The Master's Thesis (TFM), 9 credits, must be supervised by a member of the teaching staff.Students may choose to have a second person as an external co-tutor to the master only if its academic relevance is justified with regard to the topic addressed in the TFM and/or it is part of the student mobility strategy.

The TFM culminates with an oral defence requested by the person who has supervised it, after issuing an approval report (if there is co-tutor, a joint assessment will be issued).The TFM will be defended before an assessment committee comprising the tutor and two other professors, both of whom must have a doctoral degree and ideally will have been chosen for their knowledge of the subject, with the approval of the Master coordinators.

The TFM may take the form of a practical/analytical report or a formal research paper.This opens up the possibility of a more professional exercise or one more suited to anyone who intends to follow a research pathway with a view to doing a doctoral degree.In the former case, the TFM will consist of applying the knowledge acquired during the Master to a specific case and will reflect on its development, success and feasibility.In the latter case, the TFM will be based on the analysis of a problem of political communication that solves a research question by using a scientific methodology and a theoretical approach.

In the research pathway, the thesis can be conceived as the documented state of the art of the suggested subject, a commentary of the basic bibliography and, especially, an explicit outline of/guide to developing a future Doctoral Thesis, raising the different problems it involves and their possible solutions.