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 all your DE programme credits with online courses completely.
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.
Course suggestions
At Graduate School A+BE
Spring 2023:
- Advanced Architectural Theory Research Seminars | ABE008
- Research Proposal for Architecture & the Built Environment | ABE009 | MANDATORY
- Qualitative Research Methods for Architecture and the Built Environment | ABE013
- Poet, Mortician or Map-maker: Modes of Writing in Architectural Research | ABE021
- Academic Writing Retreat | ABE022
- Research Data Management | ABE023
Fall 2023:
- Research Proposal for Architecture & the Built Environment | ABE009 | MANDATORY TBA
- GIS & Cartography | GEO1002 (replacement of ABE017) TBA
- Topics in global flows and dynamic landscapes: Port Cities between global networks and local transformations | ABE016
- GIS applied in various domains | ABE018 TBA
- Research and Thesis Design | ABE020 TBA
- Academic Writing Retreat | ABE022 TBA
- Research Data Management | ABE023 TBA
A selection of Faculty MSc courses
- Lecture Series Research Methods | A | AR3A160
- New Urban Questions and Minor Infractions | A | AR3AT060
- 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