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6813 - History and Oriental Studies
The curricula of this 2nd cycle degree programme provide historians with complete knowledge of the epistemological foundations of historical research, a solid command of historical method and general knowledge of world history from its origins to the present day. Graduates will have specialist knowledge of a European historic period (ancient, mediaeval, early modern, contemporary history), or of the history of culturally defined areas outside Europe, and namely in Asia and Africa.
The programme curricula are suitably designed to respond to these specialisations.
The course units allow students to acquire a specialist level of knowledge, the methods and practices of historical studies, allowing them to critically use the sources and historiography of their specific era of study.
The programme also provides mastery in reading, analysis and heuristic methods and tools for different types of literary, documentary, archive, iconographic and monumental materials, also using the latest technological applications, and appropriate knowledge of investigation techniques on original sources, both individually and in their overall context (learning area 2 – Methodologies and tools for source analysis). For the relative curricula, this also implies the study of at least one Eastern language, understood as a key to grasping the cultural world behind it (learning area 4 – Cultures, languages, religions). The competences acquired meet the professional needs of historians seeking to specialise as Curators, Archivists and Library Conservators.
The programme focuses particularly on the history of cultures and religions, in learning area 4 – Cultures, languages, religions, and on the history of cultural, economic, social and environmental phenomena, on interdisciplinary approaches (anthropology, archaeology, philosophy, politics, geography, law, institutions, religions, history, art, gender studies) and job-oriented approaches (teaching, museums, communication), in learning area 3 – History of mentalities and territory. The course units in these areas, associated to those in learning area 1 – General and European history, allow students to acquire perspectives, investigation methods and contents (e.g. social and economic history, anthropology and political history, history of the institutions, historical and anthropological studies of religions and artistic works, intellectual history and the history of ideas) which are indispensable for both interdisciplinary research and vocational training in the fields of communication, teaching and scientific dissemination.
Digital skills are acquired as part of the core subject groups within the area of Sources, methodologies, techniques and tools of historical research, but also as part of the activities included in learning area 2 – Methodologies and tools for source analysis, and especially Laboratories.
