| Activity | Duration | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to research | 4 hours | Mandatory | Students will receive the necessary initial information on the PhD Programme and on the PhD thesis objectives and formulation. |
| Course: Databases and scientific information research, selection and management | 20 hours | Mandatory | The aim of this course is for students to acquire the skills necessary for the proper management of bibliographic resources: academic and scientific information research processes, organization, evaluation and use. |
| Course: Tools and keys for communication and research works dissemination | 25 hours | Mandatory | The aim of this course is for students to be able to conveniently structure a written research paper and to communicate and disseminate appropriately the their research results in the usual scientific journal format with peer reviewers. |
| Research Plan Defence | 2 hours | Mandatory | At the end of each academic year, the student will defend the activities carried out in the course and present the planning for the following year. The defence will be carried out in the time and shape established through an specific regulation passed by the PPAC. |
| Communications presentations in international scientific congresses | 24 hours | Mandatory | Students will plan these action following their director and tutor advice, following their activities plan, and following the PPAC regulation on this. |
| Stays abroad | 480 hours | Optional | Each student will be encouraged to complete at least a three-month stay in a research center during the PhD Programme period. Students will plan these action following their director and tutor advice, following their activities plan, and following the PPAC regulation on this. |
| Basic analytic procedures in Heritage | 4 hours | Optional | Aimed at students who come from branches of humanistic knowledge, who develop a research thesis applied to any cultural asset that is likely to provide data of historical and/or heritage interest with instrumental tools support. |
| Rocky materials used in cultural heritage. Mineralogy and texture influence on the susceptibility to deterioration and treatment effectiveness | 10 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to know, first of all, the different types of rocks most used in the construction of architectural and archaeological heritage. |
| Urban and environmental law in the management of cultural heritage | 20 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire the skills necessary for understanding construction and environment law in the management of cultural heritage (projects, programmes, surveys, interventions, etc.). |
| Underwater Cultural Heritage protection | 20 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire the skills necessary for understanding the cultural heritage protection in an environment as specific as underwater (projects, programmes, prospecting, interventions, conservation, restoration, etc.). |
| Cartographic Products and New Technologies | 10 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire the necessary skills for the use of cartographic resources: official cartographic production entities, official cartography download portals, cartography viewers, editable formats, institutional soil observation programmes. |
| Ibero-American Cultural Heritage | 20 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire knowledge about the cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of the Ibero-American world. Special emphasis will be placed both on the work on (culture, heritage) concepts and on the various manifestations of this (artistic, musical, gastronomic, landscape, urban, folk, etc.) heritage. |
| Cleaning methods applied in rock built heritage: chemical, mechanical and laser. Effectiveness | 10 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to know, first of all, the different types of cleaning methods applied on cultural heritage built in rock. |
| Colorimetry course applied to cultural heritage | 15 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of colour measurement, recording and data processing in the CIELAB colour system. Published case studies of colour analysis in cultural assets and heritage will also be presented. |
| Urban geological environment knowledge | 20 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to know the materials, structures and other geological aspects of the buildings and/or urban structures that surround them. |
| Granite monuments colonizers | 10 hours | Optional | The aim of this course is for students to acquire the knowledge that will allow them to differentiate the large groups of colonizers (lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants) in the monuments that make up the bulk of the Galician cultural heritage. |
| Course: Value and meaning of Cultural Heritage | 4 hours | Optional | Aimed at students who come from branches of scientific and technological knowledge, who develop a research thesis applied to a cultural asset and who, although with a strong scientific character, require for its development or interpretation the asset historical valuation and the property legislation management. |
| Course: Technologies and ways of altering the cultural asset | 4 hours | Optional | Aimed at students who come from branches of humanistic knowledge, who develop a research thesis applied to a cultural asset and who, although with a strong scientific character, require for its development or interpretation the asset historical valuation and the property legislation management. |
| Course: Works of art conservation and restoration | 4 hours | Optional | Aimed at students who come from branches of humanistic knowledge, who develop a research thesis applied to a cultural asset and who, although with a strong scientific character, require for its development or interpretation knowledge on the cultural assets restoration and conservation methodologies. |
The educational activities recommended temporary development for the students enrolled full time (three years) is the following:
1st enrolment year
- October: Activity 1. Introduction to research. Taught in the on-line teaching virtual room. A computer with camera and microphone is required.
- October-December: Activity 2. Databases and scientific information research, selection and management. It will be carried out through the on-line teaching platform using didactic material, recommended activities and on-line assessments.
- February-May: Activity 3. Tools and keys for communication and research works dissemination. It will be carried out through the on-line teaching platform using didactic material, recommended activities and on-line assessments.
- June-July: Activity 4. Research Plan Defence. Remote connection tools are allowed.
2nd year and following
- June-July: Each year students have to carry out activity 4. Research Plan Defence.
- At any time: at least once during all the PhD Programme the student must take part as a co-author in an oral report presented in an international congress with an international scientific committee.
- The activities 2 and 3 can be carried out in a different year of first enrolment year.
- To carry out the optional courses students must enrol.
- Part time students will carry out the activities following their five year long calendar.