Master in Communication of Science and Culture

The Master in Communication of Science and Culture is unique in Mexico, it trains professionals specialized in cultural management, science communication and sociocultural studies. In addition, it is accredited by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT), in the National Quality Postgraduate Program, as a Program at the International Competence Level.

This Program is For You

Professionals graduated from degrees in Social Sciences or Humanities, Exact and Natural Sciences with an interest in providing their professional activity with a sociocultural perspective and a sense of transformation, through the exercise of communication as a strategic area of social impact.

Professionals capable of connecting in public space from the study, analysis and investigation of reality.

General Competences

The emphasis of the program should be on each student's particular project. The subjects or their content must contribute to the formulation and implementation of the student's research project in the social field of interest. Consequently, the general competencies that students will have to develop are:

• The ability to build and reconstruct conceptual representations that allow them to systematically support critical analyzes and practical diagnoses of specific sociocultural situations, from a sociocultural perspective.
• The ability to problematize and formulate approaches to sociocultural phenomena in which communication, understood as a social production of meaning, can be identified as a factor in the democratization of practices, institutional systems and knowledge in the social environment.
• The ability to base pertinent decision-making in situations of knowledge production for the generation of explanations or for the elaboration of management and intervention strategies in relation to institutional generation practices or systems.

When studying at ITESO

• You take a postgraduate degree accredited by CONACYT in the National Quality Postgraduate Program, as a Program at the International Competition Level.
• You are part of the most important private university in the region in the generation of knowledge in social sciences, communication and culture.
• You are trained in a unique master's program in Mexico, specialized in the communication of science and cultural management
• You participate together with an academic community made up of nationally and internationally recognized professors-researchers, with a large number of publications.
• You have access to the library, one of the most important in the country in the social sciences and humanities, as well as the documentation center of the National Council for the Teaching and Research of Communication Sciences (Coneicc), with more than 10,000 cataloged documents .

Upon graduation from this program

• You will be able to diagnose, design, coordinate and evaluate projects, programs and public communication campaigns of science, cultural management or sociocultural communication practices.
• You will be able to carry out basic and applied research to fulfill higher teaching tasks in the field of communication and sociocultural studies.
• You will be able to participate in scientific and cultural communication tasks from a sociocultural perspective, and you contribute to the creation and development of a scientific and humanistic culture in society.
• You will be able to influence the democratization of science and culture through research, design, planning and professional intervention.

Reasons to study this master's degree

• Postgraduate degree accredited by Conacyt in the National Postgraduate Register as "International Competition".
• The only master's program in Mexico specialized in the communication of science and culture.
• The most important private university in the region in the generation of knowledge in social sciences, communication and culture.
• Professors-researchers recognized nationally and internationally, with a large number of publications.
• Library, one of the most important in the country in social sciences and humanities.
• Documentation Center of the National Council for the Teaching and Research of Communication Sciences (Coneicc), the largest collection specialized in communication in the country, with more than 10,000 cataloged documents.
• Master's degree member of the Mexican Society for the Disclosure of Science and Technology (Somedicyt) and of the Network for the Popularization of Science and Technology for Latin America and the Caribbean (Red-pop).

At ITESO you will find an offer of specialties, masters and doctorates that will help you to be a better professional and to get in touch with prominent representatives of academia, civil organizations, government and business. We are the private university in western Mexico with the most researchers attached to the National System of Researchers and many of our postgraduate programs are recognized by the National Quality Postgraduate Program.

ITESO's postgraduate programs allow you to enter knowledge networks, in which researchers, experts and students share academic, professional, social, cultural and economic projects. By studying at ITESO, you will be able to learn about the work of academics of excellence, with a high human sense in their work, interested in making relevant contributions to knowledge and in offering viable solutions to problems. For these reasons, ITESO is distinguished as the most important private university in western Mexico.

Our teachers are experts in their areas; they are project leaders in which they collaborate with other academics, inside and outside ITESO; they actively contribute to outreach and research projects; and, in addition, they are committed to the values and foundations of our educational project. .

Finally, the Jesuit University System, to which our university belongs, has the largest number of programs in the National Quality Postgraduate Program (PNPC) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) as far as private education is concerned.