- UAB Specialisation Course
- Code: 5422/1
- 1st edition
- Modality: Hybrid
- Credits: 3 ECTS
- Start date: 01/07/2027
- Finish date: 31/07/2027
- Places: 30
- Orientation: Professional
- Price: 870 €
- Teaching language: Spanish
- Location: Online classes and fieldwork in the city of Barcelona
The Specialisation Course 360° Educommunication: Projects, Tools, and Debates in an AI World is a hybrid academic experience aimed at students interested in the fields of Education and Communication. Its purpose is to broaden and contextualise knowledge in areas such as education, communication, media literacy, and related disciplines through direct engagement with leading projects, institutions, and reference spaces connected to communication, education, culture, and technological innovation.
The programme includes a series of contextual online sessions and in-person academic activities that will take place in Barcelona in July 2027. It combines lectures and meetings with experts, practical workshops, guided visits, and a range of academic and cultural activities.
The fieldwork component in Barcelona will provide participants with first-hand exposure to museums, research centres, artificial intelligence laboratories, media organisations, television networks, cultural institutions, and other innovative initiatives that are helping to transform the fields of communication and education in todays context.
The course is therefore an international, hybrid, complementary, and professionally oriented programme designed to foster experiential learning and direct engagement with professionals, institutions, and innovative projects.
- Projects in Communication and Education: Learning and Communicating in an AI-Driven World.
- Content Production: Criteria for the Design of Educational and Cultural Materials.
- Fieldwork.
- Final Project.
The course also prepares students to undertake roles related to educational content design, teaching innovation, media and digital literacy, teacher training, the creation of multimedia resources, and the development of strategies for education that promotes the critical, creative, and responsible use of media and artificial intelligence. The programme incorporates a practical and applied dimension through engagement with case studies, innovative experiences, digital tools workshops, and educommunication and media literacy projects developed at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), fostering direct interaction with researchers, educators, and specialized professionals.
In addition, students are encouraged to develop their own training, consultancy, research, educational content production, and educommunication entrepreneurship projects, as well as initiatives focused on knowledge transfer and social innovation. The course offers an interdisciplinary perspective to address the challenges of the digital transformation of education, artificial intelligence, disinformation, and the development of a critical, participatory, and media-literate citizenship.
The programme includes a series of contextual online sessions and in-person academic activities that will take place in Barcelona in July 2027. It combines lectures and meetings with experts, practical workshops, guided visits, and a range of academic and cultural activities.
The fieldwork component in Barcelona will provide participants with first-hand exposure to museums, research centres, artificial intelligence laboratories, media organisations, television networks, cultural institutions, and other innovative initiatives that are helping to transform the fields of communication and education in todays context.
The course is therefore an international, hybrid, complementary, and professionally oriented programme designed to foster experiential learning and direct engagement with professionals, institutions, and innovative projects.
Contents
- Communication and Education: Converging Concepts.- Projects in Communication and Education: Learning and Communicating in an AI-Driven World.
- Content Production: Criteria for the Design of Educational and Cultural Materials.
- Fieldwork.
- Final Project.
Career opportunities
he specialization course in Communication and Education trains professionals capable of designing, developing, and evaluating educommunication projects, integrating communication, education, and digital technologies across a variety of educational, social, and institutional contexts. The programme provides the knowledge, methodologies, and tools required to pursue professional activities in educational institutions, universities, media organizations, social organizations, public institutions, technology companies, and entities specialized in media and information literacy (media literacy).The course also prepares students to undertake roles related to educational content design, teaching innovation, media and digital literacy, teacher training, the creation of multimedia resources, and the development of strategies for education that promotes the critical, creative, and responsible use of media and artificial intelligence. The programme incorporates a practical and applied dimension through engagement with case studies, innovative experiences, digital tools workshops, and educommunication and media literacy projects developed at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), fostering direct interaction with researchers, educators, and specialized professionals.
In addition, students are encouraged to develop their own training, consultancy, research, educational content production, and educommunication entrepreneurship projects, as well as initiatives focused on knowledge transfer and social innovation. The course offers an interdisciplinary perspective to address the challenges of the digital transformation of education, artificial intelligence, disinformation, and the development of a critical, participatory, and media-literate citizenship.
Scholarships and financial aid
The specialisation course is not supported by grants, scholarships or financial aid.
Chek all the information on the possibilities for grants and scholarships in the page for UAB financial aids, grants and calls.
Coordinating centres
Departamento de Periodismo y de Ciencias de la Comunicación
Contact
Albert Sarabia Tarraga
Phone: 93581689