A degree programme in History gives a broad general diachronic background ranging from the ancient, to the medieval, modern and contemporary world.

It proposes an extensive learning curriculum covering broad-ranging topics seen from multiple angles, and presented in a rigorous,up-to-date methodological approach.

It sets out to give students a full understanding of historical events and phenomena seen in a transversal perspective based onskills from closely-related fields, enabling the learner to compare different traditions, methods and approaches.

The degree programme is structured so as to develop professional/occupational skills of a historiographical order, suitable for teaching the subject, bringing it to a broader public, or using a degree-level knowledge of it in editorial work and various public administration careers.

The three-year degree is suitable and designed for extension into a second-cycle Masters degree programme. In their own right,however, the knowledge and skills gained during the basic degree programme in History will serve as an introduction to professions calling for a solid arts education, since this is needed for a grasp of services and products involving culture and history. The knowledge and methods of study gained in the degree programme enable the graduate to go on to post-graduate professional training programmes.

To be accepted on this degree programme one needs to have a 5-year high school leaver's certificate orforeign qualification recognised as compatible, or a 4-year high school leaver's diploma plus catch-up year or, where that is no longer being run, proof of having made up an additional learning requirement.

The kind of background and skills needed for embarking on a history degree are:

- good general knowledge;

- logical and reasoning skills;

- ability to read, construe and interpret texts anddocuments (in Italian);

- an ability to express oneself well in Italian.

This background ability will be tested as follows:

the student will have to sit an admission test as described in the Call for applications to the degree programme in History. Any enrolling student whose test score is below the minimum stipulated in the Callwill be set an Additional Learning Requirement (OFA) to be completed by the deadline in the following terms.

Additional Learning Requirements (OFA) and assessment

If the knowledge test proves unsatisfactory, the enrolling student will be set specific additional learning requirements (OFAs)to be completed within the first year of the programme. By arrangement with the School of Humanities and the Cultural Heritage, the Degree Programme will organize catch-up courses with obligatory attendance, focusing on the gaps in knowledge revealed by the test. This OFA will be deemed fulfilled exclusively by the student sitting and passing the end-of-course test or one of the three later test sessions held in the course of the academic year.

Students failing to pass an OFA by the deadline set bythe Academic Authorities and published on the University Portal will have to enrol to repeat the whole first year, including passing the OFA.