Humanities
Dottorato di Ricerca

PhD students will do the following activities:

• study and theoretical research
• empirical research that includes the acquisition of the ability to:
  • build a research design
  • make the design operative
  • select the best methodology and survey techniques
  • detect data with quantitative or qualitative tools
  • processing and interpreting data,
  • write a research report
• tutoring activities and teaching activities
• writing reviews and working papers
• participation in conferences
• study stays abroad

Each curriculum course is organized in a series of courses, meetings and seminars involving the active participation of doctoral students and the intervention of both internal and external lecturers of the University.

First year

A) at least 3 seminars common to all doctoral students;

B) Lectures by national and foreign scholars relevant in the field;

C) specialized seminars on defined research topics;

D) trans-curricular courses:

• language courses (curated by the Linguistic Center of the University),
• Computer literacy courses (in collaboration with Cisdel)
• orientation courses for library services and information literacy (use of electronic resources, bibliographic consulence - by the SSBA).

Second Year

For the second year, in addition to seminars and international lectures, it is scheduled to start writing an individual thesis under tutorship, to specify the aim of the thesis and to present an introductory work on the topic and a synthesis of the work already done. PhD students are encouraged to attend national and international conferences and to submit their research results to the most appropriate congress venues.

Third Year

The third year training activity is fundamentally individual, under the guidance of the tutor and specifically addressed to the realization of the doctoral thesis.

Verification of learning will take place on two levels: a. The first one, which is the responsibility of the tutor and other experts of the University in the same field, is carried out in different ways: individual interviews, presentation to the professors, class discussions, oral reports, written exercises, workshops; b. The second, which is responsibility of the “Teachers’ Committee”, consists in presenting each years a report of the activities carried out and a report on the state of progress of the research. At the end of each academic year, the Teachers’ Committeedecides if admitting or not the PhD student to the following year, after the assessment of the activities carried out.