Courses

The Ph.D programme includes attending a PhD lectures and seminars series explicitly organised for the Ph.D students and classes in the Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Multi-level Governance (the University of Padova, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies).

The specialised lectures and seminars series includes:

- methodological seminars (6 ECTS credits) on:

• research design;

• quantitative methods in social research;

• qualitative methods in social research;

- Human rights seminars (4 ECTS credits), on:

• doctrinal approaches to Human Rights;

• interdisciplinary approaches to Human Rights.

Lectures and seminars offered in the past academic years are available on the Conferences and Seminars page.

The Ph.D programme requires students to attend master’s classes and pass their respective examinations for a minimum of 30 ECTS credits. PhD candidates choose the classes in agreement with their supervisors in fields relevant to the research project they have to develop.

Lectures, seminars, and classes are an inherent part of the Ph.D experience, along with doing individual and supervised research, drafting the final dissertation, publishing in academic journals, and actively participating within the doctorate’s international community.