Platform for the Promotion of Postgraduate Programs

This flagship program, which began in 1961 and has now completed twenty-six editions, has produced prominent figures from diverse spheres of national life. In recent years, the dual-exit option has been adopted, allowing students to choose between Master's or Specialist degrees. Currently, the following specializations are offered: Global Planning, Local Planning and Management, and Social Policy.

The Master's Degree in Development Planning, with a specialization in Global Planning, is a response from the Center for Development Studies to the need for training of fourth-level human resources, capable of addressing, through social intervention and research, the formulation of plans, the design and evaluation of development programs and projects, situations of: (a) complexity, uncertainty and conflict; (b) globalization, insertion and integration; (c) solidarity, productivity, quality and sustainability.
The term "Global Planning" reflects areas of social intervention at the macro level, with short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, and with strategic approaches to political, economic, and social systems. It also considers those spatial and sectoral aspects of a national nature linked to development planning.
All of this requires the analysis of theories and methods that allow us to discern the different possibilities for addressing these processes, as well as becoming familiar with the technologies and instruments that have been developed and that are the subject of study in global planning.
This mention of Global Planning responds to a specific demand from several institutions and takes up experiences made at CENDES, which will be updated in light of the problems of development in today's world.
Global planning, as part of the issues addressed by planning, is conceived as a field that must consider, from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, the holistic vision of development. Knowledge and action are intimately intertwined, and there is a constant challenge of confronting a future that requires systemic approaches, under a comprehensive and global perspective.
The Global Planning specialization has three central problem areas that cut across both teaching and research activities. These are: 1) the relationship between planning and society; 2) the theory and method of planning; and 3) the tools associated with planning.

OBJECTIVE:

The main objective of the Master's program is to provide students with quantitative and qualitative knowledge that will enable them to assume leadership roles in the practice of development planning and management, and in the field of university research and teaching.

Specific objectives:

- Develop research capabilities in the social field in order to achieve innovative proposals in planning as alternative solutions to current socio-economic problems.

- Develop the analytical capacity necessary to grasp the complexity of socio-economic problems and processes from a global planning perspective.

- Develop conceptual, methodological and instrumental planning skills necessary for understanding and intervening in social processes, taking into account the perspective of different social actors.

- To evaluate the main public policies, under the conditions that have prevailed in the country's economic and social events during recent years, as reference elements for new planning processes.

- To have human resources trained in the field of development planning capable of performing in university research activities.

This program aims to train planners with a comprehensive vision of the development process, capable of contributing to the production of knowledge about particular dimensions of reality and of formulating and implementing social intervention policies and plans.