The doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies pretends to train professionals and researchers of every field related to the Spanish Language, Spanish and Spanish-American Literature, Portuguese Philology and the Theatre and Performing Arts in the Hispanic context so that within the different profiles (advanced academic knowledge, training for the research and specific applications in the working field) it can acquire a high-level Hispanic training and the appropriate techniques for the preparation of a doctoral thesis of excellence in some of these areas. The researchers' training is, in the European Knowledge Space, a key element of society. The social recognition of the acquired abilities in the third cycle is one of the main challenges for the reach of levels of quality, internationalisation, innovation, recognition and mobility in the Spanish university.

   The doctoral programme is coherent with the lines of research of the Department of Spanish that include all the fields related to the Spanish Language (history and historiography, phonetics and phonology, grammar, semantics, lexicography and lexicology, pragmatic and spoken Spanish, varieties and uses of the Spanish language, and Spanish for specific purposes), Spanish and Spanish-American Literature, Portuguese Philology and the Theatre and Performing Arts in the Hispanic context (both in the historiographical field of all the periods of Literature and analysis of literary production, and in the cultural contexts, discourses and artistic trends of the Spanish literary and theatrical practice). The offer of research lines and its scientific quality is integrated and justified both by the research career and the R&D strategy of our Department.

   The members of the Department of Spanish who are part of the doctoral programme possess a consolidated research and teaching career, both at national and international level, proof of this are the quality publications, as well as the research projects they manage, the defended theses and the number of six-year research period that they have. The scientific quality and the relevance within the research community of the members of the Department of Spanish turn it into one of the most outstanding departments as far as research of the University of Valencia is referred, as well as in one of the Departments of reference in the international field. 

   The degree of internationalisation of research of our Department has a positive effect our doctoral programme, which has accepted and accepts Spanish students (from our university and other national universities), and also from European, Spanish-American, American, Canadian, Asian, African and Arabic universities.

   This context of quality and scientific rigour is the basis for the purposes of the doctoral programme in Advanced Hispanic Studies, which are detailed below:

1. To provide an advanced training in the methodology and research techniques of the different fields of Hispanic studies in the knowledge areas of Spanish Language, Spanish Literature and Portuguese Philology, in order to guide for the preparation and defence of a doctoral thesis: all of this in coherence with the lines of research of the Department of Spanish of the UVEG.
2. To ensure that the training programme trains students for the research, by means of the knowledge learning and methodologies required for the preparation of a research project and, subsequently, a doctoral thesis.
3. To tutor the students in their advanced training, providing them the necessary tools in order to favour their autonomy in the field of research and developing their abilities and skills.
4. To facilitate the students' mobility, providing them the official information, contributing to the processing of the documentation and advising them in the choice of mobility destination and other relative matters.
5. To contribute to the achievement of fellowships, offering the students the information of calls and assistance in the application process, especially in the preparation of their curriculum and in the academic fields in relation with the future research.
6. To encourage participating in the research groups and research projects of the Department of Spanish.
7. To advise the students in the use of databases, and training them for the location, use and discrimination of the bibliographical information and electronic resources.
8. To apply also these knowledge to the professional field by means of a practice training in specific working applications in the field of literature, language and theatre, with the support of collaborating institutions such as the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), University Institute for Applied Modern Languages (University of Valencia), the Royal School of Dramatic Arts (Madrid), Theatre Documentation Centre of the INAEM, Max Aub Foundation, Gulbenkian Foundation, Interdisciplinary Institute for Latin-American Studies, International Institute of the Mediterranean Theatre, Camoens Institute, Communico Group, Technolinguistics, Language Centre of the University of Valencia, editorials, some companies, etc.
9. To guarantee the acquisition on behalf of the doctoral student for the personal training, knowledge, competences, abilities and skills established for the doctoral studies in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education.