Objectives and Competences
Doctoral Programme in Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Specialisations in History, Art, Philosophy and Ancient Sciences
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Objectives
1. Designed as an interdisciplinary programme, the PhD in Advanced Studies in Humanities is a newly created proposal that aims to provide research training in four specialities: History, Art-Fine Arts, Philosophy and Ancient Sciences. The cooperation amongst these forms an integrated learning environment that offers students a new, diverse and up-to-date perspective on research in human sciences. The programme is based on two main academic axes: stable curricular collaboration at Bachelor's and Master's level, and interdisciplinary and international cooperation in research projects and networks. It is these two axes, and the experience derived from them, that have enabled this joint programme to be outlined and agreed upon, which responds in an integrated manner to the challenges and expectations of the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area.
2. In the first case, curricular collaboration officially began in the academic year 2009/2010 with the launch of the bachelor's degrees, although preparations involved two years of preliminary work. During this time, the joint deliberations brought to light the many arguments in favour of cooperation, as the affinities are much deeper than a traditional view of the humanities might suggest. Indeed, modern humanities have significantly recovered their original meaning as liberal arts, as the learning of civic freedoms, and thus as the pursuit of knowledge guided by the freedom of enquiry.
3. However, at the same time, the modern humanities reveal their diverse nature. It is this irreducible and expansive diversity which explains their interdisciplinary sense: the human sciences are both the result of a close relationship between disciplines that study the reconstruction and interpretation of the past, artistic creation and intellectual debates, as a means of access to the social sciences and the rest of the great areas of knowledge. Although it is these which also show the richness of their research resources to explore the present.
Competences
Note: The codes correspond to the classification of the Ministry of Education for the electronic application Doctorates (Memoria Verifica-study plan evaluation mechanism ANECA).
Basic Competences
CB11: Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
CB12: Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
CB13: Ability to contribute to the broadening of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
CB14: Ability to conduct critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
CB15: Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the ways and language commonly used in their international scientific community.
CB16: Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
Personal Skills and Abilities
CA01: Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.
CA02: Find the key questions to be answered in order to solve a complex problem.
CA03: Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
CA04: Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
CA05: Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information.
CA06: Critique and intellectual defence of solutions.
Other Competences
C1: Willingness to review and deepen previous knowledge from a new multidisciplinary perspective.
C2: Willingness to participate in training activities within the framework of the international teaching and research cooperation networks facilitated by the PhD programme.
C3: Ability to translate the results of multidisciplinary and international learning into presentations at congresses and in quality publications.
