Discipline-related courses

The content of the Doctoral Education programme is something you will discuss with your supervisory team, who will be responsible for both the content and the quality of the programme. Once a year, the School looks at your Doctoral Education progress in DMA to check that all the courses you have followed are in conformance with the regulations, are in the right category, have a certificate up-loaded in DMA, etc. You will receive an email if we have any remarks or questions.

As a reminder

- When following MSc courses: 1 ECTS = 1 GS credit (exam must be passed)
- Courses offered by research schools or other courses at the PhD level: 1 day (8–12 hrs) = 1 GS credit.
- There is a limit of 5 GS credits for each course (this applies to all courses, even summer schools).
- You can obtain a maximum of 10 GS credits via online learning.

Workshops/seminars

We are aware that it takes effort to compose a solid curriculum, particularly in the ‘discipline-related skills’ category. Workshops and seminars may therefore be registered in this category. Keep in mind the following binding criteria:

- Such a workshop/ seminar isn’t analogous to following a lecture. Your course attendance form should indicate in which way you contributed to the session. Did you give a presentation? Prepared a part? In short: in which ways were you actively involved?
- A maximum of 4 GS credits can be earned by attending workshops and seminars. 

At Graduate School A+BE

Fall 2020: 

• Design and Planning Analytical Tools | ABE 003 
• Theories of Regionalization, Territories and Networks, and their Application in Urban Design | ABE 004
• Regional Strategies & Territorial Governance | ABE 005 
• Research Proposal for Architecture & the Built Environment | ABE 009 | MANDATORY
• Qualitative Research Methods for Architecture and the Built Environment | ABE 013
• GIS applied in various domains | ABE018 
• Research and Thesis Design | ABE020
• Academic Writing Retreat | ABE022

Spring 2021:

• Advanced Architectural Theory Research Seminars  | ABE 008 
• Research Proposal for Architecture & the Built Environment | ABE 009 | MANDATORY 
• Qualitative Research Methods for Architecture and the Built Environment | ABE 013 TBA
• Topics in global flows and dynamic landscapes: Port Cities between global networks and local transformations | ABE016 TBA
• The Sustainable City: Theories on Urban Design | ABE019 TBA 
• Academic Writing Retreat | ABE022 

A selection of Faculty MSc courses

• Lecture Series Research Methods | A | AR3A160
• New Urban Questions and Minor Infractions | A | AR3AT060
• Building Technology Research Methodology | AE+T | AR1B025-D3
• Management & Finance 2 | MBE | AR2R016
• Quantitative Research Methods in Design and Engineering | MBE | AR3R061
• Qualitative Research Methods in Design and Engineering | MBE | AR1R055
• Theory of Urbanism | U | AR3U022
• Research Methodology in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design | LA | AR3LA020 / AR9230

At Research Schools

• Urban and Regional Research | CC1| NETHUR
• Research Design | CC2 |NETHUR
• Qualitative Research Methods | CC6 | NETHUR
• Paradigms in Art & Architectural History | OSK
• Structuring Art History: The architecture of the PhD thesis | OSK

Online courses

Coursera and other MOOC providers (e.g. edX, MIT OpenCourseWare, Stanford online) offer a variety of courses that could be valuable to PhD researchers. Individual universities and graduate schools are beginning to do so as well. Search the web!

NEW: Urban Design for the Public Good: Dutch Urbanism / edX / offered by Urbanism Department, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft

Followed by A+BE PhD candidates:

• An Introduction to Operations Management | Coursera | offered by the University of Pennsylvania
• Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis | Coursera | offered by Stanford University

Developed by A+BE PhD candidates:

• Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges | edX | offered by TU Delft (Starts on 28 March, 2017)

Other providers

• Lorentz Center - International Center for Workshops in the Sciences (based in Leiden) offers a variety of workshops

Followed by A+BE PhD candidates:

• Geometric Algorithms | Utrecht University