Humanities: History, Philosophy, and Aesthetics

This program invites you to study the humanities as the key to understanding Western civilization and the human experience in three complementary areas:

History and society: analyzes the achievements and conflicts of values that permeate society, understanding how communities are shaped and transformed over time.

Philosophy: rationally inquires into the world and human beings, exploring the nature of the person, their place in existence, and the implications of these reflections on education.

Aesthetics: studies human creativity through art, literature, ideas, and religion, as a synthesis of imagination, truth, and reason, and as a form of expression and emotion of thought and culture.

The program is developed within an academic framework where the humanities are central. Education and research in history, philosophy, and the arts seek to harmonize understanding, freedom, and will, promoting reflection on the nature and meaning of things, the connection between theory and practice, and dialogue with others.

The doctoral program prepares you to develop basic and general competencies, as well as personal skills and abilities.

• Understand the broad field of the humanities and master research methods.

• Conceive, design, and execute research or creative processes

• Contribute to the expansion of knowledge through original research

• Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize complex ideas

• Communicate results to the academic community and society in the usual languages

• Promote scientific, social, artistic, and cultural advancement in academic and professional contexts.

• Work with limited information and ask key questions

• Design and develop innovative projects

• Work as part of a team and independently, even in international or multidisciplinary contexts

• Integrate knowledge and make judgments in complex situations

• Critically analyze problems in the humanities and solve them from an integrated view of the human being.

• Conduct research on Western civilization and apply its findings to current contexts.

Each doctoral student will have an academic tutor and a thesis supervisor, both of whom are doctors with research experience, who will guide them in their progress and supervise the preparation of their thesis. During the first year, the Research Plan and Personal Training Plan will be drawn up, which can be updated annually through follow-up reports and the Doctoral Student Activity Document.

The thesis must be an original work and must include at least one published or accepted article derived from the project. Its evaluation will involve reports from external experts, authorization from the Academic Committee for its submission, and a public defense before a panel of doctors, who will award the final grade.

After the defense, the thesis will be archived in the institutional repository and sent to the Ministry of Universities.

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