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As has become customary, the University of Navarra's Master's Degree research in Social Sciences (MICS) has chosen internationally renowned professors to teach several subjects in the academic curriculum. During the 2019-2020 academic year, the MICS will have a total of nine guest professors from the United States, England and Italy, in addition to Spain.

Iain Wilkinson, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent (UK), will offer the subject 'Classic diagnoses of the modernization process and their contemporary revision' from October 21 to 25.

In November,Laura Bovone, from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Italy) will visit Master's Degree . She will give classes on the 'Communicative Turn of Contemporary Sociology', first from 12 to 15 and then from 26 to 28.

At the beginning of the second semester, the week of January 13 to 17, we will count with Miguel Del Fresnofrom the Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia (UNED), as professor of 'research social on the Internet: Netnography and Social Network Analysis'.

Theory and sociology of culture' is taught by professors Emanuela Mora, from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Italy), and Richard Madsen, from the University of California-San Diego (USA). Mora will visit the University of Navarra from January 24 to 28, while Madsen will visit from February 27 to March 6.

That same month students will participate in subject 'Social Ontology and epistemology of theory and social sciences' offered by researchers Pierpaolo Donati, professor at the University of Bologna (Italy), and Margaret Archer, who, in addition to being Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick (UK), received the distinction of 'honorary doctor' by the University of Navarra last June 2019. They will teach from March 23 to 27 and on March 30 and 31 respectively.

In addition, the students of pathway of Education and Psychology will have two guest lecturers during the second semester. Between February 17 and 21, Luis Lizasoáin, professor at the University of the Basque Country, will give classes on 'Synthesis of the results of research'. In March, framework Gemignani, from Loyola Andalucía University, will give a lecture on 'research for understanding, change, innovation and quality'.

An interdisciplinary Master's Degree

The Master's Degree at research in Social Sciences is based on the more than fifty years of experience that the University of Navarra has in the interdisciplinary training of researchers both in the field of social sciences and in other scientific fields.

The MICS is coordinated by the Institute for Culture and Societythe research center in Humanities and social sciences of the University, and has the partnership direct from the School of Communication, the School of Education and Psychology andSchool of Philosophy and Letters. In this way, students can specialise in five thematic itineraries: Linguistics, Geodemography, Communication, Education and Psychology and Social and Cultural History.