Cognitive Science and Language - Introduction

• Programme coordination

• Programme Academic Committee

• Interuniversity Programme Academic Committee

• Offer

• Language

• Catalan
• Spanish
• English

• Introduction and objectives

The main aim of doctoral studies is to train students to carry out high-quality advanced research. To achieve this, the general objectives are the following:

• To incorporate the doctoral students in a research group.
• To broaden the students' abilities so that they can specialise intensively in the research lines defined by the programme.
• To foster initiative in undertaking research projects with the methodology and the scientific principles of the research line in which they are working.
• To promote the acquisition of general skills related to personal and group work, participation in research projects, management of bibliographic databases, etc.

• An inter-university doctorate

The doctoral programme in Cognitive Science and Language is jointly organised by the following three universities: 

Inter-university

Website of the inter-university programme

http://www.ub.edu/ccil/

• Entry profile

The doctoral programme is aimed at people with interest and a good training in research in some of the research lines of the programme related to the philosophical, linguistic and psychological fields, with preference those students showing some interdisciplinary experience, like that obtained after studying the Master's degree in Cognitive Science and Language, which is a Master's degree related to this doctoral programme. The programme can also be interesting for professionals and graduated in other fields related to language. More specifically, the programme is aimed to satisfy the demand of specific groups of students or professionals:

1. Students who have studied a Master's degree related to some of the research lines of the programme. Specially, students related to the interuniversity (UB, UAB, UPF, URV and UdG) Science Cognitive and Language Master's degree show an appropriate profile. However, students who have taken a Master's degree related to the research lines of the doctoral programme are also included in the entry profile. This would involve students related to the Social and Humanistic Sciences, Health Sciences or Educational Sciences (for instance, philologists, translators, speech therapists, educational psychologists, etc.). In this group can be included students who have studied a Master's degree linked to philosophical aspects (like the interuniversity Master's degree in Analytical Philosophy), linguistic and philosophical aspects (the Master's degrees related to the -didactic- teaching of a language to native and foreigners, applied linguistic, and translation will be aligned) and psychological aspects (like the Master's degrees related to cognitive psychology and with relationship between behaviour and cognition).

2. Students with other official degrees of fields related to those mentioned in the paragraph above can also be admitted, as long as they prove to have training in research and knowledge of some of the research lines of the doctoral programme, as well as command of English.

• Career opportunities

Students who successfully complete the doctoral programme will be able to work in the following areas:

• Research in the field of cognitive science.
• Teaching in the field of cognitive science, neuropsychological assessment, psycholinguistic assessment, cognitive development and language assessment, and knowledge engineering.

The interdisciplinary training offered by this doctoral degree provides its graduates with tools that allow them to become competent professionals who are sought in fields such as information technology, cultural management, publishing, public administration, journalism and other communication sciences.