Courses

The program has a training pathway characterized by course credits (40) and dissertation credits (60). Each credit corresponds to 15 hours. The forty-course credits consist of 18 credits from mandatory courses, 18 from elective courses, and 4 credits dedicated to scientific production (submission of articles to qualified journals, books, and book chapters; participation in field-related events with oral or poster presentations; organization of events in the field; and other technical works).

Course Offerings

Mandatory for Both Research Lines

Interdisciplinarity in Research in Human and Social Sciences: Epistemological and Methodological Foundations
Ethics and Research Methodology in Human and Social Sciences Studies
Studies on the Human Condition in Contemporaneity

Electives

Interdisciplinary Topics – Semester-Specific Offerings
Interdisciplinary Topics 2
Discourses, Laughter, and Humor in Contemporary Society
Subjects and Identities in Contemporary Society
The Fabric of Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Feminist Theories, Body, Posthumanism, and New Materialism
Social Movements and Environmentalism
Media Narratives and Contemporary Subjects
Marxism: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Study of the Human Condition in Contemporary Times
Studies on Intersectionality and the Consubstantiality of Difference Markers
Discourse, Biopolitics, and the Constitution of the Individual from a Foucauldian Perspective
Education and Popular Culture: Dialogues on Subjectivation Processes
Digital Objects and Network Sociability – Examining the Conditions of Digital Presence on the Web
Processes of Individuation and Contemporary Challenges
Body, Technology, Matter, and Nature: Studies on Inhabiting Earth and Other Worlds
Education, Communication, and Feminisms

Teaching Internship

PESCD – Supervised Teaching Training Program (Mandatory for Scholarship Holders)