Doctoral programme of the UPF Doctoral School, governed by Royal Decree 99/2011
Program with a Mention of Quality concedes by the Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation of Quality (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad, ANECA)
UPF master's programmes preceding this doctorate
In the first, covering the first academic year, the students must complete 5 ECTS credits and defend their doctoral thesis project before a committee of experts, which will evaluate the feasibility of the proposed research. In the second, after the project has been approved, the student must register the thesis, and the deadlines for its presentation and defence are counted from that point.
Doctorate research lines
| Duration of the training period |
1 year |
| Duration of the research period | 3 years |
| Languages | Catalan, Spanish and English |
| Places available | 30 |
| Organized |
Departament of Humanities |
| Calendar and time schedule | 1-10-2012 to 31-5-2013 |
| Location | Ciutadella campus |
Presentation
The doctorate programme in History falls within the innovative current of World History or Global History, which emphasizes the study of the interconnections between different human societies and how they have evolved over time. It seeks to explain major issues and problems in human history from a global and transtemporal perspective. Its objective is to make the radical changes being experienced by society in the twenty-first century and the challenges facing it more intelligible. The programme has received the quality mention from the Ministry of Education and Science since the first round, and in 2011 it received the excellence mention from the Ministry of Education.UPF master's programmes preceding this doctorate
Training objectives
To complete the training of students who have completed an official master's degree in History, as historians developing their skills and abilities in the research field by writing a doctoral thesis.Academic Contents
The doctoral studies are organized in two stages.In the first, covering the first academic year, the students must complete 5 ECTS credits and defend their doctoral thesis project before a committee of experts, which will evaluate the feasibility of the proposed research. In the second, after the project has been approved, the student must register the thesis, and the deadlines for its presentation and defence are counted from that point.
Doctorate research lines
- Archeology, prehistory and the history of the ancient Mediterranean (I): Phoenician and Greek archeology. Cultural contacts, diasporas and colonial systems in the ancient Mediterranean.
- Archeology, prehistory and the history of the ancient Mediterranean (III): archaeology of everyday life: women's, family and gender studies.
- Archeology, prehistory and the history of the ancient Mediterranean (III): social archeology: identities, communities, and rituals.
- Medieval history (I): history of the Catalan counties in Carolingian Europe.
- Medieval history (II): history of the Crown of Aragon.
- Medieval (and modern) history (III): an approach based on "World History" to the comparative history of hunger and crises of subsistence.
- Comparative history of the Spanish Empire (II): colonization and decolonization in the European, American, and African arenas (15th-20th centuries).
- Comparative history of the Spanish Empire (II): colonial history of Latin America and the history of the formation of the Latin American states (16th-19th centuries).
- Comparative history of the Spanish Empire (II): history of modern and contemporary empires (conflicts, contacts and transfers with the Spanish empire).
- History of Latin America (19th and 20th centuries).
- Catalonia and Spain in modern Europe (I): political and institutional history of modern Catalonia (16th-18th centuries).
- Catalonia and Spain in modern Europe (II): modern Spain in the European context (17th and 18th centuries).
- Catalonia and Spain in modern Europe (III): labour, the corporation and the profession in modern Europe.
- History of contemporary Catalonia, Spain and Europe (I): political history, social history, economic history and cultural history of Catalonia and Spain (19th and 20th centuries).
- History of contemporary Catalonia, Spain and Europe (II): comparative history of nationalisms; federalism, confederalism and concepts of sovereignty in a comparative perspective.
- History of contemporary Catalonia, Spain and Europe (III): history of contemporary Europe and its relations with Catalonia and Spain: war, revolution and counterrevolution in Europe and in Spain (19th and 20th centuries); history of Germany and Spanish-German relations (19th and 20th centuries).
- History of modern and contemporary Asia (II): history of China, history of Sino-European relations and history of the Chinese diasporas.
- History of modern and contemporary Asia (II): history of the Philippines and the Spanish Empire in Asia (16th-20th centuries).
- History of modern and contemporary Asia (III): comparative history of modern empires in Asia; imperial transitions, Asian decolonizations and global balances (19th-21st centuries).
- Historical research within academic interdisciplinarity (I): history of science and global history.
- Historical research within academic interdisciplinarity (II): history of law and comparative history.
- Historical research within academic interdisciplinarity (III): history of art and cultural history.
Competences that will be attained after completing the programme
The specific competences include:
- Acquisition of a level of education that incorporates the most advanced knowledge in a research line in the doctorate in history, from both the theoretical and methodological perspectives.
- Application of appropriate theoretical/historiographical and heuristic methods.
- Awareness of the specialist literature and electronic sources.
- The ability to express the issues and problems encountered orally and in writing.
- Identification and description of significant historical periods, patterns of civilization and processes of economic, political, social and religious change, from a global and comparative perspective.
- Awareness that the process of globalization, understood as the set of political, economic and cultural relations between the peoples of the world, has deep roots in the past.
Career prospects
Teaching, research, cultural management, archives, museums, the publishing world.
Specific grants or scholarships for the doctorate
Those available for postgraduate students in public calls for applications by the Government of Spain and the Government of Catalonia