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

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Subject specific
— World history: knowledge and understanding of: main historical processes
and events in all continents since the early middle ages and their interrelation
and of current debates and research orientations regarding them.
— Analysis of documents: retrieving, understanding and placing archival material,
historiographical contributions and debates regarding the past in their
political and cultural context.
— Historical period / theme: Detailed knowledge and understanding of a particular
period/thematic domain and the methodologies and historiographical
debates regarding it.
— Knowledge of the resources available for historical research including those
based on ICT and ability to use them appropriately.
— Use of appropriate terminology and modes of expression of the discipline in
oral and written form in one’s own language and in a second language.
— Awareness of and ability to use tools of other human sciences as necessary
with regard to a research project.
— Cooperation to complete specific tasks relating to the discipline (gathering
and treating data, developing analyses, presenting results).
— Planning and delivering an individual research-based contribution to historiographical
knowledge bearing on a significant problem.
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Programme learning outcomes
The graduate can demonstrate:
— ability to formulate and refine a significant research problem, gathered the
necessary information to address it and formulated a conclusion which can be
defended in a scholarly context.
— awareness of and commitment to scientific standards in accuracy and breadth
of the documentation located, utilised and cited in assignments and in the
final dissertation.
— ability to participate in group work productively and taking the lead on occasion,
presiding over debates and discussions in an international or multicultural
group.
— ability to present written texts and to give oral presentations of different length
and complexity in his/her own and another language useful for the area of specialisation.
— ability to choose a sector of specialisation, planning and completing appropriate
course work, and utilising the resulting competences in preparing and carrying
out a research plan within the established time frame.
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