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    The Program

    PPGCOM - UERJ

    PRESENTATION

    The Graduate Program in Communication of the UERJ Faculty of Social Communication presents a privileged space for intellectual exchange and development of scientific research in the field of studies and communication practices. The two lines of research developed in the Program, “Media culture, imaginary, and city” and “Communication and Culture Technologies,” discuss contemporary issues essential to the academic agenda of 21st-century media. Over the past 20 years, the Faculty of Social Communication has matured the relation between theory and practice via various interfaces, such as lato sensu graduate courses, journalism and public relations laboratories, internal seminars, guest professors, and international agreements.


    The program meets the following main objectives: to qualify and improve teachers and researchers in the field of Social Communication; develop a critical mass of reflection on the main subjects and issues of communication in contemporary times; prepare a skilled work force to develop studies and projects in the field of research and plan communication companies, government institutions, and non-governmental organizations; offer a space for Social Communication professionals who are inserted in the labor market to reflect on their field activities; provide professionals from other areas with a space for interdisciplinarity reflection and research; collaborate, by various mechanisms, to improve undergraduate courses by training highly qualified researchers.

    HISTORY

    The master’s degree at the UERJ Faculty of Social Communication was established with production seminars, held by its professors, and other meetings among them and other foreign institutions. From these studies, it was possible to shape the purposes of research lines projects in the program. Finally, in April 2002, CAPES recommended the Program, always receiving positive evaluations which correspond to master’s professors and students’ quality of the academic production at the Faculty of Social Communication. In 2010, program faculty members began to prepare a Doctoral application document, which was approved by CAPES in 2012.