Course

(b) Students are required to undertake 6 Advanced Study ECTS from the curricular units indicated in the following table or from the same subject areas as approved by the Scientific Council.

(c) Free Elective which includes the Advanced Study Units.

The UC Scientific and Technical Communication benefits from the wide offer of curricular units of the NOVA Doctoral School. These UCs are attended by students of doctoral programs from various areas. The Research Topics and Methods UC allows students to start early and systematically their studies in essential and complementary areas of research work that they undertake in the course of the doctoral program, giving them a broad perspective of the areas and methods of research in Computer Science. Studies are carried out accompanied by a tutor/advisor on research challenges in relevant areas, methods, previous approaches and forms of scientific impact assessment. The student will be supervised by a DI professor (tutor or advisor) who, in individual work sessions, will help in defining the topics to be addressed. The concrete work proposal must be submitted by the tutor or the student, with the tutor's agreement, to the UC coordinator - currently the PhD program coordinator. The student will be evaluated by the report/presentation to be submitted with a description and critical evaluation of the work carried out and the topics studied.

Advanced Studies reflect the integration between scientific research and curriculum, with an integrated offering of UCs corresponding to the dominant areas of the NOVA LINCS research unit, associated with the Department of Informatics. The optional units of Advanced Studies are Artificial Intelligence, Engineering and Software Systems, Interaction and Multimedia Systems and Computer Systems and Networks and correspond to key areas of Computer Science and are tailored to the number of students in the program.