Study plan

1. State doctoral exam. It is a public exam and it takes place in front of a committee of specialists in the field, two of them must be external. Having consulted his or her tutor and the doctoral board, the PhD student chooses three areas of study that must not be identical or similar to the topic of his or her thesis. Areas of study are meant to extend students' knowledge in the field and their argumentation skills. Areas of study cover sychronic as well diachronic Romance linguistics.
2. Defence of PhD thesis. The thesis s judged by two specialists and one of them must be external. The defence is public and it takes place in front of a committee of specialists in the field, two of them must be external.

The key components of the study duties are related to the preparation and processing of the dissertation, which represents a comprehensive scientific publication based on original research.
Compulsory students’ activities are formulated in their individual study plans. Besides compulsory courses, there are other students’ activities related to their study and research: participation in at least two scientific conferences and publication of at least one study in a peer-reviewed journal are required. Other professional activities at the department may include, for example, teaching, editorial work, cooperation at organizing academic events, etc.
Part of the study is also a study stay at a foreign university or other research institution chosen with regard to the dissertation theme and allowing for consultation with foreign experts and the research of current secondary literature. It is assumed that this foreign internship will correspond to one semester and can eventually be divided in several periods involving more than one institution.
Compulsory subjects of doctoral studies include three types of courses.
Courses directly linked to the regular completion of the study are Research and Study (ROMDSPVJ), Doctoral Thesis Abstract (ROMDTDP), Doctoral Exam (ROMDZKJ) and Doctoral Thesis (ROMDP).
Other compulsory courses are focused on training in the field. History of Romance Languages (ROMDJA1) and the History of Linguistics (ROMDJA2) represent the general basis of the field. In other courses, students focus directly on their specialization, consulting the supervisors during the process. These Courses comprise two Doctoral Seminars (ROMJASEM1 and ROMJASEM2), two conference papers (ROMDR1 and ROMDR1), a Scientific Paper (ROMDOP01) and a Foreign Internship (ROMDZS). Grant Application (ROMZG) responds to the need to focus on grant applications.
Other compulsory subjects include common base of all doctoral programs, i.e. two courses of Philosophy for Doctoral Studies (PHDZ1 and PHDZ1) and at least one Foreign language course to be chosen from (CJV_D_A, CJV_D_F, CJV_D_N, CJV_D_R, CJV_D_S).
Students pass other optional courses too. There is no fixed limit to the number of subjects and a great degree of freedom is given to students according to their own interest. However, it is always true that students enroll optional courses in agreement with the supervisor. These are either courses from their own areas where the student make use of results of their own research (ROMDOP02 Scientific Paper II, ROMDR3 Conference Presentation III, ROMGC Allocation of a Grant, or others) or they comprise courses offered by other collaborating departments (AJ32058 Analysis of Discourse, AJ32059 Use of Modern Technologies in Humanities, CJDSL001 Corpus Linguistics, CJDSL002 Critical Work with Data I, CLDS_a28 Translation Theory for Doctoral Studies, LgDEA09 Experimental Syntax and Semantics, LgDEA10 Critical Work with Data II, PGDS00EV Ethics of Research). Students choose optional courses in agreement with their supervissor.

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