Introduction to the Program

Accede a puestos de relevancia en el ámbito de la Communication al mejorar tus habilidades y competencias con esta Postgraduate diploma”  

Esta Postgraduate diploma pretende dotar a los alumnos de los instrumentos y conocimientos necesarios para obtener una visión global y exhaustiva sobre la Communication y entender el sistema de medios de Comunicación y su estructura en el panorama mundial y su contexto global. En el programa se abordará la configuración de la estructura de la Comunicación mundial compuesta por los grandes conglomerados mediáticos, las agencias de noticias, grupos publicitarios y la industria del cine. Así, los alumnos estudiarán quiénes forman parte del sistema de medios y qué empresas participan en el accionariado de las grandes compañías de Comunicación y las políticas de los organismos públicos nacionales y transnacionales respecto a los medios.  

Por su parte, la Comunicación corporativa se ha convertido en uno de los pilares más importantes dentro de cualquier empresa. Todas las entidades quieren estar presentes en los medios de Comunicación o tener una mejor Comunicación con sus clientes, proveedores y empleados. En muchas ocasiones, este afán por comunicar a cualquier precio no sigue ninguna táctica para alcanzar una estrategia definida, sino que supone una improvisación que una empresa no puede permitirse. Por ello, es fundamental que los profesionales adquieran una cualificación superior en este campo, que les permita dominar las principales técnicas y herramientas comunicativas para ponerlas en práctica en su labor diaria, lo que les permitirá acceder a puestos de relevancia.

Para ello, este programa ofrece además al estudiante una pormenorizada panorámica del pensamiento creativo y de su aplicación al ámbito de la Comunicación, lo que permitirá al estudiante podrá comprender y asimilar cómo es el proceso de creación en cualquier circunstancia vital, poniendo especial atención a la Comunicación persuasiva. El objetivo es ofrecer teorías y técnicas para superar prejuicios, desarrollar la imaginación y despertar una actitud acorde para generar ideas originales en cualquier esfera comunicativa.  

Conoce las particularidades de la Communication y conviértete en un experto en el sector” 

Esta Postgraduate diploma en Communication contiene el programa educativo más completo y actualizado del mercado. Sus características más destacadas son:

  • El uso de la última tecnología en softwares de enseñanza online
  • El sistema docente, intensamente visual, apoyado en contenidos gráficos y esquemáticos de fácil asimilación y comprensión
  • El desarrollo de casos prácticos presentados por expertos en activo
  • Los sistemas de vídeo interactivo de última generación
  • La enseñanza apoyada en la telepráctica
  • Los sistemas de actualización y reciclaje permanente
  • El aprendizaje autorregulable, lo que favorece la total compatibilidad con otras ocupaciones
  • Los ejercicios prácticos de autoevaluación y constatación de aprendizaje
  • Los grupos de apoyo y sinergias educativas: preguntas al experto, foros de discusión y conocimiento
  • La Comunicación con el equipo docente y trabajos de reflexión individual
  • La disponibilidad de acceso a los contenidos desde cualquier dispositivo fijo o portátil con conexión a internet
  • Los bancos de documentación complementaria disponibles permanentemente

Este programa te enseñará a manejar con solvencia los aspectos fundamentales de la Communication” 

El personal docente de este programa está integrado por profesionales de diferentes ámbitos relacionados con esta especialidad. De esta manera, TECH puede ofrecer el objetivo de actualización académica que tiene marcado. Un cuadro multidisciplinar de profesionales experimentados en diferentes entornos, que desarrollarán los conocimientos teóricos, de manera eficiente, pero, sobre todo, pondrán a servicio de los alumnos los conocimientos prácticos derivados de su propia experiencia. 

Este dominio de la materia se complementa con la eficacia del diseño metodológico. Elaborado por un equipo multidisciplinario de expertos en e-learning, integra los últimos avances en tecnología educativa. Así, el alumno podrá estudiar con un elenco de herramientas multimedia cómodas y versátiles que le darán la operatividad que necesita en su proceso de estudio.  

El diseño de este programa se centra en el Aprendizaje Basado en Problemas. Un planteamiento que concibe el aprendizaje como un proceso eminentemente práctico. Para conseguirlo de forma remota, se usa la telepráctica. Así, con la ayuda de un novedoso sistema de vídeo interactivo, y el Learning From an Expert el alumno podrá adquirir los conocimientos como si estuviese enfrentándose a un supuesto real. Un concepto que le permitirá integrar y fijar el aprendizaje de una manera más realista y permanente. 

Matricúlate en esta Postgraduate diploma y accede de manera ilimitada a todos sus recursos académicos” 

El uso de la telepráctica te dará la oportunidad de aprender mediante una experiencia inmersiva, que te proporcionará una integración más rápida y una visión mucho más realista de los contenidos”

Syllabus

The contents of this program were developed by the different experts with a clear goal: achieve that the students acquire the necessary skills to become real specialists in Communication and apply everything they have learned to their daily work. A comprehensive and well-structured program that will propel students towards excellence and success, and allow them to have access relevant positions in the field of advertising and public relations. 

