Doctoral studies

            One of the objectives of the Organic Law on Universities (LOU) is to train new researchers and to prepare research teams that can successfully deal with the challenges offered by the new sciences, techniques and methodologies. It also aims to foster the training of academic staff and to perfect the professional, scientific, technical and artistic development of those with higher qualifications. To do so, there are suggested minimum numbers of students for each programme. Mechanisms are also established with which to carry out joint planning and evaluation of the quality of those programmes, while at the same time respecting the autonomy of the university.

All the credits of the programme will be divided into two periods. The first will consist of a period of teaching and the second will be a period of supervised research. The purpose of this is to enable students to specialise in a particular scientific, technical or artistic field, while at the same time training them in research techniques. On finishing the first of these two periods, students will be given an overall grade and then issued a certificate valid in any Spanish university which accredits their having passed the teaching phase. At the end of the second phase, students will be given a certificate-diploma to certify that they have successfully completed higher studies. Without overlapping with postgraduate studies, these will grant doctoral studies a number of different functions and will be useful for those who do not want to stay on in the third cycle.

The abovementioned certificate-diploma will acknowledge the work done by its holder in a particular area of knowledge. It will also certify the student's research aptitude and be officially recognised in all Spanish universities.

The following Doctoral courses are offered for the 2005-2006 academic year:

Area of humanities and social sciences

Department of Education

• Cultural Diversity and Educational Interdisciplinarity

Department of English Studies

• Discourse Analysis. Theory and Applications in the Use and Acquisition of the English Language
• English Language
• Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Applied Linguistics

Department of European Philology and Cultures 

• Spanish Language and Literature
• Studies on Discourse in the Catalan Language
• Inter-University Programme in International Philological Studies

Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Audiovisual Communication and Advertising

• Peace, Conflicts and Democracy
• Ethics and Democracy
• Business and Institutional Communication: Trends and Perspectives 

Department of History, Geography and Art

• Historical Processes, Culture and Development
• An Interdisciplinary Perspective of Gender Studies
• The Construction of the National State in Latin America. 18^th and 19^th Centuries
• Social Actors and Political Culture in Contemporary History

Department of Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

• Advances in Basic and Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

Department of Developmental, Educational and Social Psychology and Methodology

• Research Applied to the Developmental, Educational, Social and Methodological Fields of Psychology
• Occupational and Organisational Psychology (OOP)

Department of Translation and Communication

• Translation, Society and Communication

Area of law and economics

Department of Business Administration and Marketing / Department of Finance and Accounting

• Business Management
• Inter University PhD Programme in Marketing

Department of Private Law

• Civil Liability in Risk Sectors

Department of Public Law

• Constitutional Rights and Duties
• Companies and the Penal System
• Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in the Penal Justice System 

Department of Economics

• Industrial and International Economics

Area of technology and experimental sciences

Department of Experimental Sciences

• Chemistry, Physics and Applied Sciences
• Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (TCC)
• Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Experimental Techniques in Chemistry 

Department of Chemical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering: Processing of Ceramic Materials

Department of Computer Languages and Systems / Department of Computer Science and Engineering

• Advanced Computing Methods

Department of Mathematics

• Multidisciplinary Mathematics
• Mathematics and Their Applications

Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry

• Molecular Chemistry and Materials
• Sustainable Chemistry
• Homogeneus Cathalysis
• Organic Chemistry in the Chemical-Pharmaceutical Industry

Department of Technology

• Technological Innovation Projects in Product and Process Engineering
• Advanced Structure Analysis and Design

For further information about doctoral study programmes, please contact the Department responsible for the course. Information about the contents of the different programmes can also be obtained at:
http://www.uji.es/infoest/estudis/doctorat/