INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

Area Law and Jurisprudence Academic Area

Specialization in Criminal Law

Vision

The Specialty in Criminal Law is an academic program registered in the National Graduate Register that graduates specialists in Criminal Law with great acceptance in the productive and institutional sectors; supported by a training based on quality, through the transmission and construction of knowledge by professors, who have national and international recognition and who constitute the Academic Body of Criminal Sciences.

Mission

The mission of the Specialty in Criminal Law is to train specialists with a solid academic and practical preparation for professional work, through knowledge, attitudes, fundamental human values and acquired skills; highly competitive in the world of work, which in the framework of creativity allows them to offer relevant solutions to specific problems.

Objectives:

General

To train specialists in criminal law for professional work, highly qualified for the rigorous and methodological handling of contemporary criminal dogma and the legal institutes in force in the Mexican State, which will allow them to construct and offer pertinent solutions to concrete problems.

Specific

  • To train specialists capable of identifying and solving specific problems in the field of Criminal Law.
  • To train specialists with creative, analytical, reflective and leadership skills to provide technical legal advice in criminal matters and strengthen the procurement and administration of criminal justice.
  • To practice the fundamental values of the human being and the legal values of the Mexican State.
Profile Profile:

Knowledge in the following branches of Mexican Law:Criminal Law.
  • Constitutional law.
  • Administrative Law.
  • Individual and Social Guarantees.
  • Amparo
  • Tax Law.
  • Criminal Procedural Law.
  • General Legal Culture: Introduction to the Study of Law, Theory of the State, Legal Methodology, Legal Deontology and Philosophy of Law.
  • Auxiliary disciplines of Criminal Law: Forensic Medicine, Criminalistics and Criminology.
  • Computer; Handling of basic word processing packages.
Skills:
  • Ability to concentrate.
  • Capacity for analysis and synthesis of readings, articles and texts in general, and of national regulations and jurisprudence.
  • Skill in the use of research methods and techniques.
  • Skill in discussion techniques.
  • Critical reasoning.
  • Reasoning and creativity in the solution of concrete legal problems.
  • Ability to express oneself correctly in writing.
  • Ability to face conflictive situations and solve theoretical and practical problems.
  • Ability to make pertinent and proactive decisions.
Attitudes:
  • Solid vocation of service to society and human beings.
  • Ethical sense of law that is linked to the specific activities of criminal law;
  • Permanent personal and professional improvement.
  • Interest in participating in activities related to their professional practice.
  • Interest in increasing their knowledge in Criminal-Legal Sciences.
  • Proactive student.
  • Interest in the behavior and structure of the socio-political and legal reality.
Values:
  • Respect for the established legal order and fundamental rights.
  • Honesty, loyalty and truthfulness in the exercise of their professional activity.
  • Ethical conduct in the exercise of their profession, especially when professional secrecy is involved.
  • That in their professional performance they seek the realization of the legal values of the Mexican State.

Plan of Studies

It is structured in two curricular areas (Criminal Law and Criminal Law Sciences), which are necessary for the formation of highly qualified Criminal Law Specialists for the rigorous and methodological handling of contemporary Criminal Dogmatic and the legal institutes in force in the Mexican State, allowing them to offer pertinent solutions to concrete problems.

Knowledge Structure

The curriculum is organized and structured to be completed in one year; it is made up of two curricular areas (criminal law and criminology and auxiliary sciences of criminal law) which are necessary to train highly qualified criminal law specialists for the rigorous and methodological management of contemporary criminal dogmatic and legal institutes in force in the Mexican State, which allows them to offer relevant solutions to specific problems; made up of 12 compulsory subjects totaling 540 hours taken in 30 effective weeks of class.

