The SPT degree puts an emphasis on:
- Improving analytical and interpretative skills through analysing politically and socially relevant meanings in texts and other media, and engaging with critical methodological approaches;
- Developing an awareness and diagnostic skills that allow for addressing the complex relationship between thinking and action;
- Building the resourcefulness and facilitating scholarly/intellectual capacity-building powers to address social and political problems and issues;
- Sharing an awareness and encouraging a more self-reflective approach vis-à-vis a purely practical-oriented political engagement or a propensity towards ideological politics;
- Encouraging political and social engagement by stressing the educational dimensions of citizenship and civic engagement.
- Fostering communication and presentations skills, orally and in writing;