Structured PhD (Film Studies)

Course Overview

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured Ph.D. program, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

• are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area
• are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to the completion of the research project, e.g., additional language skills
• acknowledge a student’s professional development, e.g., presentation of a paper at an international conference
• enhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g., careers workshops, computer literacy.

Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their program of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

The Huston School encourages Ph.D. degree applications.

The aim of this four-year, full-time research program is the generation of a contribution to knowledge and understanding in Film, Television and Digital Media by means of academic research. During the program, students receive training in research methods and complete a thesis based on a key research question. The length of the thesis is normally 60,000 to 80,000 words. The duration of research is usually four years.