Program of Studies

1. FUNDAMENTAL DISCIPLINES (60 ECTS)

Systematic Disciplines (a minimum of 30 ECTS)

Obligatory   (20 ECTS)

Hermeneutics II – 5 ECTS
Philosophy of Religion – 5 ECTS
Philosophical Anthropology  – 5 ECTS
Moral Philosophy II  – 5 ECTS

Optional   (10 ECTS)

Philosophy of God  –   5 ECTS
Metaphysics and Theology – 5 ECTS
Political Philosophy II –  5 ECTS
Ecosophy  – 5 ECTS
Philosophy of History  – 5 ECTS
Economic Theories – 5 ECTS

Historical Disciplines (20 ECTS)

Obligatory  (15 ECTS)

Historiography of Ancient/Med. Western Philosophy – 5 ECTS
Historiography of Modern/Cont. Western Philosophy – 5 ECTS
Vedanta Darsana – 5 ECTS

Optional   (5 ECTS)

Emmanuel Levinas and Relation with the ‘Other’ – 5 ECTS
Post-modernism and Post-Truth – 5 ECTS
Heidegger – 5 ECTS
Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with Modernity II – 5 ECTS
Philosophy in Maharashtra: Sant Jnaneshwar – 5 ECTS
Philosophy of Hindu Mysticism – 5 ECTS
Gandhi  – 5 ECTS
Aurobindo – 5 ECTS
Ambedkar – 5 ECTS

Seminars (10 ECTS)

Seminar on Philosophy of Religion – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Philosophy of the Human Person – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Moral Philosophy – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Interpretation of a Philosophical Text – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Classical Indian Philosophy  – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Contemporary Indian Philosophy – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Medieval Western Philosophy – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Being and Person – 5 ECTS

2. SPECIALIZATIONS   (30 ECTS)

Education (5-20 ECTS from the following)

Philosophy of Education – 5 ECTS
History of Western Education – 5 ECTS
History of Education in India – 5 ECTS
Phil. Foundations of the Salesian System of Education – 5 ECTS
Educational Psychology II – 5 ECTS

Communication (5-20 ECTS from the following)

Semiotics – 5 ECTS
Philosophy of Communication – 5 ECTS
Rhetoric – 5 ECTS
Media and Religion: Mutual Influences – 5 ECTS
Ethics of Social Communication – 5 ECTS 

Seminars (5 ECTS)

Seminar on Philosophy of Education – 5 ECTS
Seminar on Philosophy of Communication  – 5 ECTS

3. Methodology of Research and Scientific Work  – 5 ECTS

4. Modern European Language – 5 ECTS

5.  DISSERTATION AND DEFENCE  – 20 ECTS

6. COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION – 10 ECTS