Regional and Local development

Diploma of pre-degree Speciality on Regional and Local Development

What is the university degree in Speciality on Regional and Local Development? 

The aim of this own university degree is to recognize the specific education of the students of geography on Regional and Local Development and also to certificate their knowledge and abilities in this area.

Educational profile:

• Studies and regional and local analyses
• Criteria, methods and regionalization series 
• Factors and processes to articulators of regional places
• Knowledge on different regional fields 
• Geopolitics and geostrategy
• Inequalities and territorial imbalances 
• Regional and Local development models
• Methodologies and territorial development instruments 

The figure of the geographer is represented as an specialist connoisseur of particular territories, in regional and local fields, from a multidimensional point of view. Professionals have the aim to provide activities to improve the levels of territorial development. 

Professional activities:

• Local development agents
• Technicians on economic promotion and sectorial planification 
• Agents of european programs 
• Promoters of tourist development
• Agents of the cultural and historical heritage 
• Tourist promotion
• Analysis of international relationships among enterprises 
• Foreign trade 
• Specialists on geopolitics linked with official organisms 
• NGO advisers with international presence 
• and so on.

How to obtain the diploma?

The student has to pass a total of 60 credits to choose among main, compulsory and optative subjects from the following itinerary. From the total of credits, 30 will correspond to optative subjects. 

Itinerary to obtain the Diploma in Speciality on Regional and Local Development