Master in Journalism and Communication: New Trends in Production, Management and Dissemination of Knowledge

Completion requirements:

Compulsory: 21
Optional: 27
Master’s Final Project: 12
Total: 60

In this master's degree, students can choose between a research and a professional option. For the research option, they will have to take the subject: "Qualitative and quantitative research methods". For the professional option, they must take the subject "External internships".

Independently of the above, you can choose to take one of the two specialisations offered by the master's degree:

-Speciality in Ideation and creation of multimedia products.
-Specialisation in the development of information content and multimedia communication.

In summary, students will have the following options:

1) To choose between a research or professional pathway. A differentiation is established between the MFP to be carried out by students who opt for the research or professional orientation. Students who wish to specialise in both pathways will necessarily have to produce a Master's thesis for each of them.

2) To complete the master's degree without a specialisation, choosing freely from among all the optional subjects offered.

3) To complete the master's degree with a specialisation if they take optional subjects from one of the proposed specialisation modules. In this case, they will complement their academic training with optional credits that they can choose from the following:

-elective subjects common to all specialisations
-elective subjects linked to a different specialisation

Admission by academic record and curriculum vitae.

• Admission profile

  This master's degree is aimed at students who wish to broaden their knowledge in the field of information and/or communication, both for academic, scientific and professional purposes. The contents offered are a proposal with a balance between theory and practice, so they are adapted to the needs of students who wish to pursue a PhD in the field of information or communication, to engage in teaching and research, but are also useful for working professionals who want to expand or update their knowledge to meet the continuing challenges that arise today. The media are subject to a process of constant renewal and evolution, and the professionals who work in them need to be constantly updated to be aware of trends and adapt to the demands of the audience in the new information and communication contexts.

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  Completion requirements:

  Compulsory: 21
  Optional: 27
  Master’s Final Project: 12
  Total: 60

• Tutorial action and reception

  Los estudiantes matriculados en este máster contarán con apoyo académico y orientación desde el primer momento y durante todo el curso. A través de la figura de un orientador, que formará parte del cuadro de profesores del máster, los alumnos tendrán siempre una persona de referencia para todo tipo de consultas relacionadas con el título, desde gestiones administrativas hasta asesoramiento en los aspectos académicos.

  Además, para difundir o ampliar cualquier información que pueda resultar útil para los alumnos, el máster realizará una jornada de acogida al principio de cada edición para los alumnos de nuevo ingreso y aprovechará todos los recursos potenciales que ofrecen las nuevas tecnologías, entre ellos la creación de una página web propia del máster a través de la que se informará a los estudiantes de todas las novedades durante el periodo lectivo.

  La Comisión Académica asignará a principio de curso un tutor a cada estudiante, para mantener abierta una vía de comunicación permanente con los alumnos y asesorarlos en todas las cuestiones que necesiten, tanto las de carácter académico como las administrativas, facilitándoles información precisa para que puedan acudir de forma rápida y oportuna a los cauces necesarios para encontrar una solución a cualquier problema.

  El tutor también hará un seguimiento puntual de la evolución de los alumnos para comprobar que realizan el aprendizaje según lo previsto y, al mismo tiempo, localizar posibles dificultades académicas con la antelación suficiente para que puedan ser corregidas a tiempo y no influyan en el resultado final.

• Access

  Access

  Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

  1. As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
  2. Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institucion de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
  3. Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que os ditos títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

  Admission

  Modality: specific criteria

  Access Degrees:

  Preference 1: Degrees in the field of Communication Sciences: Journalism, Audiovisual Communication or Advertising and Public Relations.

  Preference 2: Other degrees in the field of Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities.

  students coming from degrees in the branches of Humanities and Social Sciences other than Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Advertising will have to take complementary courses.

  Admission criteria:

  -Academic record: 70%.
  -Research / professional curriculum: 30% (published academic or scientific work related to the contents of the master's degree and professional experience in the field of journalism and communication).