The syllabus is structured in well-developed teaching units, which will allow you to make a successful educational journey in the field of Communication”

Module 1. Communication Structure

1.1. Theory, Concept and Method of the Structure of Communication

1.1.2. The Structuralist Method
1.1.3. Definition and Object of the Structure of Communication
1.1.4. Guide for the Analysis of the Structure of Communication

1.2. New International Communication Order

1.2.1. Control and Ownership of Communication
1.2.2. Communication Commercialization
1.2.3. Cultural Dimension of Communication

1.3. Major Information Agencies

1.3.1. What is an Information Agency?
1.3.2. Information and News. Importance of the Journalist
1.3.3. Before the Internet, the Great Unknowns
1.3.4. A Globalized Map From Local to Transnational
1.3.5. News Agencies Can Be Seen Thanks to the Internet
1.3.6. The World's Major Agencies

1.4. The Advertising Industry and its Relationship with the Media System

1.4.1. Advertising Industry, Consciousness Industries
1.4.2. The Need for Advertising for the Media
1.4.3. Structure of the Advertising Industry
1.4.4. The Media and its Relationship with the Advertising Industry
1.4.5. Advertising Regulation and Ethics

1.5. Cinema and the Culture and Leisure Market

1.5.1. Introduction
1.5.2. The Complex Nature of Cinema
1.5.3. The Origin of the Industry
1.5.4. Hollywood, the Film Capital of the World
1.5.5. The Power of Hollywood
1.5.6. From the Golden Hollywood Oscars to the Photocall of New Platforms

1.6. Political Power and the Media

1.6.1. Influence of the Media in the Formation of Society
1.6.2. Media and Political Power
1.6.3. Manipulation and (Political) Power

1.7. Media Concentration and Communication Policies

1.7.1. Theoretical Approach to External Growth Processes
1.7.2. Competition and Communication Policies in the European Union

1.8. Communication Structure in Spain

1.8.1. The Communication Sector within the Framework of Spain's Economic Activity
1.8.2. Communication Market
1.8.3. Communication in the Spanish Production System: Between Perfect Competition and Oligopoly
1.8.4. The Public and Private Communication Sectors in Spain
1.8.5. Main Media Sectors in the Spanish Information Market
1.8.6. Television Structure in Spain
1.8.7. The Radio in Spain
1.8.8. Written and Digital Press
1.8.9. Communication Groups and Supplements
1.8.10. The Decline of the Free Press and the Emerging Digital Press

1.9. Communication Structure in Latin America

1.9.1. Introduction
1.9.2. Historical Approach
1.9.3. Bipolarity of the Latin American Media System
1.9.4. U.S. Hispanic Media

1.10. A Prospective of the Structure of Communication and Journalism

1.10.1. Digitalization and the New Media Structure
1.10.2. The Structure of Communication in Democratic Countries

Module 2. Institutional Communication

2.1. Communications Management
2.2. Ethics Culture and Values
2.3. Identity and Corporate Image
2.4. Advertising and Communication
2.5. Digital Communication
2.6. Management of Events
2.7. Sponsorship and Patronage
2.8. Lobbies
2.9. Internal Communication
2.10. Crisis
2.11. Financial Communication
2.12. Business Protocol

Module 3. Creativity in Communication

3.1. To Create is to Think

3.1.1. The Art of Thinking
3.1.2. Creative Thinking and Creativity
3.1.3. Thought and Brain
3.1.4. The Lines of Research on Creativity: Systematization

3.2. Nature of the Creative Process

3.2.1. Nature of Creativity
3.2.2. The Notion of Creativity: Creation and Creativity
3.2.3. The Creation of Ideas for Persuasive Communication
3.2.4. Nature of the Creative Process in Advertising

3.3. The Invention

3.3.1. Evolution and Historical Analysis of the Creation Process
3.3.2. Nature of the Classical Canon of the Invention
3.3.3. The Classical View of Inspiration in the Origin of Ideas
3.3.4. Invention, Inspiration, Persuasion

3.4. Rhetoric and Persuasive Communication

3.4.1. Rhetoric and Advertising
3.4.2. The Rhetorical Parts of Persuasive Communication
3.4.3. Rhetorical Figures
3.4.4. Rhetorical Laws and Functions of Advertising Language

3.5. Creative Behavior and Personality

3.5.1. Creativity as a Personal Characteristic, as a Product and as a Process
3.5.2. Creative Behavior and Motivation
3.5.3. Perception and Creative Thinking
3.5.4. Elements of Creativity

3.6. Creative Skills and Abilities

3.6.1. Thinking Systems and Models of Creative Intelligence
3.6.2. Three-Dimensional Model of the Structure of the Intellect According to Guilford
3.6.3. Interaction Between Factors and Intellectual Capabilities
3.6.4. Creative Skills
3.6.5. Creative Capabilities

