especially those legal, police, criminological, and security.
Possess an ethical commitment with a critical capacity and the ability to demonstrate coherent attitudes with ethical and deontological conceptions in professional application.
Acquire critical and analytical capacity in police areas, public safety and private security, and the legal and social sciences.
Be capable of identifying, interpreting, formulating, and resolving basic problems in criminological, police, and security fields from the perspective of the social and legal sciences.
Be able to adapt to and remain current on new expertise and scientific advances, as well as with the evolution of needs, in order to adopt an innovative and creative attitude in the exercise of professions related to the field of public safety and private security.

Specific competencies

Understand basic operations and the organization of the Spanish public safety and private security system.
Know and understand criminological, psychological, and social fundamentals, nuances, and motivations of human behavior and their application for practical professional actions.
Understand the manner of scientific and methodological application of the social and legal sciences to the professional areas of public safety and private security.
Know how to attend to or meet the needs of victims on individual, group, and community levels with special reference to highly victimized groups as well as the most vulnerable victims.
Be capable of applying legal, technical, criminological, and psychosocial knowledge in the examination and comprehension of different forms of criminal or antisocial behavior.
Be capable of analyzing crime, criminals, and victims, and design prevention and intervention strategies while respecting democratic values, human rights, and equality between men and women.
Be capable of designing and applying strategies for resolving specific conflicts in social, administrative, criminal, and criminological contexts.
Understand how to interpret data related to criminality and antisocial behavior, from legal, political, criminological, and psychosocial perspectives.
Be capable of providing scientific knowledge on criminal or antisocial acts, the personality of the perpetrator, criminogenic factors or elements present, possible criminological explanations, or the type of the applicable response.
Know how to apply knowledge of security in different possibilities of professional development and possess the competencies for applying professional tools to resolve the various problems that insecurity poses.
Understand the legal framework that regulates activities related to security, crime, or antisocial behavior, be aware of current regulations that affect them, and be capable of planning and developing activities in accordance with regulatory guidelines.
Understand the multidisciplinary nature of the system of security and civil protection in a manner that permits achieving a vision of its reality that includes the main public and private institutions and areas dedicated to its maintenance.
Be able to analyze aspects related to safeguarding persons and property, types of protection, and criminal strategies in both physical safety as well as logical and/or property security.
Understand basic operations and the organization of the Spanish system of formal control, security, and protection during emergencies.
Know the scientific and methodological fundamentals of security and be able to manage services and activities for monitoring and protecting persons and property.
Understand the relationship between institutions, mechanisms, and procedures of various disciplines with the objectives and needs of public safety and police functions.

Access and Admissions

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