Study plan for the academic year 2021/2022


List of courses / activities for the first year

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Metodologie della ricerca storico-letteraria 7
Metodologie della ricerca filologica 7
Metodologie della ricerca linguistica 7
Seminario interdisciplinare 7
Attività formative e di ricerca autonomamente scelte dal dottorando 7
Attività propedeutiche e ricerche finalizzate alla definizione della tesi 5
Altra lingua straniera germanica o slava secondo il curriculum 7
Ricerche bibliografiche e competenze informatiche 7
Introduzione a scrittura accademica e stesura progetti scientifici 4
Incontri periodici di aggiornamento e verifica 2

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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.

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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.


List of courses / activities for the second year

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Analisi stilistica/analisi linguistica - letterature/testi di lingue germaniche 6
Analisi stilistica/analisi linguistica - letterature/testi di lingue slave 6
Storia della critica letteraria/Storia della linguistica/Studi Interculturali 6
Corsi istituzionali e seminari presso la sede partner 18
Ricerche finalizzate alla stesura della tesi 20
Attività formative e di ricerca autonomamente scelte dal dottorando 4

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Courses and seminars (40-45 hours of frontal teaching), are common to the two curricula as regards the teaching provided at Sapienza in the Winter semester; they are partly common, partly articulated on the basis of the curriculum as regards the teaching provided in the Summer semester at the partner university. The stylistic or linguistic analysis lessons are mainly dedicated to the literatures and languages ​​in which the PhD students have chosen to specialize. The lessons of history of literary criticism, history of linguistics and intercultural studies represent in-depth studies from which the most appropriate to the profile of the research undertaken by the PhD students are selected by supervisors. Lessons are given 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 Charles University or exchange programs (e.g. Erasmus) or other agreements and funded research projects. Before or during courses and seminars, PhD students are provided with an annotated bibliography for further work. The assessment of the skills acquired is carried out by the teachers who hold courses and seminars. In the Summer semester, institutional courses and seminars must be attended at Charles University; at the end of the semester each PhD student takes a state exam with a methodological and theoretical content, preparatory to the discussion of the dissertation. Other mobility, aimed at perfecting individual research and the overall preparation of the student, will be spent at universities or other foreign research institutions, as part of collaboration agreements or other mobility agreements (for example Erasmus+). The training and research activities independently chosen by the student (for example the attendance of conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, scientific collaborations), are approved by the supervisors and by the Board.

Method of preparation of the thesis

During the second year, the PhD student conducts research aimed at drafting the thesis. The research is conducted under the supervision of the supervisors, who assess its congruence and effectiveness.

Admission to the third year

Each PhD student submits a report on the work carried out (both with regard to the in-depth analysis necessary for the thesis, and for the other planned training activities, including the semester spent abroad) to the evaluation of the supervisors; then, after an interview, to the approval of the Academic Board.


List of courses / activities for the third year

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Conferenze e seminari di approfondimento 4
Seminario interdisciplinare 10
Conferenza di fine corso 10
Attività formative e di ricerca autonomamente scelte dal dottorando 10
Attività finalizzate alla stesura della tesi 26

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Conferences and seminars on ongoing research are proposed by the members of the Board and have the purpose of deepening specific topics. They are preferably held by external professors, in order to present to the doctoral candidates themes and research perspectives different from those practiced within the Board. The interdisciplinary seminar, common to the two curricula, focuses on a theme included in the research lines active in the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies. PhD students take an active part in it. At the end of the Summer semester of the third year of course, PhD students organize a conference open to the academic community during which they present the results of their research. More than 50% of the total activity of the third year of the course is devoted to research: to the writing of the thesis and to other research activities, such as active participation in conferences, preparation of reports and scientific articles. In addition to the compulsory semester spent at the partner institution during the second year of the course, in the third year PhD students will complete their training at a foreign university or research institution, in order to perfect the documentation of their research and to acquire or consolidate useful relationships for the continuation of their activity after obtaining the title. The educational and research activities chosen independently by the PhD student (e.g. attendance of conferences and seminars in Italy and abroad, scientific collaborations) and submitted to the evaluation of tutors and co-advisors, are approved by the Board. Subject to the approval of the Board of teachers and under the supervision of the tutor, PhD students can carry out supplementary teaching activities (exercises, seminars and tutoring) within a maximum of 40 hours, according to Article 14, paragraph 5 of the current Regulations. This activity, guided by the supervisor, is aimed at forming the teaching skills of PhD students and conceived as a training internship.

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Method of admission to the final examination

A report by the PhD student on the work carried out, already submitted to the evaluation of supervisors (who quantify in credits the results achieved), must be approved by the Board. The Board compiles a report on the presentation of the thesis which, together with a report by the PhD student on the activities carried out during the three years, is submitted to the evaluation of two external teachers, appointed by the Board. Once this procedure is completed and, starting from the 35th cycle, once the formalities provided for in the contract establishing the joint doctorate with the Univerzita Karlova (Charles University) have been fulfilled, the PhD student will be admitted to the final examination.



Final examination

The public discussion of the thesis will take place in front of a commission composed of three members (exclusively for doctoral students of the 34th cycle who have been granted an extension due to the pandemic in progress) or seven members (from the 35th cycle on) chosen from professors and researchers belonging to the SSDs present in the PhD, according to art. 18 of the Regulation on Research Doctorates and the rules laid down in the contract establishing the joint PhD programme with Charles University. 


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