ESTUDIOS DE GRADO

The Nursing Degree programme aims to train general nursing professionals, endowing them with the scientific and human preparation to assess, identify, evaluate and act in accordance with the health needs of both healthy and sick people, families and the community. Phenomena of particular concern to nurses are responses to the actual or potential health problems of individuals, families, and groups. These human responses generally range from health needs to recovery from illness. Thus, the role of the nurse, when caring for healthy or sick people, is to assess their responses to their state of health, or recovery, or a dignified death, assisting them, if possible, to regain their independence as soon as possible.

Within the health system, nurses share with other medical professionals functions related to planning, organization, management and evaluation to guarantee a health system facilitating the development of people's potentialities in different situations of their daily lives, the promotion of health, the prevention of disease, and care for the sick and disabled. Therefore, studies towards the Degree in Nursing are designed so that future graduates acquire:

• Broad knowledge of nursing, health, human and social sciences, being able to respond to the health-related needs and expectations of individuals, families, groups and the community.
• Skills for the observation of nursing care procedures and clinical guidelines.
• The ability to establish positive relationships with those assigned to their care.
• The capacity to apply the scientific method in their interventions.
• The tools necessary to develop a critical and reflective attitude.

The Faculty of Sciences at the University of Cordoba offers five undergraduate degrees: Biology, Biochemistry, Environmental Sciences, Physics and Chemistry, each lasting 4 years and consisting of 240 ECTS. These degrees are of an eminently practical nature, such that lectures are complemented by other activities such as seminars, lab work, field trips, and visits to industries and institutions. These activities are carried out in small groups of students, facilitating the learning of these concepts and the acquisition of competences through independent work.

The Faculty of Sciences is on the Rabanales University Campus, which is of a scientific/technological nature, located just 5 km from the centre of Cordoba and easily accessible by train, bus or bicycle (bike path). This departmentally organized university campus boasts numerous laboratories dedicated to teaching and research, and equipped with modern instrumentation. Located in an ecotone area on the edge of the Sierra Morena mountain range, the campus itself presents great biodiversity, an aspect that has been protected and promoted through the adaptation of the "University Forest", featuring different habitats. Next to the Campus is the Estación de Campo de Román Pérez, a property covering more than 300 hectares and that, in accordance with an agreement, is available for research and teaching activities by the university community. It includes facilities to house researchers, and offers a wide range of possibilities due to its enormous biodiversity, with more than 100 species of birds, and varied habitats, including wetlands. All this, with the possibility of sustainable use and almost no carbon footprint, as it is next to the Campus, such that students can walk there. Research, internationally recognized, is a cornerstone of the Faculty of Sciences, allowing faculty to remain up to date on the latest recent scientific advances, and the subsequent transfer of knowledge generated to their teaching.

All the Faculty of Sciences' degree programmes offer some classes in English, allowing students to complete 30 ECTS in this language, in addition to their Final Degree Project. This system allows students to improve their linguistic competence in scientific English, furnishing their education with a significant added value, given the importance of this language in oral and written scientific communications.

Since 1980 the Faculty of Law and Business & Economics has occupied the former Convento del Carmen in the Plaza de Puerta Nueva, whose 17th-century cloister has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest, constituting the facility's signature space.

In recent years the excellence of its teaching and its adaptation to the demands of the job market have attracted many students to this Faculty; with more than 2,500 students in its classrooms, it is currently the University's largest.

The Faculty offers a broad range of courses in Law and Business, and the following degrees:

• Law (4 years)
• Business Administration (4 years)
• Double Degree in Law and Business Administration (5 ½ years)
• Double Degree in Civil Engineering and Business Administration (5 years)

These offerings are designed to train experts meeting market requirements as regards the legal professions, such as legal orientation related to business, banking and finance, as well as public administration. In addition, it is devised to produce professionals capable of administrating and managing production units efficiently to ensure continued increases in standards of living and social progress.

The Higher Polytechnic School at the University of Cordoba has been training professionals in different branches of Engineering and Technical Engineering for more than 90 years, with degrees in high demand by society. It was founded as an Industrial School in 1928. In 1972 it was incorporated as a University School of Industrial Technical Engineering into the recently created University of Córdoba, becoming the Higher Polytechnic School of Córdoba in 1996.

The institution currently issues the following degrees:

• Electrical Engineering
• Industrial Electronic Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Computer Engineering, with specializations in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Computing
• Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering

All the degrees issued by the Polytechnic School are among those enjoying the highest demand on the Spanish labour market, boasting a high employability rate (>80%).

The Faculty of Labour Sciences offers a bilingual itinerary for the degree in Tourism, consisting of 123 ECT credits, and a wide range of classes, ranging from Tourism Marketing to Human Resources Management. The Faculty of Labour Sciences is located on the Central Campus of the University of Córdoba, with two sites. Tourism studies are offered at the Menéndez Pidal classrooms.

The Degree in Tourism at the University of Córdoba offers students an educational experience closely linked to professional practices and the working world, providing pupils with knowledge and skills in business management, tourism activity planning, destinations, services, and resources, with innovation and sustainability as central axes.

Students studying for the degree in Tourism may complete external internships (at companies or public or private organizations). This is an aspect that allows students to exhibit previously acquired knowledge, complements training acquired, and motivates them. Students who have completed internships have found them to be very enriching.

The Faculty of Education Sciences is an institution with a long history in the training of educators. It offers degrees in Early Childhood Education and in Primary Education, both of which may be completed as bilingual programmes, reflecting the faculty's forward-looking nature and international orientation, part of a decided commitment within the educational system to bilingual education. Also offered is a degree in Social Education, one of the most popular at the UCO; a dual degree in English Studies and Primary Education; and, since the 2018/2019 academic year, a degree in Psychology, in response to great social demand. It also offers five official Master's Degrees: Inclusive Education, Research in Applied Psychology, General Health Psychology, Environmental Education, and Educational Centre and Programme Supervision, Evaluation and Management.

Most of our students have chosen these studies as their first options, so there is a strong vocational component involved, which is fundamental for our degree programmes, all of them focused on the development of people and improving their quality of life. Hence, excellence is sought in the education imparted, as we are aware of the social responsibility that their future professions imply. Our graduates must be professionals capable of interpreting a changing world, and aware of the scope of their actions to build a more just and egalitarian society.

We are a faculty committed to the values of inclusion, dedicated to equality between men and women, and to diversity. Likewise, the Faculty of Education Sciences is defined by its great cultural dynamism, with activities that promote training in transversal skills (volunteering, participation and cooperation for development) in addition to entrepreneurship, employability and international mobility.

One of the Faculty's hallmarks is the model developed in curricular practices for the degrees in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, a reference point for other Education Sciences departments. It is a model entailing a close connection with the Faculty of Education and the Faculty Centre, and great formative strength, as it makes possible a constant balance between theory and practice, and requires complex organization, since there are more than 1,300 students doing internships each year at more than 500 schools in Córdoba and across the province. This model has been transferred to the development of the Practicum for the Social Education degree, also with very positive results.