Curriculum and offered courses
Within the graduate school, doctoral students are required to gain 12 credit points according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Of these 12 credit points, 6 must be gained from a core set of mandatory courses which all doctoral students must attend. The remaining 6 credit points can be gathered from a number of recommended courses and optional courses offered within the framework of the graduate school or the wider university.
Mandatory Core Courses
Course | ECTS | Short Description |
1 | Introductionary seminar | |
1 | Identifying and improving personal weaknesses | |
1 | Introduction to cross-disciplinary literature | |
1 | Course with focus on scientific writing skills for publications and dissertation | |
1 | Grant writing, CV development, presentation skills, and more | |
1+1 | Networking |
Recommended Courses
Course | ECTS | Short Description |
1 | Language skills are key in scientific communication and integration in a multi-national workplace | |
1 | Project management skills tailored to doctoral students needs | |
1 | Important skill both for research, teaching and in the workplace | |
1 | Ethics of scientific work and interaction with the public | |
1 | Lectures by leading scholars in Geography |
Further Optional Courses
Course | ECTS | Short Description |
Methodological courses offered by the various UZH competence centres | ||
1-2 | Courses offered by the UZH teaching and learning centre |