Courses and seminars at the Faculty of Humanities
The courses and seminars are intended to cover the 30-credit educational component of the PhD programme.The Faculty of Humanities and its departments collaborate to offer courses and seminars.
See all PhD courses and seminars
Candidates may take courses and participate in seminars offered by the faculty and its seven departments, and may also make use of external courses. Please note that the academic offerings may vary from semester to semester.
Many courses are taught during the PhD Week, which normally takes place at the end of each semester. There are also courses outside the PhD Week, in particular larger and more extensive courses.
PhD Week
A learning festival for early-career researchers!
The programme includes the faculty’s compulsory introductory course in philosophy of science, research ethics and dissemination. The departments jointly offer advanced courses in philosophy of knowledge, research ethics and research methods. We also offer research skills courses and some social events.
Text development seminars
All PhD candidates are assigned to a regular text development seminar.
Courses and seminars sorted by department
- Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
- Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
- Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS)
- Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS)
- Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
- Department of Media and Communication (IMK)
- Department of Musicology (IMV)
Research schools
Research schools offer courses and networks for PhD candidates and researchers with overlapping areas of interest.
PhD candidates may affiliate with and participate in courses and seminars organised by the research schools. The Faculty of Humanities is involved in the following research schools:
- Text, Image, Sound, Space (TBLR, NTNU)
- The Research School on Peace and Conflict
- The Norwegian Research School in History
- The Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society (DIGIT)
- The Nordic Research School for Museums and Heritage
- Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology: Dialogues with the Past (DIALPAST)
Other courses
There is no national portal for PhD courses, but relevant courses are offered at many universities and university colleges, as well as by other units at UiO. Below are some of the opportunities frequently used by our PhD candidates.
Reference management tools (University of Oslo Library)
Data tools
- Course overview – IT Department
- Course overview – University of Oslo Library
- Digital Scholarship Days
- Humit