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Courses and seminars (40-50 hours of frontal teaching), are common to the two curricula; however, if the Board considers it necessary, in-depth lessons dedicated to a specific curriculum can be planned. The lessons are held by the members of the Board; by Sapienza professors external to the Board; by professors external to Sapienza; by professors belonging to foreign institutions, within the framework of the agreement with Univerzita Karlova (Charles University) in Prague or exchange programs (for example Erasmus+) or other agreements and funded research projects. Before or during courses and seminars, doctoral students are provided with an annotated bibliography for further work. The verification of the skills acquired, necessary for the yearly assessment, is carried out by the teachers who hold courses and seminars. The interdisciplinary seminar, common to the two curricula, focuses on the research themes of PhD students. PhD students actively participate in the seminar, independently investigating individual aspects of the proposed topics. On an approximately monthly basis, meetings are scheduled for updating, verification and connection, by the coordinators in Rome and in Prague. The preparatory activities and research aimed at defining the thesis are proposed within the curriculum and have the purpose of deepening specific topics of the disciplinary sector (Germanic studies or Slavic studies). They are guided by supervisors, usually members of the Board or, in specific cases that require it, also external consultants, preferably belonging to universities that have scientific and didactic collaboration relationships with Sapienza. The training and research activities independently chosen by the student (for example the attendance of courses, conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, scientific collaborations) and subjected to the evaluation of supervisors, are approved by the Board. Each PhD student must study a foreign language chosen from those present in the curriculum to which he does not belong, with the minimum objective of understanding the written text; learn computer skills necessary to carry out research in the humanities. An introductory seminar on academic writing and scientific project writing completes the first year training.
See Delivered Study Plan for the timetable 2021-2022
Method of choosing the subject of the thesis
Each PhD student is assigned a supervisor and a co-supervisor with specific skills related to the chosen research area. The topic of the thesis, which must be defined within the first year of the course, will first be the subject of consultation with the supervisors, then submitted to the approval of the Board.
Admission to the second year
A report by the PhD student on the work done (both with regard to the in-depth analysis necessary for the choice of the thesis, and for the other training activities) must first be subjected to the evaluation of the supervisors, who will quantify in ECTS the results achieved, and of the curriculum; then, after an interview with the PhD student, to the approval of the Board.
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