The doctoral program consists of three areas of specialization (translation, interpreting, and intercultural studies), with a common set of courses and seminars as well as specific teaching activities focused on the individual areas. Research projects are defined at the beginning of the first year and supervisors assign to students tasks related to their project, such as bibliographical research, identifying key areas of interest, attending conferences, seminars, courses and workshops, data collecting, and field work. Individual research activities are followed and documented through written and oral reports.
First year seminars focus on methodology, both general and specific to each area. Second and third year seminars (at a deeper level) concern specific topics according to the different areas of study and interests of participating doctoral students. Individual research, to be documented by means of written and oral reports, consists in bibliographic research, use of digital corpora, data collection through enquiries (with statistical analysis), creation and analysis of databases, and tests of software for linguistic analysis. During the program, doctoral students participate in national and international conferences, delivering papers to be published in conference proceedings, edited volumes, and national and international journals.
During the program, doctoral students take part in national and international conferences and publish their works in conference proceedings, edited volumes, and national and international journals. The average output per candidate for the three-year program, is 5-6 conference presentations and/or published articles.