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Doctoral Program in Communication

General Aims
Doctorate Structure
Lines of Research
Doctoral Thesis Directors
Admission
Contact
Departament in charge of the management of the doctoral programme
Collaborating departments

General Aims of the Doctorate

The main aim of the doctorate is to produce doctors for high quality and advanced research. To this end, the general aims of the course are the following:

To broaden their skills so that they can specialize in different aspects of the lines of research set out in the programme.
To strengthen students' initiative in developing research projects with a methodology and scientific principles appropriate to their field of research.
To foster general individual and team working abilities, participation in research projects, bibliographical database management, etc.
To provide the knowledge and skills necessary for the completation of the doctoral thesis.

Structure of Doctorate

The formation period of the doctorate programme is linked to the following Master's degree introduced on the University (in order to the RD 1393/2007):

Political, Institutional and Corporative Communication in Crisis and Risk Environments

Research Lines and Directors of Doctoral Theses

Research lines:

Communication of risk

Communication and tourism

Political communication

Communication and cultural identity

Communication and genre

Political economy of the communication

Strategic management of the corporative communication and public relationships

Sports, culture and society

Studies on cinema and audiovisual

Thesis directors: (Dept. of Communication Studies)

Dr. Aranzazu María Capdevila Gómez

Dr. Vicente-Paul Capriotti Peri

Dr. Enric Castelló Cogollos

Dr. José Francisco Cerdán Los Arcos

Dr. David Domingo Santamaria

Dr. Jordi Farré Coma

Dr. María Asunción Huertas Roig

Dr. Bernat López López

Dr. Laia Quílez Esteve

Dr. Iolanda Tortajada Giménez

Dr. Catalina Matilla Serrano

Dr. Mª del Mar Gutiérrez-Colón Plana (Dpt. English and German Studies)

Admission

Maximum number of students: 20
Criteria for admission and selection:

The fulfilment of the established conditions, as a requirement of admission in the 19th article and the 4th addicional order of the RD 1393/2007, is necessary to be able to entry at the Doctorate Program while its research mode.

Specific criteria:

CV and personal interview