Digital Media
Cycle
Terceiro ciclo
Degree
Doctorate
Coordinator
João Mário Grilo; Nuno Correia (FCT/UNL)
Opening date
September 2016
Vacancies
4
Fees
11 000/total = 2 750 /annual*4
Schedule
After work schedule (to be available at http://fcsh.unl.pt/escola-doutoral/doutoramentos)
Education objectives
The PhD Programme aims to train researchers, academics, and leaders in innovation processes in fundamental and applied areas of Digital Media, ensuring that Phds are prepared to exercise a profession, which consists, generally, the ability to :
- Create, produce and distribute digital media, taking into account the target audience and the whole value chain associated with the field;
- Manage creative teams and producers;
- Exercise a specialized professional activity in creative, production and content management organisations targeting their products for diverse fields, mass media, education, leisure, marketing, videogames and corporate broadcasting;
- Apply knowledge, solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments and multidisciplinary contexts, to develop studies of analysis and synthesis to develop research projects in scientific areas relevant stakeholders.
Access conditions
To be admitted to a doctoral programme of studies, the candidate should satisfy the conditions set forth in Portuguese legislation and in the normative conditions of UNL as well as fulfil at least one of the following requirements: a) Have a Masters degree, or a legal equivalent; b) Have a first cycle degree (licenciatura) and a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum which is recognised by the Programme Coordinators as testifying to the candidates ability to undertake this cycle of studies; c) Possess an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognised by the Programme Coordinators as testifying to the candidates ability to undertake this cycle of studies.
Degree pre-requisites
Length: 8 semesters. Total credits: 240 credits (60 from curricular units + 180 (150+30) credits from the non teaching component). Non teaching component modalities: Thesis. Number of credits as free-elective optionals: 22.5 credits. The free-elective seminars can be chosen among curricular units from the postgraduate training offered by the FCSH/NOVA, FCT/NOVA and Universidade do Porto or in other national or foreigner Higher Education institutions under agreement or protocol.
Access to other courses
A Doctorate is a final qualification.
This course is recognized for career progression purposes of recruitment for teachers of group 240 and 550, as provided in the Statute of Teaching Career
Evaluation rules
The study course leading to the doctoral degree includes the completion of a doctoral program that consists of curricular unit aimed at training for research; the realization of an original thesis, designed especially for this purpose, appropriate to the branch of knowledge or expertise. The seminar curricular units type are classified on a scale of 0-20. The final classification of the PhD course is expressed by approved or not approved formulas. In case of approval, the final classification of the PhD course is expressed in the range 10-20 on a scale of 0-20, doing the arithmetic average of the marks in which the curricular units with 10 ECTS. The final classification of the thesis is expressed by formulas approved or refused by justified nominal vote with no abstentions.
Structure
| Mandatory | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| 73223101 | História e Tendências dos Media Digitais (not translated) - 1st semester | 7,5 |
| 73223102 | Laboratório dos Media (not translated) - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223103 | Métodos de Investigação (not translated) - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223118 | Thesis Plan | 30 |
| 73223109 | Tecnologia dos Media (not translated) - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223106 | Teoria da Comunicação (not translated) - 1st semester | 7,5 |
| 73223119 | Thesis in Digital Media | 150 |
| Elective option 1 | ||
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| Options | ||
| 73223105 | Opção Livre I (not translated) | 7,5 |
| 73223114 | Opção Livre II (not translated) | 7,5 |
| 73223115 | Opção Livre III (not translated) | 7,5 |
| 73223116 | Seminar I | 7,5 |
| 73223117 | Seminar II | 7,5 |