Shedule of courses – summer semester 2025/2026

Doctoral seminar and tutoring

Individual classes (seminar, tutoring) are implemented as required. The tutor and the doctoral student decide on the form of classes and the criteria for passing them.

If something needs to be corrected in USOS – report it to the DS office.

If you start cooperation with a tutor from outside the University of Silesia – inform the office about the working dates and ask about signing the contract.

Contact in both cases: Agnieszka Szewczyk

More about tutoring: expert tutoring at the Doctoral School

Doctoral workshops 1 - preparation of the reseacher plan

3 godziny, 1 ECTS

Mandatory course for doctoral students of the first year, who are preparing an Individual Research Plan. The course is actually one online meeting with a filed coordinator.

Schedule: Doctoral workshops 1 2025-2026L.xlsx

You don’t have to register for this course – doctoral students will be added to the groups and a link to the meeting will be sent.

If any doctoral student of an earlier year want to participate in the meeting, he or she should contact with the Doctoral School’s office by March 1.

Ethics in Research / Ethics in Art

10 hours, 2 ECTS

Doctoral students of all scientific disciplines

Groups in Polish and in English.

The course suggested for doctoral students of the first year, especially if they are going to apply for grants.

coordinator: dr hab. Monika Jagielska, prof. UŚ

teachers: dr hab. Monika Jagielska, prof. UŚ, dr hab. Mariusz Jagielski, prof. UŚ

schedule: Research ethics 2025-2026L.xlsx

Registration for classes 12.02, 18:00 – 17.02, 23:59 in USOSweb

Doctoral students of artistic disciplines

In Polish only.

Schedule: Ethics in art 2025-2026L.xlsx

Preparation and implementation of a research / art project

30 hours, 5 ECTS (including grant application)

Doctoral students of all scientific disciplines

The course for doctoral students preparing grant applications, in particular NCN Preludium. The condition for enrolling in the course is a plan to submit a grant application in this academic year*.

The basis for passing the classes is the preparation of a grant application. The decision on whether the application will be submitted is made by the teachers in consultation with the doctoral student and the PhD supervisor.

Classes consisting of four elements:

Introduction – model and strategies for preparing a project.
Substantive work on the application.
Formal side of the application – faculty’s project offices.
Data management plan.

Schedule: Project preparation 2025-2026L.xlsx

When registering, the doctoral student selects the group corresponding to his or her discipline.

Registration for classes 12.02, 18:00 – 17.02, 23:59 in USOSweb.

*PhD students who are exempt from the obligation to submit a grant application, but not exempt from the obligation to pass this module prepare a grant application during the course but do not send it to the financing institution.

Doctoral students of artistic disciplines

Classes supporting PhD students in finding sources of financing for artistic activity, obtaining internships and artistic residencies, etc.

Remote classes, divided into disciplines. In Polish only.

Schedule: Art project preparation 2025-2026L.xlsx

Doctoral workshops - presentation of the research plan

10 hours, 2 ECTS

Compulsory course for second-year PhD students who are taking the mid-term evaluation.

The goal of thee course is to improve the skills of presenting one’s research to a scientific audience, particularly during the mid-term evaluation.

Schedule: Doctoral workshops 2 2025-2026L.xlsx

You don’t have to register. Doctoral students will be put in the groups of their disciplines. Passing this course during the second year is mandatory.

Academic English II

40 hours (20 hours in winter and 20 hours in summer), 4 ECTS

Continuation of classes from the winter semester. Classes conducted remotely (except for chemical sciences). Classes for all doctoral students, including implementation and non-Polish-speaking ones.

Schedule: Academic English 2025-2026L.xlsx

You don’t have to register. Doctoral students will be transferred from the last semester.

Developing scientific papers and critical text analysis

20 hours, 4 ECTS (30 hours for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 year)

For scientific disciplines classes are divided for two parts:

Classes with researchers experienced in preparing scientific publications and working with scientific texts
Meetings with journal editors

The first part of the classes – 15 hours in disciplines’ groups

Schedule: Developing scientific papers 2025-2026L.xlsx

Registration for classes 12.02, 18:00 – 17.02, 23:59 in USOSweb

Meetings with editors

Each doctoral student is required to participate in at least three such meetings (years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023) or at least one such meeting (years 2023/2024 and 2024/2025) until the end of their education. The schedule of meetings will be published on an ongoing basis on a separate website.

Meetings will be organized throughout the semester, usually on Tuesday 15:30-17:45 online (details coming soon).

For doctoral students from artistic disciplines, the course is organized as one longer classes (without workshops with editors):

Przygotowanie tekstów okołoartystycznych 2025-2026L.xlsx

Intellectual property law for art

15 hours, 2 ECTS

Schedule: Intellectual property law – art.xlsx

Registration for classes 12.02, 18:00 – 17.02, 23:59 in USOSweb.

Only classes for art disciplines, in Polish. For research disciplines, the course is organized in the winter semester.

English language course

additional (not mandatory) course, 2 ECTS

Continuation of the course for the first semester, with the same schedule. Doctoral students are put in the USOS without registration. If anything should be changed, please get in touch with the Doctoral School’s office.

Optional courses

More information soon.

Registration for classes 19.02, 18:00 – 23.02, 23:59 in USOSweb.