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The Valencian International University in Spain and Latin America is launching
the first Master in the Social Research of Science Communication.
The course aims to train professionals in scientific communication.
This is becoming ever more in demand by RDI centres, media outlets,
universities, laboratories, and science and technology enterprises.
The Master is directed at Communication Studies graduates wishing to specialise,
as well as professionals from other disciplines wanting to develop their communication skills
in the science and technology sectors. The course aims to:
increase transversal knowledge, train specialists to competently raise public awareness
about specific campaigns or information coming from the sciences.
The Master has been devised in consultation with national and international experts
and is taught in collaboration with teachers from the Science School
at the Centre for Higher Education within the OEI.
The postgraduate course specifically teaches how to effectively communicate:
environmental issues, technology, medicine and science in its broad sense.
It also covers risk situations, such as food crises, energy and climate problems,
natural disasters and pandemics. It meets the specialised demand for training
in the dissemination of topics related to scientific communication,
and reinforces the knowledge of professionals and researchers.
The Master is divided into three main modules:
Foundations of Science and Technology Communication.
Formats and Contents of Science and Technology Communication.
And the Practicum, which consists of the Master Dissertation.
Students can also gain admission to a PhD programme after studying the course.
The experts teaching the Master are specialists working for scientific bodies,
and national and international universities, such as:
All these and many more are acknowledged experts of scientific communication
from the research, communication, professional and education sectors.
They tackle science from complementary perspectives.
The Master is taught on the VIU’s technology platform
using an interactive, audiovisual methodology offering students a unique learning experience.
The platform enables people to interact from anywhere in the world
and uses an innovative telecommunications infrastructure.
Teaching sessions are also recorded and can be watched time and again.
Most of the real-time interaction takes place at the videoconferences.
Here, students can ask questions, resolve doubts, share texts, graphs and videos,
have virtual tutorials either on their own or in a group.
The VIU also provides content in pdf and multimedia document formats.
These integrate text, links, images and sound along with the teaching material.
Other resources include the expert and teachers’ videos
where aspects of the course are looked at more in-depth.
This is the VIU experience. An interactive, audiovisual teaching method
serving the training needs of everyone, anywhere in the world.
The VIU. Wherever there’s a person who wants to learn.