Mandatory Courses

DESCRIPTION AND GOALS
The courses, specifically designed for the PhD Programme in B&L, involve different areas of research and topics through an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach. They aim at providing the PhD students with the analytical tools and interpretative methodologies that encompass both the business and the legal domains. Consequently, the PhD students will be endowed with an in-depth understanding of current complex transformation (due to today’s social, economic, political and technological challenges)  of the context within which institutions and businesses interact for the optimal achievement of common goals of sustainability and social well-being.
The courses are split into two Parts, with lectures distributed during the first year (February-June) and the first part of the second year (September-January) of the PhD Programme.
The cross-cutting courses are complemented by seminars (mainly held by foreign professors) that focus on specific issues or methodologies aimed at further deepening the subject-matter addressed during the lessons.

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS
Attendance is mandatory for at least two-third of the courses.

FINAL ASSESSMENT
Both parts of the cross-cutting courses (Part I: February-June; Part II: September-January) will be concluded with a final assessment that implies the development of two papers (for each Part):
1) a “major paper” that entails in-depth scientific research carried out with critical and distinctive methodology;
2) a “minor paper” that entails an analytical, reconstructive and systematic approach. 
The major and minor papers must be developed in different research domains.
A further and separate assessment will be carried out for the transdisciplinary course “Introduction to Research”.
Compliance with the attendance requirements as well as a positive assessment of the above-mentioned examinations is necessary for admission to the following years of the PhD Programme (see Requirements for Admission to the following years).