INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Law and Jurisprudence Academic Area

Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences

 

Vision

The Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences is an academic program highly demanded by the academic and professional community of the State of Hidalgo, which graduates Masters in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, and that have a great acceptance in the public and private sectors. Its high level is endorsed by an education based on the principles of quality, relevance and excellence, through the transmission and construction of knowledge carried out by the Academic Body of Criminal Sciences, whose members are nationally and internationally recognized.

MISSION

To train teachers with a solid theoretical and practical preparation in the legal-criminal area, through the transmission of highly specialized knowledge, leadership attitudes, and fundamental values of the human being that allow them to act as honest, transparent, professional and committed to society legal operators.

OBJECTIVES

GENERAL

To train masters in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, highly qualified for professional work within the public or private sector, who possess a highly refined work system that enables them to deal rigorously with criminal legal dogmatics, criminal procedure, and the execution of sentences in this field.

SPECIFIC

Graduates of the Master's program in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences will be able to:

• Argumentation and rhetoric skills
• Critical reasoning
• Reasoning and creativity in solving factual problems.
• Ability to express oneself correctly in writing
• Ability to face conflictive situations and solve theoretical and practical problems.
• Decision-making capacity.

ATTITUDES

• Solid vocation of service to society and human beings;
• Ethical conception of law, linked to the specific activities of criminal-legal science;
• Desire for permanent personal and professional improvement;
• Interest in participating in activities related to professional practice;
• Interest in increasing their knowledge in Criminal Law Sciences;
• Interest in the behavior, structure and development of the social, political and legal reality of the State and its Nation.

VALUES

• Respect for the established legal order and the fundamental rights of individuals.
• Honesty, loyalty and transparency in the exercise of their professional activity.
• Ethics in the practice of the profession and
• Search for the updating and operationalization of the legal values enshrined in the General Constitution of the Republic.

PROFILE OF GRADUATION

The Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences will have a specialized methodological capacity to apply, in any field, his knowledge in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, thus strengthening the areas of state and national criminal justice administration and administration.

Likewise, he/she will possess a high degree of legal-criminal knowledge that will allow him/her to consolidate as a professional in any area of the practice of Criminal Law, always striving for the respect of the fundamental values of the human being and the legal values of the Mexican State.

FLEXIBILITY

Due to its strictly professionalizing approach, its flexibility is not possible. In addition, the study program does not contemplate different study paths, but only one and very precisely marked by the student's graduation profile, which is none other than the creation of true professionals in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences. Therefore, the only direction that the Master's program in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences can have is none other than that of the criminal-legal science and its auxiliary disciplines.

SYLLABUS

In order for the Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences curriculum to maintain congruence with the needs of the sectors in which the Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences is intended to be inserted, it is necessary for this proposal to include:

KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURE

The curriculum is organized and structured to be taken in four semesters (two years). It comprises six major areas of legal-criminal knowledge, which are:

• Constitutional guarantees, amparo and international regime in criminal matters
• Mexican criminal procedure
• Criminal-legal dogmatics
• Criminology, sociology and criminal policy
• Criminalistics, crime prevention and enforcement of penalties and security measures; and
• Methodology of legal work

The aforementioned curricular areas are indispensable for the adequate training that the Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences requires to obtain the knowledge and skills that will allow him/her to be an indispensable factor for social development in criminal law.

The aforementioned areas comprise 24 subjects, all of which are compulsory courses, representing a grand total of 1160 teaching hours, distributed in courses of 40 hours/week/semester, with the exception of the seminars, which consist of 20 hours.

CURRICULUM MAP

SCHEDULE:

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

REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRY, STAYING, GRADUATION, DEGREE AND DEGREE GRADUATION:

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO THE PROGRAM:

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

• Pass the admission exam;
• Accredit the evaluation of basic English language skills through the mechanisms of the Self-Access Center;
• To appear for an interview before the Admissions Committee of the program;
• Submit a letter of motivation;
• Curriculum Vitae;
• To have a law degree or a letter of professional examination, and to have completed undergraduate studies with a minimum grade point average of 8 (eight); and To submit to the School Control Department the official documentation established in its Regulations.

