Program Overview

Master's Degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching

The master's degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching provides teacher training for potential secondary school teachers and teachers of specific vocational training courses.

Specialisations

• Industrial Technologies
• Technology

General Details

• Duration and start date: 1 academic year, 60 ECTS credits, starting October
• Timetable and delivery: Mornings and afternoons, face-to-face
• Fees and grants: Approximate fees for the master's degree, excluding other costs (does not include non-teaching academic fees and issuing of the degree certificate): 1,061 (2,700 for non-EU residents)
• Language of instruction: Check the language of instruction for each subject in the course guide in the curriculum
• Location:
  • Barcelona School of Informatics (Campus Nord)
  • High Schools
• Official degree: Recorded in the Ministry of Education's degree register

Admission

• General requirements: Academic requirements for admission to master's degrees
• Places: 60 (technology specialisation) + 60 (vocational training specialisation)
• Pre-enrolment: Pre-enrolment for this master's degree is currently closed
• Enrolment: How to enrol
• Legalisation of foreign documents: All documents issued in non-EU countries must be legalised and bear the corresponding apostille

Curriculum

First Semester

• Complementary Technology Training 7
• Learning and Teaching Technology in Secondary Education I 7
• Learning, Behaviour and Personality Development 4
• Practicum I 4
• School Organisation: Educational Contexts and Participation 4
• Society, Family and Education 4

Second Semester

• Learning and Teaching Technology in Secondary Education II 8
• Practicum II 10
• Teaching Innovation and Introduction to Educational Research 6
• Master's Thesis 6

Professional Opportunities

• Professional opportunities: Secondary school teachers and teachers of specific vocational training courses
• Competencies:
  • Generic competencies: capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability and social commitment, knowledge of a foreign language (preferably English), teamwork and proper use of information resources
  • Specific competencies:
    • Learning the curricular content of the specialisation
    • Planning, implementing and assessing the teaching and learning process
    • Searching for information and using it
    • Setting the syllabus and developing teaching methods
    • Designing and developing learning environments
    • Acquiring strategies to stimulate student input
    • Learning about interaction and communication processes in the classroom
    • Designing and delivering formal and informal activities
    • Learning the regulations
    • Learning about the history of the profession
    • Informing and advising families

Quality Accreditation

Check the degree's main quality indicators in the University Studies in Catalonia portal of the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency

Organisation: Academic Calendar and Regulations

• UPC school: Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB)
• Academic coordinator: Maica Sanz
• Academic calendar: General academic calendar for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees courses
• Academic regulations: Academic regulations for master's degree courses at the UPC