PhD in Communication (International Program)

The general objective of the PhD in Communication is to train researchers who, from transdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, and open to the challenges of knowledge and the changing demands of their societies, are able to contribute to the creation of original knowledge and to the cutting-edge debate on the main topics in communication, and to promote the advancement of communicative reflection with a critical spirit, based on a broad and solid conceptual and methodological capital, which allows them to work in favor of fairer and more equitable societies. The PhD graduates will be able to: develop methodologies and perspectives specific to communication studies from a comparative and Ibero-American perspective to address research problems in critical dialogue with other disciplines of humanities and social sciences; promote critical thinking, analysis, and rigorous research in communication with the objective of influencing issues of the public agenda, right to information, media policies and reflection on media content; formulate knowledge and methodologies for the study and research of communication from a social and humanistic vision to investigate the nature of the problems of technological mediations of communication, social and cultural transformations and the urban communicative space in Ibero-America; AND solid theoretical bases in communication to contribute to the epistemological development of the diverse fields that make up the universe of communication itself.