The master's degree is a training space oriented to the agendas of economic development, and its challenges, both at the national level and in its articulation with a regional agenda. It is proposed, in the macro of the multiplicity of existing approaches, to provide knowledge that allows knowing and contrasting different economic visions and debates in aspects such as the role of the state and its policy instruments, as well as the different productive, commercial, and financial strategies national and regional integration. It does so from a multidisciplinary approach and especially from a theoretical-practical nature, from delving into specific historical experiences and reflecting on their results. Within this framework, the following objectives are proposed: Contribute to the training of high-level resources with capacities to apply the theoretical and empirical knowledge acquired for the development of activities for the design, planning, management, and evaluation of policies, programs, and actions aimed at promoting economic development at the regional level. Provide methodologies, techniques, and tools of inquiry and quantitative and qualitative for the analysis of economic development processes in the region, through the performance of comparative studies, diagnoses, and evaluation of policies, programs, and projects. Consolidate an academic space for exchange and reflection on the challenges of economic development in the regional context that contributes to the postgraduate training of professionals prepared for the design of public policy strategies for development. To train in the knowledge of the main theories, concepts, and relationships necessary to understand and analyze the problems of economic development, from a historical and critical perspective.

Objectives of the Master: The general objective of the Master is to offer a space of academic excellence that responds to the need for training related to the design, planning, and evaluation of public policies, from an approach that considers gender inequalities and dissidence. Its specific objectives are: Reflect on current debates on feminisms, their demands, and forms of organization. To train in the knowledge of the main theories and concepts to analyze public policies in the fields of health and work, in dialogue with the critical knots of feminism. Manage spaces for integration between knowledge productions arising from the territory, activism, and academia related to health and work problems. Provide the necessary tools for the insertion of graduates in different professional activities related to the management of social problems, both from the governmental and non-governmental spheres.

The Specialization in University Teaching was created by Rectoral Resolution No. 229/16, and validated by Resolution of the Superior Council No. 66/16. It has provisional official recognition by Resolution-2018-127-APN-MECCYT and accreditation by the National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU) by Act No. 471/17. This postgraduate degree is the first accredited at UNPAZ. Teacher training must be located in the broader context of institutional policy, as well as the academic policies of a university institution. In this sense, the Specialization seeks to generate spaces for reflection and construction of critical and diverse knowledge about policies and university education, in a complex and heterogeneous institution and promoting the search for common frameworks that allow articulating central objectives that, in the case of The National University of José Clemente Paz, suppose to offer formative proposals related to the needs of the town that sustains it, with academic quality and social inclusion, responding to the current educational policies for the sector. The Specialization in University Teaching contributes to the professionalization of university teaching and affects the improvement of teaching practices and teaching processes, as it enables the articulation of various pedagogical practices and discourses that are reflected from different disciplinary fields within the National University of José Clemente Paz. It will favor the identification of emerging problems in the field of university education, as it makes available a series of methodological devices and strategies, which, framed in the uniqueness of each situation, will allow teachers to produce solutions in a context of reflection. in and on the action.