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Doctoral Program in Humanities: Language and Culture

Coordinator and academic commission

President

Prof. D. José Bernardo San Juan CV

Vowels

  • Prof. D. Felix Labrador Arroyo  CV
  • Prof. D. Agustín Martínez Peláez CV
  • Prof. Gonzalo Viñuales Ferreiro
  • Prof. Isabel Maria Pascual Sastre

Research lines

  • Language and Culture.

Presentation and competitions

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The Doctoral Program in Humanities: Language and Culture of the Rey Juan Carlos University takes into account the new bases of the Revised Agenda of Lisbon, as well as the construction of the European Research Area (ERA) and the objectives set for it in the Green Paper 2007. We have understood that the Doctorate must play a fundamental role as an intersection between the EHEA and the ERA, fundamental pillars of the knowledge society. The research that is promoted from this program breaks with theoretical, independent and localist positions, outside the development of society, to promote knowledge applicable to the cultural and even economic development of a society based on knowledge.

Hence our commitment that research in the Humanities be integrated naturally and relevantly with the rest of the areas of higher university education, giving value to mobility, both in the doctoral and postdoctoral stages, since it is understood as an essential piece in training. of young researchers. One of our challenges within the EEI is to prepare doctors who are integrated as main actors of society in the generation, transfer and adaptation of R&D&i and its application in pursuit of social, economic and academic improvements in their environment, and that they play an essential role in all the institutions involved in innovation and research, so that they lead the transfer from knowledge to the welfare of society in all its areas. Along these lines, one of the aims of this doctoral program is to foster R&D&i linked to innovation in knowledge management and its application in society.

The need for doctoral training for graduates in degrees related to the Humanities must be defended both in the academic and professional spheres, where the need to continue researching and advancing in knowledge, techniques and methods is confirmed, and this doctoral training supposes the main way of training researchers.

The Rey Juan Carlos University proposes the Doctoral Program in Humanities to provide and offer doctoral training that contributes, on the one hand, to promoting the training of people with competence in research and innovation in Humanities and, on the other, to advance, through of research, in response to the needs of society within the framework of an integrating program, whose structure and organization allow both specialization, updating and diversification of training, research and transfer in the field of the Humanities.

Within the Doctoral Program in Humanities, the different lines of research will be developed in accordance with the requirements established in the current legislation and in the regulations of the URJC, contrasting the experience and research proficiency, and the existence of competitive projects. The line to which the doctoral student will be assigned will be determined by the access requirements and the subject of the thesis project. Each line of research, in turn, will define, without exclusion, the main topics for the development of the doctoral theses, based on the existing groups and the research experience of the assigned tutors and directors.

The Rey Juan Carlos University proposes with this Doctorate Program:

  • Train new researchers and prepare teams that contribute to social, scientific and economic progress.
  • Promote teacher training in related disciplines.
  • Specialize postgraduate students interested in their professional, scientific and technical development and training throughout their professional life.
  • Promote the creation of national and international research groups and networks, as well as the search for and consolidation of interdisciplinary research groups.

Objectives

The general objectives of the Doctoral Program of the Rey Juan Carlos University will be, at least the following:

  • Encourage and deepen knowledge and professional, scientific and technical development of doctoral students in the field in question.
  • Train new researchers capable of joining research teams.
  • Promote the teaching career, deepening the research training of future teachers.
  • The specialization of the student within the corresponding field, especially in its research aspect.
  • Provide methodological instruments from which to approach the analysis of theory and practice from an interdisciplinary perspective, and provide basic criteria from which to face practical questions, in the different areas in which they arise.
  • Have an adequate framework for the achievement and transmission of scientific advances.
  • Train doctoral students so that they can play an essential role in public or private institutions involved in innovation and research, so that they can lead the transfer from knowledge to the welfare of society.

In short, this Doctoral Program at the Rey Juan Carlos University aims to train new doctors endowed with a critical scientific spirit and capacity for research and teamwork, through teaching organized in two areas: one general –technical and research methods, tools and resources for it–; and another specialization, typical of the different lines of specialization and consolidated research topics that are developed in it.

Competences

Basic skills

  • Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
  • Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages ​​commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

Personal abilities and skills

  • Get along in contexts in which there is little specific information.
  • Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • Work both as a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • The criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.

Other Competencies

  • Integrate scientific advances in Humanities within a culture of peace and democratic values.
  • Master the research techniques of linguistics, comparative literature, history, archaeology, pedagogy, philosophy, ethics, humanistic knowledge integrated in the program.
  • Know how to approach problems from an interdisciplinary and complex perspective, which can combine different points of view and theoretical attitudes within the Humanities.
  • Collaborate with interdisciplinary research teams in the field of Humanities.
  • Investigate within interdisciplinary teams with respect to fundamental rights, equal opportunities between men and women and universal accessibility for people with disabilities.

academic staff

Access and admission

Program Admission Criteria

The Academic Committee, in addition to the general requirements of the Program and the characteristics detailed in the "Access Profile" set out in the Annual Report, will meet the following criteria:

ASSESSMENT AND SELECTION CRITERIA

SPECIFIC WEIGHT

Curriculum profile of previous studies according to the Title of the Program and its categorization according to ISCED (interpretation and translation, linguistics, comparative literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, ethics)

40%

Academic record and level of recognition of the institution of origin

30%

Relevant and accredited professional and research experience within the lines of research included in the doctoral program

20%

Any activity, merit or documented recognition that the student contributes and that serves to assess said professional and research experience.

10%

 

For this doctoral program there is no type of special entrance test that the applicant must take.

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program reserves, however, the possibility of requesting a personal interview to verify the degree of compliance with the general and specific requirements of the program, the characteristics defined in the access profile, the requirements related to the Minimum level of Spanish language, in the case of non-Spanish speaking students (level C2) and of foreign language (level B1 or higher, according to the requirements of the research).

Number of new admission places

30 places

Quality guarantee

ANECA verification report

verified memory

Verification Resolution Council of Universities

RUCT link

BOCM Link

Results report

Once the follow-up of the Doctorate Program has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information is shown on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree, differentiated by academic year.

Report by academic year:

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are being carried out as part of the general information collection plan:

    • Survey addressed to new students of doctoral programs
    • Doctoral student satisfaction survey with the doctoral program
    • Satisfaction surveys of the doctoral student with the training activities of the doctoral program
    • Assessment surveys of supervisors and thesis tutors
    • Faculty satisfaction survey with the doctoral program

Survey results:

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”

Collaboration Agreements

  • Collaboration Agreement with the State Agency Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC).
  • General Academic Collaboration Agreement with the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees.
  • Collaboration Agreement with Banco Santander SA for the promotion of Academic Activities.
  • Specific Educational Cooperation Agreement with the Carolina Foundation.
  • Collaboration Agreement with the Camilo José Cela University.