a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne at University of Cologne

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The a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne is the graduate school of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne, which has been funded by the German Excellence Initiative. A special emphasis lies on hermeneutical and historico-contextual models. Research topics comprise the genesis and invention of knowledge as well as processes of reception and transculturation and their anthropological and ethical conditions. Since October 2012, the a.r.t.e.s Graduate School is responsible for every doctoral project at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities with regard to recent doctoral regulations. Doctoral students can choose between a regular track and an integrated track. The regular track is the standard model of the individual doctorate, whereas the integrated track is the structured doctoral model that, with regard to the interdisciplinary scope, is designed to allow completion of the doctoral project within a time frame of three years. The integrated track also includes a variety of funding programmes and measures. The a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School creates ideal conditions for a doctoral programme in accordance with highest international standards. The a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School serves as a platform for the internationalisation of graduate programmes that can build on a formidable existing network of cooperation agreements in the faculty and draw from the experience of a great number of teaching and research centres. The concept of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School is completed by a special focus on equality standards. Support The a.r.t.e.s. integrated track addresses graduates who have completed their studies with outstanding academic results at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and who are interested in beginning their doctoral studies shortly after their final examination. The participants are supervised by two graduate class mentors and three academic advisers, one of whom is from another discipline. In the graduate class colloquia during the semester period, the doctoral candidates periodically discuss the progress of their research with their classmates and the class mentors. The yearly and comprehensive colloquia of the entire graduate school offer the opportunity to discuss topics and advances in research.