Program of Study

Curricular map of subjects by formative axes:

Sem. 01 02 03 04 05 06 Ht. Hp. Cr.
I Theory of Crime
I (3-0-6)		 Mexican Criminal Procedure I (1-2-4) Guarantees in Criminal Matters (2-1-5) Medicine Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics I (2-1-5) Criminology Applied Criminology (0-3-3) Projects Professional Terminals (1-2-4) 135 135 27
1 2 4 3
II Theory of Crime II (3-0-6) Mexican Criminal Procedure II (1-2-4) Amparo in Criminal Matters (1-2-4) Medicine Forensic and Criminalistics II
(1-2-4)		 Special Crimes (2-1-5) Special Criminal Proceedings (2-1-5) 150 120 28
285 255 55
  Criminal Law
  Axis of Criminal Sciences
Schedules:

Thursday and Friday from 16:00 to 22:00 hrs.
Saturdays from 8:00 to 14:00 hrs.


Requirements for admission, permanence, graduation and graduation and diploma requirements:

Requirements requirements:

In addition to those stipulated in CHAPTER V "ADMISSION AND REVALIDATION" of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies, the applicant must meet the following requirements:

  • To have a minimum grade point average of 8 (eight) in undergraduate studies.
  • Pass the entrance exam
  • Submit a letter of motivation
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Deliver to the School Control Department the official documentation established in its Regulations.

Requirements for permanence:

In accordance with the Postgraduate Regulations of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, CHAPTER VI "OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITY", Article 60, which reads as follows:

The maximum term to carry out a specialty program and obtain the diploma will be two school periods more than the time established to complete the study plan, having to cover the credits for subjects and present the terminal project of professional character.

The above, in correlation with the provisions of Articles 63, 64, 65 and 66, of the aforementioned ordinance, and other applicable university legislation.

The Study Plan of the Specialty in Criminal Law also establishes the following requirements:

  • Have a minimum of 80% attendance in each of the subjects of the Academic Program.
  • Non-attendance to the corresponding evaluation is considered equivalent to failing the subject and only in exceptional cases and prior analysis of the institutional Academic Body of the Academic Area of Law and Jurisprudence, pertinent to the program, a student may be authorized to take the exam he/she did not attend, as long as it is the first time and he/she is a student with an average higher than nine and his/her academic record is impeccable; and, temporarily within the limits established by the School Control Directorate.
Requirements for graduation:
  • In accordance with the provisions of Article 60 of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies: "The maximum term to complete a specialty program and obtain the diploma will be two more school periods than the time established to complete the study plan, having to cover the credits for subjects and present the terminal project of a professional nature".
  • Pass all the subjects of the Syllabus in a regular examination, with a grade of no less than eight in each of them;
  • To have completed the Study Program;
  • Submit to the Coordination of Graduate Studies of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities a terminal project of a professional nature;
  • Comply with other institutional regulations applicable to this area.

Requirements for obtaining the diploma:

Comply with the provisions of CHAPTER VII: ACCREDITATION AND GRADUATION, ARTICLE 67, of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies of the UAEH.

In order to obtain a specialty diploma, the student must:

  • I. Be registered in the corresponding specialty program
  • II. To have completed the respective program of studies.
  • III. Submit to the Coordination a terminal project of a professional nature, which demonstrates the student's ability to propose solutions to specific problems, which must be endorsed and signed by his/her tutor. In the case of medical specialties, it must comply with what is established in the program.
  • IV. In the case of students who at the beginning of the specialty do not have a degree, this will be granted simultaneously with the specialty diploma, and
  • V. Cover the established fees.

Costs: (Subject to variation)

Knowledge test: $ 800.00
For the academic program: $ 20,000.00 to be paid in 2 installments of 10,000.00 per semester.

Periodicity:

The Law Specialty Program opens each semester in January and July.

Via Contact us:

Principal Investigator: Mtro. Sergio José Correa García
E-mail: scorrea28@hotmail.com
Telephone: (01771) 7172000 Ext. 5420 y 5421
Address: Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Investigación de las Ciencias Sociales (CEDICSO XXI) Carretera Pachuca-Actopan, Km. 4.5 s/n, Colonia San Cayetano, Pachuca de Soto Hidalgo, C. P. 42160 (first floor). Tel. (01) (771) 71 72 000 Ext. 5420 y 5421