Programme Structure
Programme Structure
Over the 4-year trajectory of the PhD programme, doctoral candidates have a meet a number of milestones which are defined each year for the new PhD cycle. The current milestones are provided in this document
| Cycle XXXIX | ||||
| 1° YEAR 2023/2024 | ||||
| Term 1 – September/ December 2023 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Philosophy of social science | Sillari | 20 | 5 | |
| Theory in Political Science I: Democracy and representation | De Sio and Angelucci | 20 | 5 | |
| Quantitative Methods | Paolo Bellucci | 20 | 5 | |
| Research Design | Emanuele | 20 | 5 | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| 29 | ||||
| Term 2 – February/ May 2024 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Contemporary debates in Political Theory | Gentile | 20 | 5 | |
| Theory in Political Science II: IR, Political Economy & European Integration | Sergio Fabbrini, Thomas Christiansen, Raffaele Marchetti, Mark Thatcher | 20 | 5 | |
| Qualitative Methods | Thatcher and Stoeckl | 20 | 5 | |
| Research Skills I | Christiansen and others | 10 | 3 | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| 27 | ||||
| 2° YEAR 2024/2025 | ||||
| Term 1 – September / December 2024 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Applied Quantitative Methods | Paparo | 20 | 5 | |
| Applied Qualitative Methods | Thatcher and Stoeckl | 20 | 5 | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 40 | 10 | |
| 24 | ||||
| Term 2 – February/ May 2025 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Mixed methodology course | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| Research skills II | Christiansen and Stoeckl | 10 | 2 | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 8 | 2 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 60 | 15 | |
| 26 | ||||
| 3° YEAR 2025/2026 | ||||
| Term 1 – September / December 2025 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 60 | 15 | |
| 25 | ||||
| Term 2 – February/ May 2026 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| Thesis Research and Writing | TBC | 60 | 15 | |
| 25 | ||||
| 4° YEAR 2026/2027 | ||||
| Subject | Professor | hs | CFU | |
| Departmental Research Seminar | TBC | 36 | 9 | |
| PhD seminar in Politics | TBC | 20 | 5 | |
| Thesis Completion and Submission | TBC | 280 | 70 | |
| Total | 240 | |||
