Study plan

The Final State Examination consists of three thematic realms, to which were dedicated special courses in the frame of a doctoral study curriculum.

1) The Metholodogy of the Sciences of Man (Humanities)
2) The History of Aesthetics and Culture
3) Concepts and Methods of Aesthetic Theory

The content is specified in the descriptions of the study courses, but it also takes in consideration the specialization of a candidate.

A disertation in progress - during the whole period of doctoral study.
Defense of the disertational theses - in the 5th semester of study programe.
Publications: publishing continuously during the study and output of at least two articles in the impacted periodicals.
Teaching and tutorship. A doctoral student lectures and participates in the curriculum, he tutors diploma theses up to 10% of his/her study plan.
An academic stage in a foreign country lasting 1 month (min.).
A presentation of a conference paper (at least one international conference).

Suggested themes:
Oleg Sus and his Theory of Absurd
The Poetic Function in the Works of Roman Jakobson
The Aesthetics of Comics and the Popular Culture
Analogical Cognition in the Frame of the Neuro-Sciences
Masaryk's aesthetics

Defended themes:
The Dimension of Privacy in Joseph Roth's Narrative Prose
The Aesthetic Categories in De Amore
Dandyism and Bohemia: Karásek, Marten, Breisky
Aesthetic Interpretation of Love and Death in Consideration of Hölderlin's and Rilke's Works
The aesthetic principles of the French formal gardening
Anglo-American Reception Ingarden's Concept of the Literary Work
A Theory of Photography in the Context of Visual Culture: The Question of Aesthetic Evaluation