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First year of doctoral programme
PhD students enrolled in the first year are required to attend the training programme provided by the Academic Board, which includes:
→ one or more intensive cycles of lessons, specifically designed to offer an adequate methodological and thematic introduction to the main disciplinary areas of the PhD programme;
→ a course specifically aimed at learning the processing of written scientific texts or oral presentations in English, carried out by a native speaker or by a teacher of equivalent linguistic level.
The courses take place from January to June of the first year, on a three-weekly basis, for at least 100 hours of lessons.
The Academic Board discusses and identifies at the beginning of each academic year one or more key themes of interdisciplinary relevance, around which the lessons of the teachers involved in the training course are articulated.
The Phd programmes aim to present the key themes under the different methodological and heuristic perspectives of the following thematic areas:
Political philosophy
Economics of development
History of doctrines and political institutions
Political science
Sociology of political phenomena
General sociology
Legal sociology
History of international relations
Modern and contemporary history
In addition to the teaching programme, the PhD students can agree with the Academic Board the attendance of specific courses among those proposed by the Department of Political Sciences or by Sapienza University or by other Italian or foreign universities.
Particular encouragement will be given from the first year to spend periods of training / research abroad, to be carried out in the second half of the academic year.
Examples of key themes of the didactic offer of the last PhD cycles:
- The keywords of politics, for doctoral students of the XXIV cycle;
- Spaces and times of politics, for doctoral students of the XXXV cycle;
- Emergency, exception, crisis; The passions of politics, for doctoral students of the XXXVI cycle.
For the year 2021, the program with the details for each lesson is available online on the news page.
Method of choosing the subject of the thesis
1st Year
The Academic Board evaluates the research proposals submitted by the PhD students and, also taking their opinion into account, assigns to a teacher-tutor the task of refining the topics and supervising the three-year research activity. The tutor is chosen from among the members of the Academic Board and is assisted, if necessary, by another teacher or expert in the subject belonging to other Italian or foreign universities or institutions, in the latter case through co-tutorship agreements.
Admission to the second year
The results of the research and training work carried out by the PhD students are verified quarterly by the teacher-tutors. At the end of the year, the PhD students submit to the Academic Board a written report on the training and research activities they have completed. The Board, heard the opinion of the teacher / tutors, admits or does not admit doctoral students to the following year of the program.
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