La enseñanza universitaria de las Teorías de la Comunicación en Europa y América Latina

Carlos Lozano Ascencio; Miguel  Vicente Mariño

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2010-898-255-265

Authors

Carlos Lozano Ascencio Rey Juan Carlos University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2537-0799
Miguel Vicente Mariño University of Valladolid https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3535

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2010-898-255-265

Keywords:

Communication Theory, Teaching, University, Europe, Latin America, Survey

Abstract

Communication Theories are one of the main pillars of many higher education studies that, placing communication as its core topic, have raised public presence during the last two decades at universities worldwide. However, this ongoing process of consolidation inside the scholar field is not walking together with an objective analysis of the ontological and epistemological positions serving as milestones for Communication Theories’ courses. Taking an international online survey as the initial source of information, completed by professors and lectures working at different European and Latin American countries, this paper collects some useful information about the positions and the content of these courses, bringing some light in a confusing fieldwork. If the goal of a common higher education area is real, then deep comparative studies like this must be carried out. Results appeal to a clear dominance of Mass Communications as the main topic inside these courses, although there is a high level of interdisciplinary approaches. Some of the requirements established by the new European Higher Education Area are not implemented in the expected competencies for the students, although they are all present in the courses’ objectives. Professors and lecturers are conscious about the new standard set by the Bologna Process, but this consciousness did not arrive to the classrooms yet.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Lozano Ascencio, Rey Juan Carlos University

Carlos Lozano has a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Professionally, he has worked in the Mexican public television network IMEVISION, in TVE and the Iberoamerican Educational Television in programmes and educational and scientific dissemination projects.

His teaching career in the field of communication began in 1983 in both Mexican and Spanish universities. He is currently a professor of the Journalism degree at the Rey Juan Carlos University.

For five years he was head of the official European Master in Communication and Sociocultural Issues. His main areas of research include: the Risk Society, Social Uncertainty, Communication Theory, and History of Journalism.

His recent publications include Ensayo general sobre la comunicación (General Essay on Communication) published by Paidós in 2006 and co-written with José Luis Piñuel; and "El medio ambiente como una referencia dominante en la construcción social del acontecer catastrófico" (The environment as a key reference in the social construction of catastrophic events) in Carabaza, J. and Lozano, J. C. (Eds.) Comunicación y Medio Ambiente. Reflexiones, análisis y propuestas. Monterrey, Mexico, Tecnológico de Monterrey. 2009.

Miguel Vicente Mariño, University of Valladolid

Miguel Vicente has a Ph.D. in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2009), with a thesis entitled La cobertura televisiva de la crisis del Prestige: agendas, encuadres y discursos en los noticiarios españoles (Television coverage of the crisis of Prestige: agendas, framings, and discourses in Spanish news programmes).

Moreover, he has a B.A. in Sociology (2006) also from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and another B.A. in Journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

From April 2006 Miguel Vicente works as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Valladolid, Segovia Campus, where he teaches subjects like Public Opinion, and Research and Evaluation Techniques. Furthermore, he is consultant professor of Communication Theories at the Open University of Catalonia since 2008.

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