Doctoral Programme in Contemporary History

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Research lines
• Quality

• Training complement
• Cross functional activities
• Training activities

The Academic committee will agree that students, according to their previous professional specialisation, carry out, apart from the specific information of the doctoral programme, training complements that in all
cases will be constituted by modules and/or subjects of the University Master’s Degree in Contemporary History.

For those students who accede with a Master’s Degree certification or equivalent in historical periods different to the Contemporary Age, the Academic Committee will assign them a maximum of 30 credits corresponding to the subjects of the module 2 of the University Master’s Degree in Contemporary History. For those students who accede with a Master’s Degree or equivalent in other Humanities or in Social Sciences, the Academic Committee will assign them until a maximum of 40 credits which will include their totality in the module 1 an corresponding to the subjects of the module 2 of the University Master’s Degree in Contemporary History. Those who accede with Master’s Degree qualifications in the other great fields of knowledge will be required to fully study, save in exceptional and justified cases, the University Master’s Degree in Contemporary History.

For those who credit the research proficiency of a Doctoral Programme regulated by the RD 185/85 or are holders of a Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (DEA-a tertiary education degree) regulated in the RD 778/98, programme the Academic Committee will assign them up to a maximum of 30 credits when the training set up has been reached in a programme corresponding to the field of history and up to a maximum of 40 when such training correspond to other humanistic disciplines or to social sciences. Those who access with research sufficiency or a Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (DEA-a tertiary education degree) in the other great fields of knowledge will be required to complete , except for justified cases, the University Master’s Degree in Contemporary History.

Under no circumstances students will be admitted with the certification of Diplomatura or technical enginery or equivalent of a duration inferior or equivalent to 240 ECTS. In these events, students will have to request the admission and complete, previously to their admission to the Doctoral Studies, the Master’s Degree in Contemporary History.

The Doctoral Programme will offer, among others, seminars delivered by visiting professors who participate in the frame of the mobility programmes of the excellence award. It will also set out a group of seminars which will complete the cross-disciplinary competencies of Doctoral students.