Level:  doctoral academic studies

Upon end of the studies student will receive a title: Ethnology and anthropology – doctoral degree (ph.d.)

The Doctoral degree study program in Ethnology and Anthropology is designed in order to qualify experts for individual, team, institutional, consulting and project work within the wide spectrum of the discipline, starting from academic to applied researches. Having in mind the size ad the character of the academic community of ethnologists and anthropologist, their existing business niches and terms of professional arrangements, the Doctoral study program is designed around the idea of preserving scientific resources with gradual distribution of competencies and socially recognizable discipline. Besides this, the program also rests on the idea that newly qualified scientists choose the character of their own vocation on their won – whether it concerns academics, scientific research, applied knowledge or consulting, or active or culturally critical engagements, and this is exactly why the Doctoral study program in Ethnology and Anthropology includes all of the above mentioned, standard elements of a profession of an ethnologist and anthropologist. Concerning that the idea for individual and personal research work that is outside of the team or institutions is long time surpassed even in Serbia, the purpose of this program is to qualify future scientists and researchers to fit within contemporary trends of discipline development on global level, and to conduct research work, teach at the institutions of higher education and actively partake in social transformations, not as lonely individuals but as citizens that nourish public virtues.

Creative thinking, ability to question obvious and evident, capability to triangulate methods, researching techniques, theoretical approaches and observations, and ideological concepts of the discipline, are some of the main characteristics of a superior anthropologist on a global level. With this in mind, the Doctoral degree study program in Ethnology and Anthropology is designed as a way of parallel acquirement of contemporary theoretical and methodological knowledge within the discipline itself and related social and humanistic disciplines, while continuously training candidates for conducting individual and team research projects. The objective of the program is to enable candidates, despite the constant questioning of disciplines’ own purpose and social role, to actively apply acquired academic knowledge onto socio-cultural phenomena that include, but not limit the following activities such as: designing research works, conducting research, describe and interpret the research results, disseminating research results, actively pursuing trends in the discipline itself and related disciplines, and translating disciplinary specific knowledge into language understandable to administration, population and related disciplines.

A graduate student with a Doctoral degree in Ethnology and Anthropology will be competent for performing the following activities: • Independently or with a team create scientific research projects • Independently or with a team accomplish scientific research projects • Independently describe, analyze, publish and promote research results • Independently or with a team actively apply acquired knowledge • Independently or with a team amend the research results and the dissemination language of the results to different sub-disciplines and general population • Independently perform controlling or recurring research work concerning relevant research phenomena • Participate in interdisciplinary projects • Evaluate scientific research results of different authors and project instigators • Evaluate scientific, artistic, administrative and other research projects that are maneuvered by socio-cultural analysis • Consult clients and research associates within the wide spectrum of activities. Ranging from administrative to commercial • Conduct lectures and instructions within the academic or professional context of the specialized discipline or sub-discipline in Ethnology and Anthropology

An entrance conditions for enrollment in a follow-up Doctoral study program are the completion of study in a Master’s study program (300 ECTS credits), the average grade of 8.00 during Bachelor and Master’s study programs, or at least five published research studies in magazines of national and international recognition. The knowledge of at least one foreign language is mandatory as well. Rules for entrance examinations and admission are set in connection with the Faculty of Philosophy Statute. A student applying for a Doctoral study program with a Master’s degree from a different study group will have to take the differential exam if necessary.

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