Guidelines of the Doctorate Degree Plan of the Macro-area of EGUS

The doctorates of the Macro-area of Economics, Law, Humanities, and Social Sciences are based on academic activity according to the following points:

• Interdisciplinary activity will be credited and concentrated in the first semester of the first year of the doctorate (January-June).

• As for academic activity of the macro-area, there will be a cycle of themed seminars, numbering at least as many as the number of doctorate programs in the macro-area. These seminars will be presented as dialogues that deal with a theme chosen each time from the different perspectives of law, economics, and literature. In some cases, the same seminar may be given by faculty of different disciplines, treating the theme with a comparative and explicitly interdisciplinary outlook.

It is planned that at the beginning of every year of the doctorate the theme for the macro-area’s cycle of seminars will be chosen. Among the possible themes are the following:

-         Interpretation

-         Past, Present, and Future of the University

-         Intellectual Property

-         Bioethics

-         The Future of Our Generation

-         Symbols, Brands, Identity

-         Collective Interests

-         Europe between Africa, the Americas, and the East

Participants of these seminars will be doctorate students enrolled in the doctorate programs of the macro-area, but obviously these activities will also always be open to doctorate students enrolled in the other two macro-areas. Attendance at such activities may be credited in both in the first and the second year of the doctorate.

• With reference to the academic activity within the doctorate programs themselves (coursework designed specifically towards the individual doctorates and towards the specific themes of research assigned to the individual doctorate students), academic activity planned autonomously by the individual faculty advisors will be proposed and encouraged, in relation to the available financial resources.                                                                                                                              Such academic activity obviously will be done during the entire three years of the doctorate and will be credited in progressively larger proportions during the three years in respect to the two previous types of academic activity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

• In this general description of academic activity, developed on three levels and spread over the entire three years of the doctorate, the following distribution of the 60 annual credits is suggested:

1^st Year of the Doctorate

Interdisciplinary Activity………………………………..         10 credits

Academic activity in the Macro-area……………………    20 credits

Academic activity in the individual doctorate program….          30 credits

2^nd Year of the Doctorate                                                                             

Academic activity in the Macro-area……………………    20 credits

Academic activity in the individual doctorate program….          40 credits

3^rd Year of the Doctorate

Academic activity in the individual doctorate program….          60 credits

It is suggested that faculty advisors include in the 60 credits planned for the third year the activity of writing and revising the final doctorate thesis.