Methodological seminar

SIS LDOC37

Doctoral students are required to complete the seminar in the first year of study. The seminar builds on the knowledge that doctoral students have acquired in the master's degree program and further deepens this knowledge. The content of the seminar consists of the following areas: theory and methodology of social sciences and issues of literary and formal processing of texts. The aim is to shed light on the relationship between scientific theory and research methods on practical examples from texts, to clarify relevant research methods (taking into account the topics of individual seminar participants) and formal and content problems of writing professional texts). Topic range: - theory, category, terminology, typology, methodology - methods (eg historical-philological work, comparison, discursive analysis) - sources of research - composition of professional monograph, composition of professional study - citation standards, work with electronic sources.

Required courses for the four thematic units of early Christianity

• Orthodoxy and heresy in early Christianity SIS LDOC33

• Early Christian literature SIS LDOC34

• Early Christian practice and institutions SIS LDOC35

• Contexts of early Christianity SIS LDOC36

Seminars are held in blocks (18 teaching hours in total). The choice of the seminar is recorded by the student in the ISP. Seminars are organized by active participation of PhD students. Doctoral students take responsibility for the subtopic, lead and correct the reading of the assigned work, its translation and interpretation, and moderate the discussion. In addition to their research objectives, the seminars also serve a didactic function, as doctoral students learn to conduct professional seminars.

In the case of pandemic-related restrictions on distance learning, the course is taught by distance learning using Moodle and MS Teams.

It includes two basic orientation frameworks, between which the PhD student chooses in consultation with the supervisor and records the chosen orientation in the ISP.

Within the framework of the chosen orientation, the specific subtopic of the seminar is then specified taking into account the student's ISP, or the topic of his/her dissertation, and the current state of research on the issue (new monograph, monothematic issue of a relevant periodical, etc.). Therefore, the annotations of the individual courses given in the accreditation proposal characterize only the basic course outline.

Early Christianity – examination

SIS LDOC32

The exam is composed of two rounds of questions:

1. Figures of early Christianity

2. Problems of Early Christianity

The material is based on a study of the assigned literature. While the individual seminars on the four thematic units of early Christianity focus on sub-issues, the course "Early Christianity" thematizes the figures and problems of early Christianity in a broader context. The student is required to submit a list of scholarly and source literature. The examination is oral.

International research experience

SIS LDOC38

The doctoral student gains international research / academic experience in one of the following activities:

a) a traineeship abroad of at least one month;

b) participation in an international scientific project with results published or presented abroad;

c) participation in an international conference

The doctoral student consults with the supervisor on the method of fulfilling this obligation, who records its fulfillment.

The student actively cooperates on the administrative assurance of the fulfillment of the obligation of the individual study plan - internship abroad with the dept. sciences HTF.