Doctoral degree in Humanities and Social Sciences
Develop your doctoral degree in the fields of History, History and Music Sciences, Linguistics, Literature and its Didactics, Didactics of the Sciences, Educational Research, Sociology, or Social Work
- Area of knowledge: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Places: 15
- Programme coordinator: Álvaro Baraibar Echeverría
Presentation
Why should you study the Doctoral degree in Humanities and Social Sciences?
- Top-level researching in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences field
- Wide range of offered degrees
- Student support and follow-up:
Which departments take part in this programme?
- Human and Educational Sciences
- Sociology and Social Work
- Sciences (Experimental Sciences didactics area)
Access requiremens
In order to access an official doctoral degree students must hold a Spanish official Bachelor's degree, or equivalent, and University Master's degree, or equivalent, provided they have passed at least 300 ECTS credits counting both of them.
Specific criteria of the programme
The Academic Commission will examine the applications and decide on admissions taking the following aspects into account:
El perfil de ingreso recomendado es:
- History: Master’s degree in History or Double Master’s degree in History and Memory and Secondary Education Teaching
- Music History and Sciences: official Master’s Degrees in Music
- Sociology: Master’s degree in Gender, Women and Equality or official Master’s degrees in Sociology or Social Research
- Social Work: University Master's degree in Social Intervention with Individuals, Families and Groups, Master’s Degree in Gender, Women and Equality or other official master’s degrees in the social intervention area
- Educational Research and Didactics: Master’s degree in Secondary Education Teaching
- Philology: students from other universities holders of a master’s degree following a Bachelor's degree in Philology (Basque, Spanish, English, French, German) or similar degree, and Master's degree in Secondary Education Teaching, specialised in Foreign and own languages and Classical languages.
- Pedagogy: students from other universities, holders of a master's degree following a Bachelor's degree in Education, Teaching, or similar degree, and Master’s degree in Secondary Education Teaching, which includes much content in didactics and educational innovation in all its specialisation fields.
Likewise, any other master’s degrees with the same name and similar content, taught in other Spanish universities, which qualifies them regarding their required previous knowledge to develop a doctoral thesis.
Additional profiles which may be considered similar are defined - they will require training complements.
Students from master's degrees in other Humanities may pursue a thesis in the Geography and History, Philology and Language Didactics areas. In order to do so, the following training complements must be formalised:
- 6 credits of specific subjects of the mentioned areas.
Students from master's degrees in other Humanities may pursue a thesis in the Sociology and Social Work areas. In order to do so, the following training complements must be formalised:
- 9 credits of specific subjects of the mentioned areas.
Students from other master's degrees in Social Sciences may pursue a doctoral thesis in the Sociology, Social Work and Humanities areas. In order to do so, the following training complements must be formalised:
- 15 credits of specific subjects of the mentioned areas.
Students from degrees in Humanities or higher degrees in Music may pursue a doctoral thesis in the Music Education and Musicology areas. In order to do so, the following training complements must be formalised:
- 15 credits of specific subjects of the mentioned areas.
- Consult the theses defended within the Doctoral Degree in Humanities and Social Science
- Access UPNA’s institutional archive
- Check scientific contributions derived from the thesis