Dptº de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas - Univ. Miguel Hernández

The Department of Social and Human Sciences is an interdisciplinary endeavor searching for the understanding of social life. There are five main fields of knowledge: literature, social anthropology, political science, journalism and audiovisual communication. The department’s faculty lectures in different undergraduate degree programs: journalism, social and cultural anthropology, arts, political science and public management, as well as in two M.A. courses: new trends in anthropology, and equality and gender studies. The department is responsible for three Ph.D. programs: new journalism models, applied anthropology, and women and gender studies. Their research efforts are grouped in three fields: Communication in the Autonomous Region of Valencia (GICOV), Economy, Culture and Gender (ECULGE), and Culture, Tourism and (Cooperation for) Development (CULTURDES).