{"id":74158,"date":"2020-05-13T09:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T07:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/?p=74158"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:24:46","slug":"almost-half-of-the-urvs-masters-degrees-will-be-taught-online-in-the-first-semester-of-the-next-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/almost-half-of-the-urvs-masters-degrees-will-be-taught-online-in-the-first-semester-of-the-next-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost half of the URV\u2019s master\u2019s degrees will be taught online in the first semester of the next academic year"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some time now the URV has been committed to introducing online teaching to its master\u2019s degrees, with the result that it now offers 10 master\u2019s degrees that can be studied entirely online and a further 17 that offer a blend of online and face-to-face study. Now, however, the University is taking further action to respond to the uncertainty surrounding the beginning of the new academic year, which means that future students will have greater freedom to choose when and how they wish to study.<\/p>\n

Consequently, in addition to the 10 online master\u2019s degrees, a further 14 will be adapted so that they can be studied from a distance, at least during the first semester of the 2020-21 academic year. This amounts to\u00a0nearly half of the 54 master\u2019s degrees<\/a>\u00a0currently offered by the URV, in addition to 8 others that are taught in a blended format.<\/p>\n

Measures to facilitate the specialization of bachelor\u2019s degree students and professionals<\/h5>\n

The move to teaching online is one of the measures being adopted by the URV to make its courses more flexible and to facilitate training for bachelor\u2019s degree students and professionals who are looking for an official qualification that prepares them for the job market or for academic study. But it is not the only one; students can also study a master\u2019s degree part-time and are thus better able to ensure a healthy balance between their studies, their work and their personal and family responsibilities. To do this, students need to register for a minimum of 18 ECTS credits in face-to-face format and for 12 ECTS credits online.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, to facilitate access to specialisation in the current complex situation, future students will not have to pay the reservation fee for their place on the course when they pre-register for master\u2019s degree for the 2020-21 academic year. This means that any individual who has completed their undergraduate studies can now pre-register for a master\u2019s course, as can students in the final year of their bachelor\u2019s degrees, who will have obtained their qualifications by the time they register.<\/p>\n

Master\u2019s degrees with the first semester taught online<\/h5>\n

The classroom-based master\u2019s courses that are to be taught entirely online in the first semester are the master\u2019s degrees in Fermented Drinks; Management of Technology Companies; and Nutrition and Metabolism. Also, for the master\u2019s degrees in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language and Synthesis, Catalysis and Molecular Design, students can choose whether they want to study the first semester online or face-to-face.<\/p>\n

Blended master\u2019s degrees with the first semester online<\/h5>\n

Of the 17 blended master\u2019s degrees, 4 already offer the first semester entirely online (Strategic Communication;\u00a0Tourist Destination Management;\u00a0Planning, Governance and Territorial Leadership, and Systems and Technologies for Energy Conversion). To these will be added the master\u2019s degrees in Medical Anthropology and Global Health; and Professional Translation between English and Spanish. Furthermore, 3 other master\u2019s courses allow students to choose if they want to study the first semester online or in a blended format:\u00a0these are the master\u2019s degrees in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention; Teaching and Learning of English as a Foreign\/Second Language; Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention.<\/p>\n

10 master\u2019s degrees taught completely online<\/h5>\n

The master\u2019s degrees offered entirely online are in Environmental Law; Computational Engineering and Mathematics; Medieval European Identity; Computational Fluid Mechanics; and Educational Technology: e-Learning and Knowledge Management. A further 4 offer students the option of completely online study or blended learning, these being the master\u2019s courses in Company and Contract Law; Computer Security Engineering and Artificial Intelligence; Women, Gender and Citizenship Studies; Research into Nursing Sciences; and Public Administration Law.<\/p>\n

All the information regarding the URV\u2019s master\u2019s courses, pre-registration, grants and awards, and international mobility options can be found at www.urv.cat\/masters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The move online and the opportunity to study part-time help students as they prepare for their professional careers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":73667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3498,3502,3476,3490,3470,3462,3459,3468,3488,3472,3464,3474,3494,3500,3480,3482,3486,789,232,791,787,788,790,249,246,819,82,3989,818,800,820,784,786,794],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytical-organic-chemistry","category-anthropology-philosophy-social-work","category-biochemistry-biotechnology","category-business-management","category-communication-studies","category-computer-engineering-mathematics","category-electronic-electric-automatic-engineering","category-english-german-studies","category-geography","category-history","category-mechanical-engineering","category-nursing","category-pedagogy","category-physical-inorganic-chemistry","category-private-law","category-public-law","category-romance-studies","category-faculty-arts","category-faculty-business-economics","category-faculty-chemistry","category-faculty-education-psychology","category-faculty-legal-sciences","category-faculty-medicine","category-faculty-nursing","category-faculty-oenology","category-faculty-tourism-geography","category-general-en","category-master","category-press-releases","category-quality","category-school-architecture","category-school-chemical-engineering","category-school-engineering","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}