CURRICULUM
The curricular structure of the Doctorate is organized over a period of eight academic semesters, following an in-person modality. The academic-research work is supported by its courses and curricular activities. Its study plan consists of a total of 240 credits (according to the UFRO format) or 257 credits (according to the UACh format) distributed over 4 academic years, during which students must complete courses and academic activities.
The Curriculum is organized into two (2) Types of Education: the first is Specialized Education SE and the second leads to the Academic Degree AD.
CURRICULAR FLOW
Semester I
Semester II
Semester III
Semester IV
Semester V
Semester VI
Semester VII
Semester VIII
MANDATORY COURSE SYLLABI
| Course | Syllabus |
|---|---|
| Thesis Progress I | Download |
| Thesis Progress II | Download |
| Thesis Progress III | Download |
| Communication and Culture I | Download |
| Communication and Culture II | Download |
| Foundations of Research in Communication and Culture | Download |
| Epistemological and Theoretical Foundations of Communication and Culture | Download |
| Research Methodology in Communication and Culture | Download |
| Thesis Proposal | Download |
| Research Seminar I | Download |
| Research Seminar II | Download |
| Research Unit | Download |
ELECTIVE COURSE SYLLABI
| Course | Syllabus |
|---|---|
| Adorno and the Cultural Industry | Download |
| Complex, Critical, and Argumentative Discourse Analysis: Foundations, Strategies, and Operationalization | Download |
| Content Analysis and News Framing | Download |
| Image Analysis and Visuality Discourses | Download |
| Approaches to the Communicational Field: Communication, Culture, and Power | Download |
| Communication, Society, and Technology in the Pandemic: An Introduction to Parasitology | Download |
| Body Politics: The Alteration of the Body Archive through Images | Download |
| Critique of the Enemy’s Reason | Download |
| Visual Culture and Scientific Knowledge | Download |
| From Theory to Methodology for Communication Research: Concepts and Tools for the Analysis of Informative Content in Convergent Environments | Download |
| Dialogues in Conflict: Historical Challenges of the Field of Communication | Download |
| Discourse and Social Movements: From Urban Space to Digital Space | Download |
| Ecology of Images | Download |
| The Thesis Writing and Editing Process | Download |
| The Civilization-Barbarism Topic and its Effects on the Peoples of the Americas | Download |
| Creative Writing for Scholars | Download |
| Ethnography for the Study of Discursive Spaces and Intersubjective Performances | Download |
| Intercultural Hermeneutics from an Intercultural Philosophy: Dialogue with Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Ludwig Wittgenstein | Download |
| History of Periodical Media, 19th and 20th Centuries | Download |
| Introduction to Early Cinema: Review of Pre-cinema and Appreciation of Silent Film | Download |
| Participatory Action Research | Download |
| Empirical Research and Publication Strategies in the Field of Cultural Representation of Marginality Studies | Download |
| Jürgen Habermas’s Ethics of Communicative Action | Download |
| The Critical Perspective in Communication: Practices, Theoretical Gaps, and Institutionalization | Download |
| Methodologies in Framing Analysis | Download |
| Cognitive Processes of Acquisition and Comprehension Sustaining Discourse | Download |
| Technical Processes and Data Analysis in Communication Research | Download |
| Planetary Scopic Regime | Download |
| Cultural Rhetoric, Translation, and Communication | Download |
| Seminar on Semiotics and Systems Theory | Download |
| Seminar on Applied Research Methodology | Download |
| Meaning, Communication, and Social Systems | Download |
| Sociologies of Crime and Violence in Latin America | Download |
| Scientific Writing Workshop | Download |
| Border Theories | Download |



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