The doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies is focused on university graduates interested in improving their training in the field of the Spanish Philology by means of advanced academic knowledge and training for research.
The suitable profile of the doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies corresponds to the graduate student of our official Master's Degree in Spanish Studies: applications and research by the University of Valencia. Also students from areas of knowledge of Humanities and Social Sciences who have carried out their higher studies will be able to join in our doctoral programme.
It is of particular concern for higher graduates with the following profiles: Philology, Humanities, Audiovisual Communication, Translation and Interpretation, Information Sciences, History, Fine Arts, Library Sciences, Performing Arts, Anthropology, Sociology and Philosophy.
Also, professionals from the world of culture, editorial world, from the Public Administration or tourist sector, regardless of their previous university specialisation, when exists, in view of the Doctoral Academic Committee, a curricular affinity relationship with the objectives of the doctorate, and on condition that they are in possession of a higher university degree will be able to enrol.
The recommended applicant profile is to be in possession of a degree of a licenciatura or an undergraduate degree (with 240 ECTS credits) in the areas of knowledge previously described, as well as having passed 60 ECTS credits of one or various Master's degrees. This recommended profile ensures that doctoral students possess the suitable training, the required knowledge and have a sufficient control of the essential tools to acquire a high-level Hispanic studies training and the advanced training for the quality research in the field of Hispanic studies, which is the object of our doctoral programme.
The applicants should be one the assumptions of the article 6 of the RD 99/2011 or the second additional disposition of such Royal Decree.
The pre-registration to the doctoral studies will be made in the Postgraduate Service of the University of Valencia, in accordance with the existing legislation.
—Maximum number of accepted students in the Doctorate each course: 20.
The doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies offers annually 20 vacancies, the 5% pf which (1 vacancy) will be reserved for students with disabilities. The part-time percentage will be the 30% of the total of the offered vacancies (6 vacancies). The part-time doctoral students should justify in the presence of the Academic Programme Committee their applicant profile with the part-time modality.
Students must determine their modality (full time/ part-time) in the pre-registration to the programme. Full time students will have 3 years to submit their doctoral thesis, from the admission to the doctoral programme (if the thesis deposit has not been made after the deadline, you could request an extension for one year, which exceptionally may be extended for one more year). And part-time students will have a maximum length of five years (if the thesis deposit has not been made after the deadline, you could request an extension for two years, which exceptionally may be extended for one more year).
The conditions of the doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies for accepting the established extension for the Royal Decree 99/2011 to both full time and part-time doctoral students, will be the justification in the presence of the Academic Committee of the doctoral programme of special familiar, personal or employment status. In each case the Academic Committee will study the requested extension propriety. In addition, the Academic Committee will also be in charge of studying and processing, always in case of justified causes, the dedication change of the doctoral student.
As regards the systems and admission procedures to students with disabilities, the University of Valencia has the Unit for the Integration of People with Disabilities. The Unit for the Integration of People with Disabilities will be in charge of the psycho-educational advice of students and teaching staff to the special needs of learning, wherever it is necessary. The considered adaptations will not always be significant, that is to say, the essential contents and the objectives set in our doctoral programme will be respected, concerning the methodology, use of assistive technologies, work adaptation, etc.
—Requirements:
The rules of Official Postgraduate Studies of the University of Valencia stipulate that, in order to access the doctoral programme in its research period, the applicants should be in possession of any of the following degrees:
- —Official Spanish university Master's degree or other of the same level issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area.
- —Foreign higher education degree previously approved with the academic degree of the Master's.
- —Official degree obtained in accordance with educative systems outside the European Higher Education Area. In this case, the access will be conditional upon the obtaining of the favourable access resolution to the Doctoral Programme in their Research period by the Principal of the University of Valencia.
Also, those who fulfill any of the following conditions will be able to access the research period of the Doctoral Programmes, and without prejudice to the requirements established in each case in the corresponding study plans:
- —To have passed 60 credits included in one or various University Master's Degrees, in accordance with the stated in the doctoral programme in which the interested is.
- —To be in possession of the Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (a tertiary education degree), obtained in accordance with the provisions in the Royal Decree 778/1998, on 30 April, or had reached the regulated research sufficiency in the Royal Decree 185/1985, on 23 January.
Additional requirements for foreign Degrees:
In order to access the Doctoral studies the previous official approval of a higher foreign education degree by the Ministry of Spanish Education is not necessary. The admission in a doctorate does not imply, in any case, the official approval of the previous degree, nor its recognition to different effects in respect of studying the doctorate research period.
With general nature, the foreign degrees and certificates should fulfill compulsorily with 3 specific requirements (official, legalised and translated), following the next indications established by the University of Valencia, and that can be checked in the following link:
In case of students with non-official approval degree sent by a higher education institution outside the EHEA (European Higher Education Area), the obtaining of the favourable access resolution by the Principal of the University of Valencia will be required. To obtain it, the interested person should contact the Postgraduate Centre, Management Unit of Third Course (doctorado@uv.es).
