PhD courses at the PhD School
PhD students at the Faculty of Theology can participate in a range of courses each year, either offered by or in collaboration with the PhD School at the Faculty of Theology, as well as courses offered by the national PhD network.
- Thematic PhD courses (courses with an academic subject)
- Generic PhD courses (for example didactics, media training, or academic writing in English)
- Mandatory introductory course (the introductory PhD course including a course on research integrity)
All courses are open for registration approximately 6 months before course start.
Read about practicalities and signing up for courses.
Thematic PhD courses
Thematic courses provide training in specific subjects, theories, methods, and analytical approaches within and across disciplinary research fields. Thematic courses are offered on an ad hoc basis by the PhD school and originates from research clusters, collective research projects and individual faculty members at the departments.
Mandatory research seminars (PhD Day)
Every semester the PhD Study Board organises a research seminar with presentations and discussions of the faculty’s ongoing PhD projects. PhD students presenting their work have twenty minutes to present their project: Either presenting a general overview of the project or focusing on a specific issue you are working on now. Afterwards there will be twenty minutes for response from a PhD colleague and questions from the audience. There is room for four presentations at each seminar.
The seminar is open to all academic staff and students from all departments at the faculty. It is our ambition to create a scholarly and social forum across departments and centres, which can provide you with an opportunity to present your work and hear about other PhD students’ projects. It will also give other members of staff the chance to hear what they are working on, and students a glimpse of the nature and form of PhD projects.
Participation is mandatory for all PhD students enrolled at the PhD school at the Faculty of Theology.
0.2 ECTS credits is given for participation
0.5 ECTS credits is given for participation as a respondent
1.5 ECTS credits is given for participation with a presentation
After the seminar there will be a dinner for all PhD students, supervisors, and members of the PhD Study Board.
A list of the current courses offered by the PhD school (includes announced recurrent courses and ad hoc courses) is available via this search at the national database for PhD courses.
Generic PhD courses
Most of the generic courses offered by the PhD school are recurring within fixed intervals.
The basics of teaching and learning in higher education for PhD students
When: Offered in Danish in the spring semester and English in the autumn semester.
ECTS: 3
The overall purpose of the course is for participants to be able to plan and facilitate university teaching and examination based on knowledge and understanding of a number of basic pedagogical theories and methods, as well as of the given framework and overall goals for university education. An additional purpose is that participants learn to see their own and others' teaching in an analytical, constructive, and reflexive manner, to evaluate appropriate strategies and ways of acting on this basis and to spar with colleagues on teaching and educational issues. During the course, participants will be working with, among other things: the characteristics, framework, and conditions of university teaching; students' learning processes, prerequisites and diversity; learning objectives, examinations and learning activities, and the alignment between them; the learning space and its importance for student learning; a wide array of student-centred learning activities and tools; criteria-based feedback; and examination.
Supervision of bachelor projects and theses
When: Offered in English in the spring semester and Danish in the autumn semester.
ECTS: 1
Participants on this course will gain knowledge and skills related to the supervision and examination of bachelor projects and theses. The course provides specific tools to support students in their writing process, e.g., framing research questions, organising the writing process, giving feedback on texts, and supporting the students’ reflection and learning process.
Fundamentals of Academic Writing in English
When: Offered in the autumn semester.
ECTS: 2.5
The course focuses on the fundamentals of academic writing, i.e., sentence length and structure (conciseness and simplicity), paragraph structure (unity and logical development), cohesion (flow), vocabulary (precision and collocations) and the most common errors (e.g., punctuation). We will also look at different ways of expressing your voice as an academic writer, for example, by choosing a certain citation pattern or inserting evaluative words and phrases to position yourself in relation to your own and other scholars’ research.
Research Writing in English
When: Offered in the autumn semester.
ECTS: 2.5
A course to assist you with dissertation and article writing – four group sessions (every second week) that offer a supportive framework with plenty of time for practice and two 45-minute individual consultations. As a writer of a dissertation (either a monograph or a collection of articles), you need to clearly express your ideas, arguments, and findings in confident and elegant academic prose. During this course you will analyse Literature Review, Introduction and Conclusion as distinctive text types with their own rhetorical strategies in order to help yourself write and rewrite similar texts. Moreover, you will practise defining key concepts and terms, making claims, conveying various degrees of certainty and commitment, engaging your readers – strategies typical of both PhD dissertations and research articles. Additionally, you will attend to your academic style by experimenting with varieties of academic phrasing, revisiting essential grammar issues, and refining the patterns of your sentences as well as paragraphs.
Prepared for conferences in English
When: Offered in the spring semester.
ECTS: 2.5
A course for PhD scholars who wish to improve their performance at inter/national conferences. The course consists of group workshops, individual consultation, and individual study. And the following subjects are included: (Re)writing Conference Abstracts and Proposals; Editing Conference Papers/Scripts and Slide Shows; Presenting; Presenting in English; Presenting Online.
Mandatory PhD course
All PhD students enrolled at the PhD Schools at the Faculty of Humanities, Law, Theology and Social Science must attend the Introductory Course for new PhD students.
There are many things to prepare for and get acquainted with when starting the PhD programme. Therefore, we conduct a two-day introductory course for new PhD students each semester. You will meet the head of the PhD school and your PhD colleagues, who start at the same time as you, and you will receive a lot of useful information as well as a course on research integrity.
The course is offered in the beginning of each semester and is rated with 1.5 ECTS.
Read about the introductory course for new PhD students.
Practicalities and signing up
- Please sign up for the courses through the link provided in the course announcement in the National Database for PhD courses.
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If you need to cancel your participation, please let us know as soon as possible, so we can pass on your seat to the next person on the waiting list.
- The PhD School at the Faculty of Theology participates in Denmark’s national network for PhD courses. Courses offered as part of this network are usually free of charge for PhD students from participating universities. Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is not part of the network and thus charges for participation in their courses.
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For international students as well as CBS students there may be a course fee.
Do you want to organise a PhD course
You can find information on organising courses on the UCPH intranet.
How to calculate ECTS
Find information on how to calculate ECTS (UCPH intranet).
Contact
PhD Administration
Tel: +45 35 32 40 04
E-mail: phd@hrsc.ku.dk