In any case, the Admission Committee of the Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, will have the power to determine the final admission or rejection of students applying for admission to the program, taking into account the importance and sufficiency in the accreditation of the above entry requirements, or any other circumstance that it determines to be susceptible of consideration. Requirements for permanence in the program: In accordance with the provisions of the Regulations for Graduate Studies of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, CHAPTER VI "OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITY", Article 61, which to the letter states:
"The maximum term to carry out a Master's program shall be two more school periods of the duration of the program, within which the degree examination shall be presented".
The above, in correlation with the provisions of Articles 63, 65 and 66 of the aforementioned regulations and other applicable provisions of the university legislation.
The Study Plan of the Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences also establishes the following requirements for the accreditation of subjects:

• To have a minimum of 80 percent attendance in each of the subjects of the Academic Program.
• Failure to take the corresponding evaluation is considered equivalent to not accrediting the course, and only in exceptional cases and after analysis by the Academic Body of the Academic Area of Law and Jurisprudence, a student may be authorized to take the exam he/she did not attend, provided that:
• It is the first time;
• A student with an overall average higher than 9 (nine) in the rest of the program;
• A substantial academic record; and
• The performance of the extemporaneous exam may be feasible within the limits established by the Directorate of School Control.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION:

In accordance with the provisions of Article 61 of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies:

"The maximum term to complete a Master's program shall be two more school terms than the duration of the program, within which the degree examination shall be presented."

Therefore, during said term, all the subjects of the Study Plan must be passed in a regular examination, with a grade of no less than 8 (eight) in each of them * in addition:

• Completion of 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 with the characteristics indicated in the Study Plan and pass the degree exam *** y
• Comply with other institutional regulations applicable to this area.

* Article 64 of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.

** Article 68 section II of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies, cit.

*** Article 68 section IV of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies, cit.

REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREE ELIGIBILITY AND GRADUATION:

The requirements for graduation and obtaining the master's degree are basically contained in Article 68 of Chapter VII, "Accreditation and Graduation", of the General Regulations for Graduate Studies of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo). Thus, in order to graduate and obtain the degree of master, the student must:

• Be registered in the corresponding master's degree program;
• Have completed the respective master's degree program;
• To have developed a terminal project, with the characteristics indicated in these regulations,
• Have presented a thesis or terminal project of a professional nature.
• Have passed the degree examination; and
• Processing of the total certificate of postgraduate studies (master's degree)
• INTEGRATE FILE
• 1. Photocopy of birth certificate(recently issued, verify that it is perfectly legible and that it has the seal and complete signature of the Civil Registry, if your original is legal size, ask for your photocopy as a reduction to letter size).
• 2. CURP printed from the RENAPO portal. Enter and print here.

• § Legible letter size copy of both sides of the professional bachelor's degree.
• § Legible copy of both sides of the professional license.
• § Legible copy of the total certificate of master's degree studies
• 3. Donation of bibliographic material at the Central Library (the date of donation should not exceed six months).
• NOTE: Go to the Central Library to be released in the system, for further information call ext. 6772 or visit Directorate of Libraries and Information Centers.
• Pay the established fees. The time period for obtaining the degree must be that specifically indicated in Article 61 of the Regulations for Graduate Studies.
• 5. Application form for the issuance of a cédula (printed ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SHEET, filled out with your PERSONAL INFORMATION and signed on BOTH SIDES, READ CAREFULLY THE FILLING INSTRUCTIONS, if you have doubts leave the fields blank and ask the person who is integrating your file).
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• NOTE: Foreign graduates can only request the process of issuing a master's degree since the UAEH cannot manage your professional registration process (cédula), for this purpose you will have to do the paperwork in person at the Dirección General de Profesiones in Mexico City. For more information click here.

 

6. White envelope of 9 x 16 centimeters (for letter) with the following data printed or typed:

• 1. Name.
• 2. Account number.
• 3. Master's degree or Doctorate.
• 4. Name of the Institute.
• 5. Telephone (home or office).
• 6. Cell phone.
• 7. E-mail (required).
• 7. Recent photographs with the following characteristics:
• 1. Black and white.
• 2. Printed on matte paper, adherent with retouching.
• 3. White background.
• 4. Made in a photographic studio (not snapshots).
• 5. They must correspond to the same photographic session (identical).
• 6. Be sharp in its development, allowing to see clearly the physical features of the person concerned and their clothing.
• 7. Formal wear:
• - Gentlemen: White shirt, dark jacket and tie.
• - Ladies: White blouse with sport collar, dark jacket and discreet accessories, discreet hairstyle with little volume so that forehead, ears and clothing are perfectly noticeable.
• 8. Without glasses.
• 9. Remove piercings.
• 10. Gentlemen should refrain from wearing a beard and/or mustache so that ears, nose and mouth are clearly visible.
• 11. Forehead and ears uncovered.
• 12. Indispensable to write on the back of ALL photographs the name and the Master's or Doctorate using only black ink pen, please do not use gel ink. do not use gel ink.

• It is suggested to verify the quality of the paper, since sometimes the tone of the paper gives the appearance that the photographs are very old.

 

• Number of photographs required:
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• a. 3 title size.
• b. 3 oval size.
• c. 4 child size.

 

CONTACT US

Ivonne Bautista Velázquez, Esq.
Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Law.
E-mail: derech_icshu@uaeh.edu.mx
Telephone: (01 771) 71 72 000 ext. 4212 y 4214
Address: ICSHU Carretera Pachuca-Actopan, Km. 4, C.P. 42160

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