Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies

Fast-Track to a Doctorate

The Fast-Track in the Master Cultures of the Global South is intended to allow students with a promising academic profile to combine the Master's and doctoral phases and thus make qualification paths for an academic career more effective.

Requirements and procedures:

  • Students must submit an application to the program coordinator for admission to the Fast Track program for doctoral studies.
  • The application must be accompanied by a description of the thesis project and the Transcript of Records (ToR), which gives evidence of excellent research skills (grade average of at least 1.5, modules completed of at least 1, 2 and 3).
  • The application must be accompanied by a confirmation from a professor of the Master Cultures of the Global South that he/she agrees to supervise the Master's thesis and to be available as the first supervisor for a doctorate.

Comments on the exposé:

The exposé of around 2000 words must:

  • present the topic,
  • present the theoretical approach,
  • present the research question and corpus,
  • and show how the project can be expanded to a doctoral thesis.

 

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