3.7. The Phases of the Creative Process

3.7.1. Creativity as a Process
3.7.2. The Phases of the Creative Process
3.7.3. The Phases of the Creative Process in Advertising

3.8. Troubleshooting

3.8.1. Creativity and Problem Solving
3.8.2. Perceptual Blocks and Emotional Blocks
3.8.3. Methodology of Invention: Creative Programs and Methods

3.9. The Methods of Creative Thinking

3.9.1. Brainstorming as a Model of Idea Creation
3.9.2. Vertical Thinking and Lateral Thinking

3.10. Creativity and Advertising Communication

3.10.1. The Creative Process as a Specific Product of Advertising Communication
3.10.2. Nature of the Creative Process in Advertising: Creativity and the Creative Advertising Process
3.10.3. Methodological Principles and Effects of Advertising Creation
3.10.4. Advertising Creation: From Problem to Solution
3.10.5. Creativity and Persuasive Communication

Module 4. Introduction to Communication Psychology

4.1. History of Psychology

4.1.1. We Begin with the Study of Psychology
4.1.2. Science in Evolution. Historical and Paradigmatic Changes
4.1.3. Paradigms and Stages in Psychology
4.1.4. Cognitive Science

4.2. Introduction to Social Psychology

4.2.1. Beginning with the Study of Social Psychology: The Influence of Social Psychology
4.2.2. Empathy, Altruism and Helping Behavior

4.3. Social Cognition: The Processing of Social Information

4.3.1. Thinking and Knowing, Vital Necessities
4.3.2. Social Cognition
4.3.3. Organizing Information
4.3.4. Prototypical or Categorical Thinking
4.3.5. The Mistakes We Make in Thinking: Inferential Biases
4.3.6. Automatic Information Processing

4.4. Personality Psychology

4.4.1. What is the Self? Identity and Personality
4.4.2. Self-Awareness
4.4.3. Self-Esteem
4.4.4. Self-Knowledge
4.4.5. Interpersonal Variables in Personality Shaping
4.4.6. Macro-Social Variables in the Configuration of Personality

4.5. Emotions

4.5.1. What do we Talk about When we Get Excited?
4.5.2. The Nature of Emotions
4.5.3. Emotions and Personality
4.5.4. From another Perspective. Social Emotions

4.6. Psychology of Communication. Persuasion and Attitude Change

4.6.1. Introduction to Communication Psychology
4.6.2. Attitudes
4.6.3. Historical Models in the Study of Persuasive Communication
4.6.4. The Elaboration Probability Model (ELM)
4.6.5. Communication Processes through the Media

4.7. The Sender

4.7.1. The Source of Persuasive Communication
4.7.2. Source Characteristics. Credibility
4.7.3. Source Characteristics. The Appeal
4.7.4. Emitter Characteristics. The Power
4.7.5. Processes in Persuasive Communication. Mechanisms Based on Primary Cognition

4.8. The Message

4.8.1. We Begin by Studying the Composition of the Message
4.8.2. Types of Messages: Rational vs. Emotional Messages
4.8.3. Emotional Messaging and Communication: Fear Inducing Messages
4.8.4. Rational Messages and Communication

4.9. The Receiver

4.9.1. The Role of the Recipient according to the Elaboration Probability Model
4.9.2. Recipient Needs and Motives: Their Impact on Attitude Change

4.10. New Perspectives in the Study of Communication

4.10.1. Non-Conscious Processing of Information. Automatic Processes
4.10.2. Measuring Automatic Processes in Communication
4.10.3. First Steps in the New Paradigms
4.10.4. Theories of Dual Processing Systems

A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented towards learning that is compatible with your personal and professional life"

Postgraduate Diploma in Communication

Communication is a key element in any organization or company, as it allows to transmit messages and establish relationships with customers, suppliers and collaborators. In an increasingly digital and globalized world, its employment has become even more relevant. Therefore, having skills and knowledge in this area is essential for anyone who wants to develop a successful professional career. Motivated by this, TECH has created the Postgraduate Diploma in Communication, which gives you the necessary tools to master the different techniques and most effective communication strategies. As such, this program will be an excellent tool for any journalist or communicator who wants to shine and become a professional of reference in this field in just 6 months.

Learn from the comfort of your own home

Delve into the keys to Institutional Communication, manage strategies to design creative messages or gain relevant knowledge in the field of Communication Psychology through this comprehensive program. The Postgraduate Diploma in Communication is developed 100% online, which will allow you to balance your excellent learning with your personal and professional obligations. The program has teaching materials in multimedia formats such as videos, interactive presentations or evaluative tests, thereby adapting your learning to your study preferences. At the end of your program, you will be prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities offered by the world of communication, applying your skills in a wide variety of industries and sectors.