Official Master's Degree in Research in Communication and Journalism

Study guides

Master description

The programme has three parts: The compulsory module (15 ECTS), the optional modules (30 ECTS) and the master's dissertation (15 ECTS).

There are three optional specialisations:

• Communication Structure and Policies: Governments and communication. Business and finance conglomerates: Regulation and organisation of the media. Economics of communication.
• Communication Sciences and Knowledge Society: covering the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of communication sciences. Principal challenges in research. Methodologies, semiotic analysis and sociology of communication. Information and knowledge society.
• Cyberjournalism, Technology and Languages: Digital innovation in the media: formats, genres, platforms. Cyberjournalism and information society. Architecture of social participation through new media. New languages of journalism.

Course begins on

02/10/2017

Course ends on

13/07/2018

Study plan structure

Type	Credits
Compulsory	15
Optional	30
Master's dissertation	15
TOTAL	60

Specialisation - Communication Structure and Policies

Module title	Credits	Type
Methodology for Media Research and Innovation	15	COMPULSORY:
Master's dissertation	15	COMPULSORY:
Communication Structure and Policies	10	OPTIONAL*
Strategic and Applied Communication	10	OPTIONAL**
Communication and Cooperation for Development	10	Optional**
Public Sphere, Public Opinion and Mass Media	10	Optional**
Interdisciplinary Approach to Mass Media	10	OPTIONAL***
Cyberjournalism, Technology and Languages	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Cultural Diversity in the Face of Technological Convergence	10	OPTIONAL***
Cultural Representation Methods in the Information Society	10	OPTIONAL***
Genres and Formats in Television and Other Audiovisual Media	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Knowledge Societies	10	OPTIONAL***
Transformations of Journalism in a Postmodern Cultural Context	10	OPTIONAL***

* Compulsory specialisation module
** Optional specialisation modules
*** Optional general modules

Specialisation in Communication Sciences and Knowledge Society

Module title	Credits	Type
Methodology for Media Research and Innovation	15	COMPULSORY:
Master's dissertation	15	COMPULSORY:
Communication and Cultural Diversity in the Face of Technological Convergence	10	OPTIONAL*
Communication and Knowledge Society	10	OPTIONAL*
Interdisciplinary Approach to Mass Media	10	OPTIONAL**
Public Sphere, Public Opinion and Mass Media	10	OPTIONAL**
Cultural Representation Methods in the Information Society	10	OPTIONAL**
Cyberjournalism, Technology and Languages	10	OPTIONAL***
Strategic and Applied Communication	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Cooperation for Development	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication Structure and Policies	10	OPTIONAL***
Genres and Formats in Television and Other Audiovisual Media	10	OPTIONAL***
Transformations of Journalism in a Postmodern Cultural Context	10	OPTIONAL***

* Compulsory specialisation module
** Optional specialisation modules
*** Optional general modules

Specialisation in Cyberjournalism, Technology and languages

Module title	Credits	Type
Methodology for Media Research and Innovation	15	COMPULSORY:
Master's dissertation	15	COMPULSORY:
Cyberjournalism, Technology and Languages	10	OPTIONAL*
Genres and Formats in Television and Other Audiovisual Media	10	OPTIONAL**
Transformations of Journalism in a Postmodern Cultural Context	10	OPTIONAL**
Interdisciplinary Approach to Mass Media	10	OPTIONAL***
Strategic and Applied Communication	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Cooperation for Development	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Cultural Diversity in the Face of Technological Convergence	10	OPTIONAL***
Public Sphere, Public Opinion and Mass Media	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication Structure and Policies	10	OPTIONAL***
Cultural Representation Methods in the Information Society	10	OPTIONAL***
Communication and Knowledge Society	10	OPTIONAL***

* Compulsory specialisation module
** Optional specialisation modules
*** Optional general modules