  It is advisable, although not compulsory, to have a minimum knowledge of English in order to, at least, correctly understand the bibliography and audiovisual products produced in that language, in accordance with level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Modality: specific criteria

Access Degrees:

Preference 1: Degrees in the field of Communication Sciences: Journalism, Audiovisual Communication or Advertising and Public Relations.

Preference 2: Other degrees in the field of Social and Legal Sciences or Humanities.

students coming from degrees in the branches of Humanities and Social Sciences other than Journalism, Audiovisual Communication and Advertising will have to take complementary courses.

Admission criteria:

-Academic record: 70%.
-Research / professional curriculum: 30% (published academic or scientific work related to the contents of the master's degree and professional experience in the field of journalism and communication).

It is advisable, although not compulsory, to have a minimum knowledge of English in order to, at least, correctly understand the bibliography and audiovisual products produced in that language, in accordance with level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

• Basic skills

  - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas —usually in a research context.

  - Students must know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their capacity of problem solving in new or uncommon surroundings. All of this, inside broader —or multidisciplinary— contexts associated with their study area.

  - Students must be able to integrate knowledge and confront the complexity of making judgements from information which could be incomplete and limited. This information must include reflections about social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their study areas’ knowledge and judgements.

  - Students must know how to clearly and unambiguously communicate their conclusions —and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them— to specialized and non-specialized public.

  - Students must possess learning abilities that will allow them to continue studying, in a way which would be largely self-directed and autonomous.

• Generic skills

  - Know the dynamics, products and supports for the production, management and dissemination of knowledge.
  - Detect, understand, interpret and apply new trends in journalism, in particular, and in communication, in general.
  - Analyse or execute the processes of production, management and dissemination of knowledge through informative content.
  - Know the structure of products for the network, the edition of multimedia products and network architecture and design.

• Specific skills

  - Know how to handle online databases and the creation and use of one's own documentary databases for the interpretation and analysis of data and their visual exploitation.
  - Analyse the new genres and languages of journalism and their use in the study and analysis of the consequences of the hybridisation of the media.
  - Manage information and communication in new formats and new media to narrate and transmit information.
  - Use content generation tools for online environments and tackle informative or communicative processes with the use of digital resources for the production of informative or informative content.
  - Deepen, investigate and contextualise the analysis and practical application of information and communication economies and the analysis and sustainability of changes in financing models.
  - Carry out scientific dissemination activities through publications in the area with proposals for articles based on the students' own research.
  - Develop a product or a real communication action and develop it.
  - Know the problems derived from intoxication and knowing how to carry out information literacy tasks.
  - Ability to apply appropriate criteria for the selection of useful content of social interest.

• Transversal skills

  - Develop and manage information content.
  - Devising and creating multimedia products.
  - Use multimedia and hypermedia communication technologies.
  - Plan and implement innovative communication strategies in democracy.

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programs are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programs (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):

Portal Internacional

Internships

Work placements in companies are scheduled at the end of the master's degree, after the laboratory subject of each speciality in which students will exercise in teams the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the master's degree. There will be 6 ECTS linked to the students of the professional option.

Due to the commitments acquired with companies and the long experience of the Faculty of Communication Sciences in making agreements with media, production companies and agencies for internships, an offer is foreseen that, despite being optional, guarantees that all students can carry out external internships in companies.

This master's degree includes the completion of a compulsory Master's Final Project equivalent to 12 ECTS credits that will be developed once all the programmed subjects have been taken.

For students with a professional profile, the dissertation must be a product or a case of real application of the contents of the master's degree.

For students with a research profile, the MFP must be a research project submitted as an academic project and in a version adapted to a scientific article ready to be submitted to one of the scientific journals of the Communication Area included in DICE (database of journals promoted by ANECA, CCHS and CSIC).

The Master's permanent teaching team listed below will be accompanied by guest lecturers who will provide students with case studies of the latest trends used in various international media. Among others, we were joined by professionals from The Telegraph, AlJazeera, correspondents from Cadena Ser in Washington, professors from foreign universities, and others.