Creating a New Historical Perspective: EU and the Wider World ...

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1 Disciplines(s) /
Subject area(s)
2 General /
Specialist focus
3 Orientation
4 Distinctive
features
Characteristics
History: the major emphasis is on history, but some work
in one or more related areas is obligatory. The student
chooses the area(s) with reference to his/her specific interest
and area of specialisation (such as sociology, anthropology,
archaeology, art history, area studies, communications
studies, economics, international relations or a language).
History; minor; electives (70:20:10).
General: with emphasis on developing a broad overview
as well a deep knowledge of the relationship of the human
past and present and an ability to understand critically the
transformations that the practice of historiography is undergoing
today.
Research orientation: emphasizing both individual and
group research competences; strong emphasis also on writing
and other forms of communication in own language and
fl uent use of a European and a non-European language.
The programme develops European and world history perspectives
as deep knowledge and a critical approach to national
and regional historiographies. Spatial as well as diachronic
and thematic aspects of History from the Middle
Ages to the present are cultivated. Students are encouraged
to take advantage of possibilities for study outside Europe
for their thesis work, although this is not obligatory.
C
1 Employability
2 Further studies
Employability & further education
Positions at Postgraduate (MA) level in the public/private
administrations, museums, archives (with minor and electives
in archival studies), communications, journalism, and,
with additional qualification, secondary school teaching ,
and historical research
Access to related third cycle (doctoral) programmes; access
to further qualification for secondary school teaching (on a
numerus clausus basis in Arcadia).
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