Training project - History of Art, Film, Audiovisual Media, Music, Cycle XLI

The Board of teachers approves the training project for each doctoral student.
The doctoral student's training project consists of
a) in the development, under the guidance of the Supervisor, of an individual research programme referring to a specific disciplinary field among those on which the Course is focused;
b) the attendance (with passing of a final examination) of doctoral-level teaching activities complementary to research of no less than 18 CFU during the three-year period. The recognition of CFUs, which may be acquired by attending lectures and other training activities, is carried out by the Board of teachers, which authorises attendance and assesses the results. Each doctoral student is required to attend the intercurricular seminar and the seminar of his/her curriculum each year. Each training activity is calculated at 0.125CFU/hour.
The PhD course in History of Art, Cinema, Audiovisual Media, Music provides for the acquisition of at least 18 CFU over the three-year period, broken down as follows.

Intercurricular Seminar 2025-26
Teaching period: November-December, January-February, May-June 2025/26, teaching:
- Lecture and seminar series by external lecturers on DIUM and AMCE funds, ARTE-01/A, B, C and D CEAR-11/A; PEMM-01/B and C, 22 hours, 2.75CFU
- Multitypological Archives (Brunetti), HIST-04/C, 2 hours, 0.25 CFU

Curricular seminar Art History 2025-26
Teaching period: January-February and May-June 2025/26, subjects
- History of Medieval Art (Bolgia), ARTE-01/A, 4 hours, 0.5 CFU
- History of Modern Art (Borean, De Feo, Fumagalli), ARTE-01/B, 6 hours, 0.75 CFU
- History of Contemporary Art (Del Puppo, Nicoletti), ARTE-01/C, 6 hours, 0.75 CFU
- (Foramitti, Iannello, Lanzarini, Sambin De' Norcen), CEAR-11/A, 8 hours, 1 CFU
- Museology and Art and Restoration Criticism (Levi, Visentin), ARTE-01/C, 4 hours, 0.5 CFU

Teaching period: January-February and May-June 2025, subjects
- Film history, philology, restoration (Mariani, Pitassio, Venturini), PEMM-01/B, 8 hours, 1 CFU
- Cinema, production studies, social dynamics (Dagnino, Re, Vergari), PEMM-01/B, 6 hours, 0.75 CFU
- Audiovisual Media and Digital Environments (Mariani, Saba), PEMM-01/B, 6 hours, 0.75 CFU
- History of Music and Musicology (Calabretto, Cossettini), PEMM-01/C, 8 hrs, 1 CFU

Aims and focus of curricular and intercurricular training are:
- Knowledge and understanding: in each of the disciplinary segments within which the research project is conducted, the aim is the knowledge and comparison with the state of the art of national and international research and the consequent ability to master the international scientific literature.
- Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: methodologies and research tools must be applied to the individual studies with full effectiveness. In particular, exposure to advanced and interdisciplinary research has the function of stimulating verification and updating of research methods to individual fields of application.
- Autonomy of judgement: it is essential that individual doctoral students possess a spirit of autonomous evaluation, critical judgement, self-evaluation and revision skills.
- Communication skills: proven ability to present research outputs in recognised formats (academic writing, seminars, lectures, public discussions). In particular, doctoral students are encouraged to actively engage with national and international scholars and their own research community.
- Learning ability: the mastery of tools and methodologies must be aimed at constant and continuous updating in the contents of one's own discipline.

For intercurricular and curricular seminars, the mode of verification of learning consists of the return in the form of an assigned written test on a subject from the annual disciplinary and interdisciplinary seminars, as per the programme established by the College by 30 September each year.

It is desirable for most of the transversal activities to be carried out within 18 months of the start of the doctoral programme in order to ensure adequate time for research activities and thesis writing.
The doctoral programme also organises a series of conference and seminar activities each year that feed into the overall training programme:
- FilmForum and MAGIS - International Film Studies Spring School (2025).
- Conferences promoted by the Ado Furlan Foundation.
- Joint seminar with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle as part of the implementation protocol (May and October 2026).

Each PhD student also has the opportunity to take one or more courses from among those offered in the Master's Degree Courses in Art History (LM89) and Visual Heritage and Media Education (LM 65), as well as lectures in the School of Specialisation in Art History.

These are the activities foreseen in the training project:

At least 18 + 18 CFUs
At least 18 CFU (to which a maximum of 18 CFU of free activities can be added outside the course offer)
- higher education activities, including seminar-type activities planned by the course itself or organised by other universities/research institutes/companies in the relevant area, curricula and disciplines
- participation as speaker or auditor at national or international conferences, workshops, schools (etc.) in the reference discipline.
The activities scheduled for the course will be made available on the course website, indicating the methods for acquiring CFUs (attendance, final examination, etc.).

At least 7 CFU
- Transversal training activities in the areas of Mobility, Research, Career development, Enterprise, Communication, Digital, Cognitive and interpersonal, planned by the university or organised by other universities/research institutes/companies.
Given the importance of language training, all doctoral students must attend the EAP course ‘English for Academic Purposes’ (or an equivalent course) during their doctoral studies, with the exception of students with a certified C1 level and students exempted from attending the course by the Board of Teachers concerned for one of the following reasons: Master's degree in languages (with English as the first language) and/or course of study abroad entirely in English.
The CFUs of the EAP course do not count towards the minimum credits to be acquired.

3 CFU (optional)
- tutoring activities, including paid tutoring, of students on degree and master's degree courses within the limits of coherence and compatibility with the research activities carried out
- supplementary teaching activities, 20 hours (within the limit of 40 hours per academic year);
- third mission/social impact activities.

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