Training Plan
Mandatory Training
MANDATORY CROSS-CUTTING
First year for full-time research trainees and first or second year for part-time students.
AF1. Advanced document search and management techniques applied to research (in Spanish)
AF2. Assessment and Evaluation of scientific production. (in Spanish)
P1. Preparation of doctoral dissertation. Context and text (in Spanish)
P2. Workshop on scientific articles (in Spanish)
P4. Training seminars on the theoretical foundations of communication (in Spanish)
P5. Seminar: Ethics in research and teaching (in Spanish)
MANDATORY SPECIFICS
Second or third year for full-time researchers-in-training and third or fourth year for part-time researchers-in-training.
P3. Attendance at congresses and presentation of communication or paper (in Spanish)
Mandatory Annual Activities
Mandatory for all students regardless of their year and dedication
AF5. Pre-doctoral day
P6. Work meetings with advisor/s
Training Complements
The Academic Committee of the doctoral program will determine the appropriate training complement (courses, research work) in each case as established in the VERIFICA Report:
- Epistemological issues related to the communication of media research.
- New forms of rhetoric and cultural mediation.
- Quantitative methods applied to mediated communication research.
- Qualitative methods applied to mediated communication research.
Optional Activities
AF3. Transfer of research results
AF4. Calls for research grants: competitive national and European projects
P7. Participation in the development of research projects in which the doctoral student is involved
P8. AAssistance managing final year or Master’s degree projects
P9. Assisting Editorial Committee of Doxa Comunicación.Magazine Editing
P10. Advanced Qualitative Methodology Course
P11. Advanced Quantitative Methodology Course
P12. Data processing course
Skills
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
– Comprehensive understanding of a field of study and mastery of related skills and research methods.
– Ability to devise, design, create, implement and adopt a significant process of research or development.
– Ability to push the limits knowledge through original research.
– Ability to analyze, assess, and synthesize new and complex ideas in a critical fashion.
– Ability to engage the academic and scientific communities, and society at large, with your fields of knowledge, through international scientific standards and languages
– Ability to promote, both academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic and cultural progress within the knowledge society.
PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIESS
– Coping in contexts where specific information is limited.
– Finding the key questions that must be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
– Designing, creating, developing, and undertaking new and innovative projects in your field of knowledge.
– Working both independently and as part of a larger team, in an international or multidisciplinary context.
– Integrating knowledge, dealing with complexity and forming opinions based on limited information.
– Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.
OTHER SKILLS
– Ability to develop a critical attitude towards the professional work of communication intermediaries in companies specializing in the processing of information and/or the promotion of the cultural industry.
– Ability to understand and master research methods applied to communication from a theoretical and practical perspective.
– Ability to analyze the social influence of the media and practical mastery of their uses.
– Ability to develop the specific skills and abilities of communication, information and advertising professionals.
– Ability to use the various traditional and online media in an advanced way.
– Ability to assess contents of audiovisual communication, advertising and journalism.
– Ability to understand the social and communicative changes brought about by the process of implementation of new technologies and the Internet.