University of Split Faculty of philosophy POSTGRADUATE DOCTORAL STUDIES IN HUMANITIES Split, 2010. 2 CONTENTS: 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Reasons for establishing doctoral studies 1.2. Evaluation of studies’ purposefulness 1.3. Establishment of cooperative research and thereupon based education 1.4. Comparability with foreign universities programmes, especially with those from the EU 1.5. Former experiences 1.6. Studies' openness according to students' mobility 1.7. The possibility of the studies associating with the foreign universities into joint study programmes 2. GENERAL PART 2.1. The name of the studies 2.2. Head and associate institutions 2.3. Institutional development strategies 2.4. The innovativeness of the studies 2.5. Enrolment requirements 2.6. Criteria and selection of candidates 2.7. Competences, development and employment possibilities 3. PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION 3.1. Studies' structure and organization 3.2. Modules, hours, and ECTS credit 3.2.1. Schematic plan of studies with courses, numbers of hours and ECTS points 3.2.2. Joint programme of the studies: a table of studies, courses, heads of studies and ECTS points. 3.2.3. Module programmes: a table of courses, hours and ECTS points 3.3. Required and elective activities (attendance at seminars, conferences, round tables etc. 3.4. Students' obligations and rhythm of studying 3.5. Courses description with head names 3.5.1. General and joint elective courses 3.5.2. Course descriptions 3.6. Guidance and mentoring system, the selection of candidates, obligations of mentors in regard to students and their doctoral theses 3.7. List of courses and/or modules available to our students from other postgraduate doctoral and specialist study programmes 3.8. List of courses and/or modules available in foreign languages 3.9. Criteria and ECTS credit transferral conditions 3.10. Conditions for completing the studies and request for approval of subject of doctoral thesis 3.11. Conditions under which students who have previously interrupted their studies or lost the right to study at one university programme can continue studies 3.12. Conditions under which students are entitled for the certificate of successful completion of the doctoral studies programme as part of lifelong learning 3. 13. Conditions and means of obtaining a PhD degree by enrolling the doctoral studies and producing a doctoral thesis without attending classes and taking the doctoral exam 3 3.14. Maximum length of studying 4. STUDIES PERFORMANCE CONDITIONS 4.1. Sites of the study programme delivery 4.2. Information on the venues and equipment of lectures delivery with special data on research resources (research equipment, human resources) 4.3. List of scientific and development projects that are the basis of the Doctoral Studies Programme 4.4. Institutional managing of the doctoral studies 4.5. Names of professors and associates 4.6. List of teaching venues (classes delivery bases) (for teaching and researching); consent of the head of each venue where classes are held, verification statement ensuring that the needed equipment and venues are at disposition, in accordance with the studies programme; list and qualifications of associate lecturers and research staff 4.7. Optimal number of students eligible for enrolment considering the studying premises, equipment and number of teaching staff, and with special regard to the number of potential doctoral thesis mentors 4.8. Estimate of study programme cost and enrolment fees per student 4.9. Financing of the doctoral studies 4.10. The quality of the doctoral studies 5. APPENDICES 5.1. tabular scheme of doctoral studies 5.2. An alphabetical list of all courses 5.3. Courses delivery plans 5.4. Staff's curricula vitae and their experience at doctoral studies 4 1. Introduction 1.1. Reasons for establishing doctoral studies The Faculty of Humanities was established at University of Split in 2001, at that time comprising three departments combinable in dual degree programmes – Department of Croatian Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature and Department of Italian Language and Literature. The dislocated Department of History at the University of Zagreb was started in the academic year 2003-2004 on basis of a contract between the University of Split and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Zagreb. On October the 6th 2005 the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split was established with new study programmes and departments: Sociology, Philosophy, History of Art and Pedagogy. In 2008, Centar Studia Mediterranea - the interdisciplinary scientific research centre for humanistic studies was established at the Faculty. In 2010 the Department of Psychology was established. In the same year, the e-learning programme started, developed by the Croatian Studies Centre networked with a dozen universities in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Split seeks to justify its position in the regional development of the humanistic sciences as well as within the University of Split as a whole, with special regard to the postgraduate studies based on the research Centre, interdisciplinarity, interuniversity networks, and its professional orientation towards the Mediterranean component of the Croatian and regional humanistic sciences. In 2010 the first generation of graduates is to complete their studies while some among them are interested in the continuation of their studies at postgraduate scientific and research level. The University is obliged to ensure them that possibility here at the University of Split. There are, therefore, both scientific and professional necessities for establishing postgraduate studies in humanistic sciences that would be oriented towards research and explication and transfer of knowledge. Same reasons apply to the issues of preservation, promotion, systematization and nurturing of the regional cultural heritage. Consequently, the two fundamental reasons for opening the postgraduate studies are: firstly, the need for providing the educational hierarchy and gratifying the scientific-research potentials of the region; secondly, to satisfy the practical regional and state requirements present in tourism, ecology; safekeeping, maintenance, interpretation and presentation of heritage; the potential contribution to research journalism, media, new media, media culture; museums, cultural institutions, libraries and other areas. The doctoral studies in humanities comprising the traditional humanistic disciplines and interdisciplinary components would significantly contribute to better understanding and progress of the region and its fitting in the European integrations. Apart from the mentioned two, the third reason for opening the doctoral studies is their contribution to the development, safeguarding and promoting the tradition, local identification in the global environment, deeper understanding of the tradition and education of educators at the highest level of education. Accordingly, it is vital to note that nowadays every humanistic research and application of knowledge in the domain of humanities is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. For this reason, and on basis of the interdisciplinary humanistic research Centres, the Faculty of 5 Philosophy in Split is a place where different disciplines meet and new research projects are being started. Simultaneously, practically speaking, this fact leads to even more systematic integration of the study disciplines involved in the safekeeping, protection and interpretation of the heritage in Dalmatia, Croatia and the whole of the Mediterranean basin. The studies’ focus on associating with other similar studies in the country and wider region would also contribute to the better communication and strategic planning of the future in which the humanistic disciplines are to have an important position, what, more often than not, has not been the case in our environment so far. The aim of the studies is to prepare the students for scientific and research work in the domains of philosophy, linguistics, Croatian language and literature, history, history of art, Italian language and literature, archaeology and in the interdisciplinary field of the Mediterranean culture, a field that surpasses the closed domains of particular disciplines. In this way, the doctoral students are enabled for work in universities, institutes, museums, galleries, science and research centres and other institutions involved in the preservation of culture, tourist organizations, traditional and new media, including the private sector where it is focused on cultural tourism and managing monuments of culture. 1.2. Evaluation of studies’ purposefulness Postgraduate doctoral studies in humanities enable students for performing independent scientific-research activities, working in higher education sectors, scientific institutions, domain of preservation and safekeeping of cultural heritage, for keeping the pace with the trends in maintaining and promoting cultural tourism, sustainable development and cultural management. The proposed studies would perform this at international level and on basis of aligning the domestic findings with the global system of protection and promotion of local cultures and cultural goods. Exactly this area shows the lack of experts and future leaders, and thus, there is a great need for highly educated doctors in science. Necessities for this kind of practitioners in science and higher education are evident, even more so due to the