History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (PIUDHist)
History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (PIUDHist)
The Programa Interuniversitário de Doutoramento em História: mudança e continuidade num mundo global (PIUDHist) began in the academic year 2008-2009. With an innovative curricular organization, the programme includes four defined fields of specialization following a thematic criterion – social dynamics and political structures; institutions and economic development; empires, colonialism and post-colonialism; intellectual and sociocultural movements – definitively going beyond the traditional organization of PhDs in History in specializations bound to chronological periods. This favours a transversal and comparative training, articulated around medium and long-term approaches, which enhances the scientific quality of training and research.
In Portugal, PIUDHist is the first doctoral programme in History that is based on an interuniversitary parternship, bringing together five Portuguese university institutes:
- Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa)
- Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL)
- ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
- Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)
- Universidade de Évora (UE)
Under agreements signed with other entities, students admitted to PIUDHist can apply for the following doctoral grants.
The Doctor of History degree is awarded to students who obtain a total of 240 ECTS through a single document signed by the four partner Universities:
Obtaining the 240 ECTS is done over a four-year work program that is distributed as follows:
- 60 ECTS in the first two academic semesters that award a Diploma of Advanced Studies in History and the respective diploma supplement, in a single document signed by the four partner Universities.
- 180 ECTS in the remaining three years through the preparation, discussion and approval of a thesis, including participation in 6 biannual monitoring seminars and respective guidance.
1st YEAR - 1st SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Methodology Seminar | 6 ECTS |
Specialised Seminar | 6 ECTS |
Specialised Seminar | 6 ECTS |
Research Design I | 12 ECTS |
Specialized Seminar - 1st SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Social Dynamics and Political Structures I | 6 ECTS |
Institutions and Economic Development I | 6 ECTS |
Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism I | 6 ECTS |
Intellectual and Sociocultural Movements I | 6 ECTS |
1st YEAR - 2nd SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Specialised Seminar | 6 ECTS |
Specialised Seminar | 6 ECTS |
Research Design II | 18 ECTS |
Specialized Seminar - 2nd SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Social Dynamics and Political Structures II | 6 ECTS |
Institutions and Economic Development II | 6 ECTS |
Empires, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism II | 6 ECTS |
Intellectual and Sociocultural Movements II | 6 ECTS |
2nd YEAR - 1st SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar I | 6 ECTS |
Thesis I | 24 ECTS |
2nd YEAR - 2nd SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar II | 6 ECTS |
Thesis II | 24 ECTS |
3rd YEAR - 1st SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar III | 6 ECTS |
Thesis III | 24 ECTS |
3rd YEAR - 2nd SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar IV | 6 ECTS |
Thesis IV | 24 ECTS |
4th YEAR - 1st SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar V | 6 ECTS |
Thesis V | 24 ECTS |
4th YEAR - 2nd SEMESTER
Curricular Units | ECTS |
Monitoring Seminar VI | 6 ECTS |
Thesis VI | 24 ECTS |
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