For Postgraduate Students

Syllabi

The1st academic year

During the first academic year the student will meet the doctoral commission 3 times per year, the first for the approval of the research’s topic (November), the second is a meeting of the Spring Assessment, where the candidate will show the progress made till that period (May) and the last is for the approval of having passed the year and in that meeting the student will bring the chapter/s done and reviewed with the Supervisor.

In the first year of the Doctoral programme, each candidate have to pass courses conducted during the year.

Mandatory courses:

1. For international students we recommend to attend the Russian language course: https://www.hse.ru/en/rfl/. Before the State exam each student translates scientific articles, makes a presentation and prepares a report on dissertation issue.

2. Postgraduate seminar

3. Theory and methods of contemporary historical knowledge

Optional courses (3 out of 5)

1. Contemporary historiography

2. Theory and practice of historical reconstructing

3. Theory and practice of analysis of historical sources

4. Academic writing

5. Course of another Doctoral Programme

The 2nd academic year

In the second year the State exam that has to be passed is the exam of Special Discipline (Qualification), and, as for the first year, the courses conducted will be evaluated.

The 3rd academic year

The third year is basically dedicated to the research, writing, and editing of the Doctoral thesis, which will be defended at the end of October.

During training students attend the Research seminar and have the teaching field experience and the research field experience.

At the end of the third year of study, the final state certification is conducted (see Programme of Final state certification (DOCX, 60 Кб)).