Platform for the Promotion of Postgraduate Programs
Central American Master's Degree in Social Sciences
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, El Salvador - FLACSO - El Salvador
General Information
Director: Carlos RamosModality: In‑person
Duration: 2 years in the Making
Website: http://www.flacso.org.sv/?q=node/86
Phone: (503) 22234360 - (503) 22451510
Academic program
The Central American Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences at FLACSO has graduated four master's students and two doctoral students. With the implementation of its fifth master's cohort, the program aims to strengthen the social sciences in Central America and support the development of a critical regional community that can respond to the challenges posed by the current sociopolitical dynamics of Central America. Its specific focus is democracy, governance, and human rights.
Democracy in the recent history of Central America presents itself as a socio-political opportunity, but at the same time, it unfolds in a fragmented and limited way, revealing the deep interrelationships between the political system, history, and the social foundations of the political changes that have occurred. This is the basis for governance that has improved in terms of its political management instruments, but is fragile due to its limited social and historical grounding. For governance to be properly considered democratic, it should be anchored in a policy and philosophy of realizing human rights, understood as substantial progress in the realization of political, cultural, economic, and social citizenship.
The most immediate context of democracy in Central America is the application of economic and social policies framed within the liberal paradigm.
Within this framework, processes of social exclusion and inequality persist, stemming from asymmetries in the distribution of power and the continuity of a polarized class structure, which is simultaneously undergoing constant redefinition due to the correlations between winners and losers generated by local and regional integration into the economic process. These new forms of exclusion rearticulate long-standing exclusions such as ethnic, gender, age, and migrant exclusion, among others. Accordingly, the diverse agendas that comprise a program for achieving social citizenship remain relevant, as do the individual, family, and collective actions originating from the social actors themselves, which seek to improve their situation or create new sociopolitical positions.
OBJECTIVES:
• Strengthening academic capacity in Central America, primarily in the region's public universities, through a process of training professors and researchers of high academic level.
• The training of specialists with scientific capacity and academic excellence, who are able to study and interpret, with creativity, depth and objectivity, the social and political processes of the region.
• The development of regional research that prioritizes a comparative perspective.
Democracy in the recent history of Central America presents itself as a socio-political opportunity, but at the same time, it unfolds in a fragmented and limited way, revealing the deep interrelationships between the political system, history, and the social foundations of the political changes that have occurred. This is the basis for governance that has improved in terms of its political management instruments, but is fragile due to its limited social and historical grounding. For governance to be properly considered democratic, it should be anchored in a policy and philosophy of realizing human rights, understood as substantial progress in the realization of political, cultural, economic, and social citizenship.
The most immediate context of democracy in Central America is the application of economic and social policies framed within the liberal paradigm.
Within this framework, processes of social exclusion and inequality persist, stemming from asymmetries in the distribution of power and the continuity of a polarized class structure, which is simultaneously undergoing constant redefinition due to the correlations between winners and losers generated by local and regional integration into the economic process. These new forms of exclusion rearticulate long-standing exclusions such as ethnic, gender, age, and migrant exclusion, among others. Accordingly, the diverse agendas that comprise a program for achieving social citizenship remain relevant, as do the individual, family, and collective actions originating from the social actors themselves, which seek to improve their situation or create new sociopolitical positions.
OBJECTIVES:
• Strengthening academic capacity in Central America, primarily in the region's public universities, through a process of training professors and researchers of high academic level.
• The training of specialists with scientific capacity and academic excellence, who are able to study and interpret, with creativity, depth and objectivity, the social and political processes of the region.
• The development of regional research that prioritizes a comparative perspective.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent university degree, preferably in a social science or humanities discipline. In the case of Costa Rica, a university bachelor's degree.
• Proof of courses and grades passed in the undergraduate program
• Reside in a Central American country (including Panama and Belize).
• Availability to dedicate yourself exclusively to the program.
• Completed registration form.
• Undergo the selection process in which the following will be evaluated:
- Resume with photocopies of certificates
- Three letters of recommendation
- Project profile within the lines of research proposed by FLACSO
- General knowledge exam on social sciences, statistics and English
- interview
• Proof of courses and grades passed in the undergraduate program
• Reside in a Central American country (including Panama and Belize).
• Availability to dedicate yourself exclusively to the program.
• Completed registration form.
• Undergo the selection process in which the following will be evaluated:
- Resume with photocopies of certificates
- Three letters of recommendation
- Project profile within the lines of research proposed by FLACSO
- General knowledge exam on social sciences, statistics and English
- interview
