MSc in Environmental Health Sciences 24 months Postgraduate Programme By Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

236 USDTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Environmental SciencesMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Master's Degree in Environmental Health Sciences is the first Network Master's Degree of the University of Guadalajara. It is developed jointly between the University Center for Biological and Agricultural Sciences (CUCBA) and the University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS) under postgraduate coordination. It began in 1995 with the support of the Pan American Center for Human Ecology and Health, of the Pan American Health Organization (ECO-OPS).


It is currently a postgraduate with quality registration in the National Quality Postgraduate Program (PNPC). Consolidated level.


This postgraduate course has an interdisciplinary training model that addresses the health of human communities and ecosystems, as complex and dynamic systems. Analyzes the interactions of communities, recognizes stress and degradation factors as unbalancing mechanisms of ecosystems and landscapes, health, quality of life and sustainable development. It generates knowledge and proposals to slow down the trend of degradation, prevent and control threats to human health and restore the conditions that maintain balance and give certainty to communities and territories to make them habitable and sustainable.


The Program trains researchers with an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological vanguard perspective, with a high social commitment, who critically incorporate recent advances in the field worldwide, while opening spaces for the study of regional perspectives and experiences that represent creative and consistent responses. to the environmental reality and social contexts.


It is a two-year program that requires the dedication of students from 30 to 35 hours. a week.


The Coordination of the program is shared between the CUCS and the CUCBA. Activities related to the administrative management of program students are concentrated in the latter, and the General Coordination corresponds to CUCS, which is shared with a coordinator from CUCBA.


The academic activities are developed with the participation of academic staff from four university centers of the Jalisco University Network and invited external professors. Students go to the CUCS and CUCBA facilities for the development of curricular courses.


The annual work plan is established according to the priorities defined by the Academic Board, the highest planning and decision-making body.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Environmental Sciences

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The Master's Degree in Environmental Health Sciences is the first Network Master's Degree of the University of Guadalajara. It is developed jointly between the University Center for Biological and Agricultural Sciences (CUCBA) and the University Center for Health Sciences (CUCS) under postgraduate coordination. It began in 1995 with the support of the Pan American Center for Human Ecology and Health, of the Pan American Health Organization (ECO-OPS).


It is currently a postgraduate with quality registration in the National Quality Postgraduate Program (PNPC). Consolidated level.


This postgraduate course has an interdisciplinary training model that addresses the health of human communities and ecosystems, as complex and dynamic systems. Analyzes the interactions of communities, recognizes stress and degradation factors as unbalancing mechanisms of ecosystems and landscapes, health, quality of life and sustainable development. It generates knowledge and proposals to slow down the trend of degradation, prevent and control threats to human health and restore the conditions that maintain balance and give certainty to communities and territories to make them habitable and sustainable.


The Program trains researchers with an interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological vanguard perspective, with a high social commitment, who critically incorporate recent advances in the field worldwide, while opening spaces for the study of regional perspectives and experiences that represent creative and consistent responses. to the environmental reality and social contexts.


It is a two-year program that requires the dedication of students from 30 to 35 hours. a week.


The Coordination of the program is shared between the CUCS and the CUCBA. Activities related to the administrative management of program students are concentrated in the latter, and the General Coordination corresponds to CUCS, which is shared with a coordinator from CUCBA.


The academic activities are developed with the participation of academic staff from four university centers of the Jalisco University Network and invited external professors. Students go to the CUCS and CUCBA facilities for the development of curricular courses.


The annual work plan is established according to the priorities defined by the Academic Board, the highest planning and decision-making body.

Admission Requirements

  • Have a bachelor's degree or graduation certificate.
  • Accredit a minimum average of eighty, with an original certificate or a comparable document, of the previous studies.
  • Take and pass the reading-comprehension test for at least one foreign language.
  • Letter of explanation of reasons to study the program.
  • In the case of foreigners, have the corresponding immigration authorization.
  • Letter that expresses the motivations and previous experience towards science.
  • Skills and abilities for mathematical creative and logical thinking.
  • Participation in events that promote young talent towards science (conferences, scientific research summers, academic stays, etc.).
  • Previous experience in research (degree through thesis, participation in research projects, academic mobility and publication of scientific articles).
  • Pass the preparatory course.
  • Those additional ones that the call establishes and that are defined by the Academic Board of the Program based on academic and quality criteria.

2 Years
Aug

  • Candidates are required to submit an essay(s) for acceptance

Tuition fees

Domestic
236 USD
International
236 USD

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