The essential purpose of the PhD student is the preparation of his doctoral thesis, but students enrolled under RD 99/2011 must carry out a series of mandatory training activities established by law. In the doctoral program in French Studies, the activities will be annually registered in the computer application RAPI 2 and evaluated by the Academic Committee of the program. In the moment of processing the doctoral thesis, the candidate will be required to accredit those training activities with their corresponding certificates.

 

 

ACTIVITY 1. Intensive seminar on digital methodological update.

The seminar aims to teach students how to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a privileged access to scientific documentation. Today it is an essential requirement for the development of any research activity.

Periodicity: every year

Hours: 20

Full-time students: semester S1

Part-time students: semester S1 or S3

Evaluation: by the seminar coordinator.

 2023-2024 information here.

 

ACTIVITY 2.  Attendance to a Doctoral Training Seminar

This seminar consists of 2 parts: a scientific module, preferably related to theoretical aspects or methodological introduction; and a module of scientific discussion also called “PhD Students Conferences”, in which students present, in a 10 or 15 minute presentation, the progress of their work and submit it to the discussion and debate with the professors of the program.

All doctoral students must attend it and participate in it at least once in the whole period they remain in the program.

Periodicity: every year

Hours: 20

Full-time students: semester S2

Part-time students: semester S2 or S4

Evaluation: by the seminar coordinator.

 

 

ACTIVITY 3. Speaker in the Doctoral Training Seminar

All PhD students must submit, at least once, the progress of their work to the professors of the program.

Full-time students: semester S4

Part-time students: semester S4 or S6

Evaluation: the professors participating in the seminar

Musée Camille Claudel

The Camille Claudel Museum, opened in 2017, rescues this excellent sculptor from oblivion to which the patriarchal society had condemned her for challenging bourgeois prejudices, as a woman and as an artist. Photo 1: Camille Claudel Museum in Nogent-sur-Seine, www.provins.net/decouvrir-visiter/samuser-au-musee/musee-camille-claudel/ Photo 2: Cam ille Claudel en 1884, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel#/media/Archivo:Camille_Claudel.jpg

ACTIVITY 4. Attendance to Scientific Conferences

The attendance at Conferences, Colloquiums or Seminars will be considered as a training activity. The professors of the program organize plenty of international scientific activities due to their UCM research groups and the I+D+i research projects they develop.

PhD students must have attended at least one of these conferences during the three years of permanence in the program, provided that they are closely related to their line of research. They will also be able to attend other similar kind of meetings, organized elsewhere in Spain or abroad.

Periodicity: depending on the calls launched

Hours: 25

Full-time students: semester S4, S5 and S6

Part-time students: from semester S5 onwards

Evaluation: organizers of the meeting or conference.

The presentation of a paper in the framework of an international conference could lead, in view of supporting documents, to a validation of the attendance to the Seminars of Doctoral Training by the Academic Committee of the program.

 

ACTIVITY 5. Mobility

The Doctoral Programme in French Studies willgive priority to Mobility of PhD students as an optional training activity. It consists of long stays in other centers, especially foreigners. It will be considered as a full training activity and must fit the research in progress of the PhD student

 

Periodicity: depending on the calls launched

Hours: 520 (the equivalent to 3 months)

Full-time students: semester S4, S5 and S6

Part-time students: from semester S5 onwards

Evaluation: Approval by its academic supervisor and document evidence from the foreign university.

This is an indispensable requirement for obtaining an International Doctorate Mention.