Mobility studies (study track)
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Call for Applications - A.Y. 2025/26
- Call One: 2 November 2024 - 2 February 2025 APPLICATION PLATFORM
The mobility studies curriculum is driven by the belief that the humanities can play a crucial role in understanding and addressing mobility in modern society. Students will be immersed in the process through which people, texts, images, artefacts, commodities and ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors – sometime in distant spatial contexts – in the past and in the present. Global and local scenarios call for new experts who are trained in historical and cultural studies but ready for political and social action today. An interdisciplinary education at an international level and enriched by inter-sectoral experiences is fundamental to facing the current difficulties that young humanists face when approaching the new job market in both the private and public sectors.
Programme structure
Core units: Migrations in World History, Transport History, Ideas and Cultures in Motion, Communication and Media in History
History and Social Sciences: Commodity Chains in World History, History of Tourism, Demography and Migration, Space, Place and Mobility, Cultural Encounters, Museum Collections Heritage
Theory and Methods: Digital Tools for Mobility Research, Big Data and Social Network Analysis
Literature, Law and Social Sciences: English as a Global Language, Texts on the move, Digital Philology, European and Global Citizenship, Gender EU politics and globalization, Economic globalization and human rights
Laboratories: Statistics and Databases, Public History, Academic speaking and writing
Internship and Final Project
Career Opportunities
Beyond the employment possibilities in the academy, high school or cultural institutions, such as libraries, museums and archives, graduates will be offered cognitive tools and concrete training opportunities to find a job in state and local government agencies, international organisations such as NGOs, cultural tourism and the heritage, digital and communications industries.