PhD in Digital Media
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.
General characterization
DGES code
1033
Cicle
PhD (3rd Cycle)
Degree
Doctorate
Access to other programs
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
Coordinator
João Mário Grilo; Vice-coordenador: Prof. Doutor Paulo Nuno Vicente
Opening date
September 2019
Vacancies
4
Fees
More information provided in the Call for Applications, available on www.fcsh.unl.pt
Schedule
(to be available at http://fcsh.unl.pt/escola-doutoral/doutoramentos)
Teaching language
Available soon
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.
The degree of doutor corresponds to the level 8 of the NQF and EQF-National Qualifications Framework/European Qualifications Framework.
Conditions of admittance
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. .
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 | History and Trends of Digital Media - 1st semester | 7,5 |
| 73223102 | Media Laboratory - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223103 | Research Methods - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223118 | Thesis Plan | 30 |
| 73223109 | Media Technology - 2nd semester | 7,5 |
| 73223106 | Communication Theory - 1st semester | 7,5 |
| 73223119 | Thesis in Digital Media | 150 |
| Elective option 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Code | Name | ECTS |
| Options | ||
| 73223105 | Optional I | 7,5 |
| 73223114 | Optional II | 7,5 |
| 73223115 | Optional III | 7,5 |
| 73223116 | Seminar I | 7,5 |
| 73223117 | Seminar II | 7,5 |
| 73223120 | Advanced Topics in Digital Media | 7,5 |