History, Anthropology and Geography
What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?
What does it train you for?
The course originates from a project hinged in the context of the human sciences, focusing on the study of space, history, people, traditions and social and cultural relations over time, and the relationship between the environment and historical events.
The knowledge and competences at the intersection of historical, anthropological and human geography studies are articulated in a specialised training project aimed at providing professional and methodological tools in the service sectors and cultural initiatives, as well as in specific institutions.
The course provides specialised knowledge of historical issues relating to human civilisations on a broad scale, starting with the Middle Ages, and of issues relating to the relationship between cultures, societies, economies and environments.
The specific objectives of each course as well as the syllabus of each individual course can be consulted in the educational offer (manifesto degli studi) for each academic year.
What do you learn?
The course is divided into two curricula: ‘historical’ and ‘anthropological and geographical’.
Common to both curricula, in addition to some characterising teachings in the fields of history, anthropology and geography - are also the formative internship (6 cfu), laboratories (6 cfu), English level B2 (6 cfu), and 12 cfu of the student's choice.
On the one hand, the course aims to introduce students to the methodologies of research and production of historical knowledge aware of the acquisitions and revisions of the historiographical tradition, on the other hand, to the critical treatment of sources of different nature, in the light of the current use of information technologies, geographical information systems.
Focus areas of historical problems concern political and institutional, social and economic, cultural and religious processes and their mutual influences in the long term.
Furthermore, the course provides methodological and technical competences in the field of anthropological and geographical studies, in particular with regard to study and research approaches to the relationships between cultural dimensions, social processes, forms of religiosity and living environments; the analysis of cultural complexity in contemporary societies; the relationships between language, communication, culture and power; perceptions and representations of territory and space; the activities of documentation, protection and valorisation of demo-ethno-anthropological cultural heritage.
What can you do with it?
Graduates of the Course will acquire professional skills in the field of historiographic, anthropological and geographical research, and in the management, organisation, promotion of cultural heritage (historical-documentary and/or archival, demo-ethno-anthropological and geographical) and of the tourism sector to be exercised in public bodies (libraries archives, museums, cultural heritages), non-profit organisations (associations, foundations, NGOs, third sector in general), service sector companies specialised in the tourism sector, companies for editorial production and website management and updating, public administrations (State, regions and local authorities).
They also obtain the training and basic requirements for access, after obtaining the relevant qualifications, to the teaching of humanities disciplines in first and second grade secondary schools, subject to any additions required by law.