Teaching 2024/25

The teaching programme (made of teaching and training activities) applies to all cycles of the PhD programme. From cycle 40, on an experimental basis, the offer is based on the acquisition of Doctoral Credits. Therefore, the same didactic proposal, including the number of hours for each activity, applies to PhD students of cycles 38 and 39, but without the request for credit recognition. For the purpose of assessing the activities at the end of each year, the requirements are those indicated also in the Learning Outcomes.  Doctoral students are also invited to consult the teaching offer of the PhD  programme in 'Culture Letterarie e Filologiche' and to include some of the activities in their own teaching and training programme.

Doctoral Credits

Doctoral Credits (DCs) measure the workload required to doctoral students in terms of research, training and teaching activities for the achievement of the qualification of PhD. Each DC is worth 25 hours of commitment and doctoral students must complete 60 DCs per year (for a total of 180 DCs between training and teaching plus research over the three-year period). The Course has divided the total amount of DCs between research, training and teaching activities, ensuring that research activity accounts for 78% of the total. The Course has established the minimum amount of DC to be achieved for each of the following activities:

• Disciplinary and multidisciplinary training - minimum 15 cfu over the three-year period
• training related to the acquisition of transversal skills - minimum 1 cfu over the three-year period
• extra-curricular training aimed at the establishment of PhD students as members of a scientific community (summer school, PhD symposium, etc.) - minimum 2 cfu over the three-year period
• dissemination of research results - minimum 1 cfu over the three-year period
• delivered lectures - optional

40 DC must be achieved during the three-year period, equivalent to 22% of the total number of activities. The Course has established its own criteria for determining the number of DCs to be allocated to individual activities, in line with the practices of its own disciplinary field and the University guidelines, as shown in the attached table of credits. Finally, the Course has established the recommended number of DCs to be acquired for training, dissemination and teaching in each year of the course, so as to ensure the balanced performance of these activities with respect to research tasks. Doctoral students, in agreement with their supervisors and co-supervisors, may flexibly define their specific training and research pathways, choosing the activities to be carried out, by type and quantity, within the constraints established by the College for each activity and year of the course. The acquisition of the DCs is verified at the end of each year.

An example of the distribution of Doctoral Credits over the three-year period is shown in the attached table of Doctoral Credits (also shown in the image above).