Study Plan

Degree	Campus or Office	Beginning year
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies in Thought, Culture, and Society from the University of  Valparaíso	Performance-Based Agreement for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CDHACS-Convenio de Desempeño para las Humanidades, Artes y Ciencias Sociales, Blanco 1215 Off. 101, Valparaíso)	2015
Duration	Class Hours	Slots
Eight academic semesters	Daytime	05 – 10

 

Among existing interdisciplinary programs committed to preparing researchers in Chile and Latin America, the DEI-UV offers an original Study Plan. From a broad perspective, we understand interdisciplinarity as an approach that combines and integrates different fields of knowledge in which various methodological perspectives are applied to objects of research. Furthermore, we realize that products of interdisciplinary research must be clear and precise, but nevertheless convey a general and explicative character.

These aspects define the DEI-UV pedagogical approach as unconventional: With a flexible structure that favors collective and practical learning over traditional lecture systems, the program focuses on collaborative, reflexive, critical, communicable, methodical, systematic, and open knowledge production.

Prior to writing the dissertation, the fundamental activity in the program’s First Cycle is an “Interdisciplinary Workshop,” where students and professors meet to read, discuss, and exchange research experiences, enriching the analysis of common research problems. Parallel to this activity, students take “Introduction to Research Seminars,” which integrate them into affiliated study teams already conducting projects so as to gain concrete research experience.

Interdisciplinarity is verified in at least the following three ways: a) sources of reference; b) collective preparation process; and c) results or products applicable to various fields and disciplines.