Global History of Empires

COURSEWORK REQUIREMENTS
1st year students are required to attend:

• One Core Introductory Seminar in the 1^st term
• The Core Intensive Seminar in the 2^nd term
• Dissertation Prospectus Training Seminar in the 2^nd term
• Dissertation Workshop in the 2^nd term

WRITTEN REQUIREMENTS

1. Dissertation Prospectus, by March.
2. Revised Dissertation Prospectus, by September .

1. March Prospectus and Training Seminar

The first step in the dissertation work is the Dissertation Prospectus, a substantial paper (about 10,000 words: this number includes footnotes but not the bibliography), to be delivered by March. Dissertation prospectus should include research question and research design, historiography and theoretical approaches related to the topic of the dissertation research, description of how the proposed research will be situated in the existing literature on the theme and the intended contribution of the proposed research, analysis of sources that will be used in the dissertation and how they will be analyzed, the proposed structure of the dissertation, and the workplan of the dissertation research.

The March Prospectus is designed to help 1^st year students progress with their thesis and provide feedback on the proposed research at the training seminar. The latter consists of a discussion about the prospectus and is meant to help researchers complete their work on the dissertation prospectus. The dissertation prospectus can be used by students to make introductions and apply for research summer schools and conferences, so it is a very practical document for the life of a doctoral student.

2. Completion of Work on the Dissertation Prospectus and Dissertation Workshop

The revised dissertation prospectus should take into account the feedback from the March training seminar session. The complete dissertation prospectus should have a clear research design and workplan on elements of the dissertation.

The prospectus will be defended in the dissertation workshop at the end of September with the supervisor, the co-supervisor and the other members of the board.

COURSEWORK REQUIREMENTS

2^nd year students are asked to attend:

• 2 ECTS in the coursework offered by the program in the 1^st or 2^nd term
• The Dissertation Workshop in September

Attendance of any other seminars is optional. Researchers are required to get approval from the program coordinator for elective coursework that they wish to pursue if they plan to receive credits for it. In addition, students should take advantage of all opportunities to present the results of their research in conferences, summer schools, and seminars and seek feedback on their research.

WRITTEN REQUIREMENTS

• Outline of the thesis by October.
• A complete chapter of the thesis, by October.
• An article to submit to a peer reviewed journal indexed in Scopus or Web of Science

The outline should be built on the basis of the dissertation prospectus and include an updated table of contents, summaries of research results for each chapter of the dissertation, and a section on the planned work in the future. It should also identify existing problems and challenges of the ongoing research.

Students should start drafting sections (even entire chapters) of the thesis as soon as possible. They must complete at least one chapter and submit it to the program coordinator by October.

Both the outline and the chapter are required for the passage to the third year. They will be discussed in the dissertation workshop at the end of October.

COURSEWORK REQUIREMENTS
3^d year students are asked to attend:

• 2 ECTS in the coursework offered by the program in the 1^st or 2^nd term
• The Dissertation Workshop in September

WRITTEN REQUIREMENTS

• A detailed synopsis of the thesis by October.
• Two complete chapters of the thesis, by October.

The synopsis should include an updated table of contents and detailed abstracts of the chapters. Students must also complete two chapters and submit it to the program coordinator by October. Both the synopsis and the two chapters will be discussed in the dissertation workshop at the end of October.