After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• describe and identify the basic aspects of traditional culture
• carry out independent research
• use the basic methods of ethnology in practice
• analyse sources and literature
• create syntheses in the form of publications

The employment of graduates is based not only on what they focus on professionally (cultural sphere, state administration, monument care), but also on their self-reliance, creativity, and ability to make assessments and make decisions developed throughout their studies, which opens a whole range of possible employment for them mainly in the field of services. The acquired knowledge can be used in purely scientific or popularising and presentational areas. The extensive knowledge together with training in methodology provides graduates with a sufficient foundation for working in academic departments and museum institutions, for taking part in scientific and pedagogical activities at universities, and for working in education, including leading and developing leisure activities with nonprofit organizations working with ethnic minorities, even at the international level (e.g. humanitarian organizations, etc.).

The standard length of the doctoral programme studies is eight semesters. To be able to sit the final state doctoral exam, altogether 240 credits for type A/required, type B/selective, and type C/elective subjects have to be obtained. The type A/required subjects form the foundation of the studies, focusing on deepening the knowledge in the field of study and writing the dissertation. The type B/selective subjects (Special Lecture I, II) are agreed upon with the supervisor and are based on the offer of the Department of European Ethnology study programme. A one-semester study stay abroad is also an option. To enrol in a subsequent semester, 20 credits are needed.

In later years of study, full time doctoral degree students are involved in the classes given in the Bachelor’s degree study programme, where they provide optional courses related to the topics they deal with in their doctoral degree theses. Similarly, they supervise and evaluate Bachelor’s degree theses connected to the topics dealt with in their doctoral degree theses.

In addition to this, students have a five-hour duty in the department library every week, during which they catalogue publications in the Aleph system, archive photographs, or archive students’ work in the Bach system (field research, questionnaires, etc.). Additional work is assigned by their individual supervisors.

Doctoral degree students take active part in other activities of the department, e.g. the Week of Human Sciences; they present their work at the regular meetings of the Department of European Ethnology doctoral degree students, and take part in specific research at the department.

The conditions for successful graduation from this doctoral degree study programme are:

1) earning 240 credits in the standard length of study

2) successful defence of the dissertation

3) passing the doctoral state examination in the following areas:

a) ethnological research (methods, techniques); interpretation of basic research methods and the methodology of ethnology;

b) the history of Czech ethnology/ethnography/folkloristics (important representatives, basic works, journals in the field of study, institutions); knowledge of scientific literature in the field of study;

c) aspects of Czech folk culture (the material, social, and spiritual culture of the Czech ethnic group, the ethnographic division into districts, and the differentiation of the Czech lands); explaining the systematics of traditional culture;

d) basic terms from the fields of ethnology and cultural anthropology (in the recommended literature);

e) the history of social and cultural anthropology;

f) evaluating the ethnic history and issues of Europe.