Dissertation Project

Recommended Prerequisites

A good knowledge of written english is recommended.

Teaching Methods

Meetings for the presentation and discussion of bibliography and the porduction of text for the different projet satges, as scheduled for each session.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular aims to guide the student in the production of his/her doctoral project. The project should be written in about 12 thousand words, containing the subject, the object of study, the identification of the research question, justification of its relevance, theoretical and methodological foundation, expected outcomes, resources, timeline and bibliography. This curricular unit ends with a Qualification Test in which students will present and defend their thesis project before a panel of 3 professors. In addition to this, it is required that at the end of the third semester that students have had participation with presentation at a Conference in the area of communication or published a paper and teaching at least one class in the first or second cycles of area.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Choice and definition of the subject of analysis.

Collection and preliminary study of the literature of the field.

Collecting data from primary sources.

Treatment techniques and data analysis.

Presentation and discussion of projects already completed.

Review of drafts of the thesis.

Production of the investigation report.

Scheduling.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria João Rosa Cruz Silveirinha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Project: 100.0%

Bibliography

Deacon , D., Pickering, M., Gol ding, P., & Murdock, G . (1999) Researching Communications . London, Sydney, Auckland : Arnold

Hansen , A., Cottle, S., Negrine, R., & Newbold, C. (Eds.) (1998) Mass Communication Research Methods . London: Palgrave

Jensen K. B. (Ed.) (2002), A Handbook of Media an Communication Research. Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies London : Routledge

Fairclough, N. (2003) Analysing Discourse. Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge, , pp. 270

Strauss, Anselm L.; Corbin, Juliet M. (1998) Basics of Qualitative Research : Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory, London, Sage

McQuail, Denis, Peter Golding, Els De Bens (2005) Communication theory and research, London:  Sage.