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Characteristics and objectives
The Curriculum in Historical Sciences provides specialist training in the historical field, covering the period from late antiquity to the contemporary age.
The course has as main objective to provide students with:
? full awareness of the tools and methods of historical research;
? thorough knowledge of historical themes and processes relating to one of the three traditional periodising segments (Medieval age, Modern age, Contemporary age);
? in-depth knowledge of the debates that run through contemporary historiography;
? the ability to deal with themes and methods from other disciplines (social sciences, philosophy, literature), which are functional to their educational path.
In the courses taught, the reconstruction of the past is carried out through different analytical perspectives (from political and institutional history, to cultural, social, environmental, economic, religious, gender history), which allow those who study to get in touch with and to discuss the main historiographic methods and schools.
The course is also structured in order to offer students the opportunity to acquire the essential notions for a critical and conscious use of the various types of documentary material. Finally, among the subjects classified as optional ('Affini e integrative'), the course includes courses in literary and philosophical subjects, which are not only valuable for the overall human sciences training of those who study, but can also grant access to a career as teachers in secondary schools.
At the end of the master?s course in Historical Sciences, students will have gained a critical knowledge of the main historical phenomena, will be able to independently identify the methods and tools that are useful for their reconstruction and will have acquired the skills to communicate in an appropriate way the knowledge they have acquired.


The Curriculum in Mobility Studies is driven by the assumption that the Humanities can play a crucial role in facing and understanding mobility in present society. This is something different than offering a focus uniquely on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in given historical and geographical frameworks. The MA program in Mobility Studies offers a broader approach. The Curriculum aims at providing students with a selection of specific tools in historical, geographical, anthropological and philological studies, in order to challenge the traditional understanding of human actions, in time and space. 'Challenging forces' such as colonization, migration, exile, tourism are seen as factors that shape cultural identities and not only as phenomena of contamination of given cultures. Students will be immersed in an engaging process through which people, texts, images, artifacts, commodities, ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors, sometime in distant spatial contexts, in the past and in the present. The global and local scenarios call for new experts, trained in historical and cultural studies, but ready for political and social action today.
The program includes general modules on topics in 'history', 'history and social sciences', 'theory and methods' (especially in Digital Humanities) and in Literature, Law and Social Sciences. Laboratories and Internship concludes.


Occupational opportunities (historical sciences)
- Editor and editor, editor and publicist with particular reference to historical communication
- Conservator and conservator (historian, archivist, curator and museum curator) and cultural experts in the area. In order to carry out this type of professional activity, in some cases the acquisition of a further specialization is required
- Researchers and researchers and technicians who have obtained a degree in historical and philosophical sciences. In order to carry out this type of professional activity, in some cases the acquisition of a further specialization is required
- Teachers of historical, philosophical, literary disciplines in secondary schools (to carry out this profession the acquisition of a further specialization is required, according to the provisions of the ministerial legislation relating to teaching qualification)

Occupational opportunities (mobility studies)
State and local government agencies
International organisations
NGOs
Cultural tourism
Heritage industries
Digital and communications industries
Private and public foundations
Academic research
High school teaching
Galleries, museums, archives and libraries

Curricula
MOBILITY STUDIES; SCIENZE STORICHE

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