Presentation

Educational aims

The Degree Course in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” aims at providing students with competences enabling them to acquire critical awareness of the relations among events and processes of the contemporary age and the past. The interdisciplinary approach to historical processes, read under a cultural, socio-economic and anthropological perspective, the acquisition of the relevant study methods, their connection with geographical and political teachings, provide a solid basic knowledge of global phenomena under a comparative perspective. The Degree Course is structured in a single curriculum, aiming at providing solid training, focused on the knowledge of the most important institutional, economic, social, cultural, and religious phenomena from the ancient to the contemporary age. The educational programme provides students, in the first and second year, basic notions about the main historical periods as well as the knowledge of the methods of social sciences, useful for historical analysis (geography, political philosophy, political economics, anthropology). During the second and third course year, the course provides notions related to various areas of historical analysis and enables students to build an educational path responding to their specific interests. In fact, through the various options of the educational programme and using free credits, students will be able to get advanced knowledge in their specific area of interest. During the last year, students have the chance to learn the basics of sociological subjects and to analyse in depth paths connected to globalisation and to religious and cultural interaction. In addition, the choice to provide, in the third course year, a large group of optional subjects responds to the wish to provide students with the possibility of integrating their programme with further perspectives on globalism, through teachings covering political, social, literary areas, also in preparation of the 2nd cycle studies. This perspective will be further enriched by educational activities (credits “F” of the course syllabus) enhancing students’ informed participation as well as the consolidation of the theoretical and methodological tools acquired in the three years. The educational programme has been designed taking into account two factors: the importance to follow a chronological order of historical subjects, to enable students to learn the evolution of phenomena; the will to include in the first year, and in the first semester of the second year subjects which, although not being propaedeutic to other subjects, provide students with functional knowledge and methodologies to tackle the teachings provided in the 2nd semester of the second year, and in the third year. It is believed that this educational framework can guarantee students a greater ease of understanding avoiding, therefore, slowdowns in their careers. At the end of the programme students will be able to use the most common IT tools useful for human sciences (on-line databases, bibliographic and source repertories, GIS methodologies). Furthermore, it is believed that such organisation enables students to face the final examination with methodological and critical awareness having acquired, at the same time, the skills needed to start a 2nd cycle course. The Degree Course in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” includes educational activities grouped as follows: a) basic educational activities; b) class-specific educational activities; c) educational activities in one or more related or integrative areas, with respect also to context cultures and interdisciplinary education; d) elective activities; e) educational activities for further linguistic knowledge f) laboratory activities.

work perspectives

Profile: Cultural Operator Functions: Coordinating, organising, planning activities and projects, cultural operators coordinate the professionals involved in the planning of training courses and educational activities aiming at cultural dissemination; they carry out the filing and classification of informative documentation; they organise projects related to the outfitting and management of exhibitions, repertoires and other initiatives; they organise educational and dissemination activities connected to cultural events, exhibitions, etc. Skills: Ability to write correctly in Italian; ability to coordinate a work team; ability to select and organize information and documentation from specific sources and repertoires; ability to define and discuss proposals and contents; computing skills; aptitude to tackle new issues and to enrich one's wealth of knowledge and skills; ability to use search engines and the Internet and to consult relational databases; good presentation skills. Professional opportunities: Local authorities and public administration; Institutes, public and private agencies related to cultural production and dissemination; Foundations; Museums; Libraries; Archives; Superintendence; Training agencies and companies; Cultural entrepreneurship. Profile: Press office and external communication assistant Functions: Communication assistant for events and activities; preparation informative texts intended for paper communication (printed illustrative material contents) and multimedia (websites and web pages contents); organizes and archives the press review according to agreed criteria; carries out the editing and presentation of texts; carries out interviews; handles communication with external agencies and bodies. Skills: ability to write concisely and correctly in Italian; ability to coordinate with a work team; ability to select and organize information and documentation from specific sources; computing skills; ability to use search engines and the Internet and to consult relational databases; ability to use word processing programs and systems; ability to verify the authenticity of the information found; ability to effectively formalize a text containing news to be transmitted; ability to collect and transcribe pronounced interventions; fluency in the conversation and relations with different interlocutors. Professional opportunities: Local authorities, public administration; Institutes, public and private companies; Foundations; Museums; Superintendence; Entrepreneurship. Profile: Archive and library assistant Functions: Assistance in the classification and archiving of documents and other information supports and participation in research on information materials. Skills: Basic knowledge of the categories of documents that can be stored and archived, of the functioning of administrative and management structures, of the basic cataloguing and inventorying principles. Professional opportunities: National, regional, municipal, university, private libraries; public and private agencies with archives and/or libraries or reading rooms. Profile: Librarian Functions: Indexing and cataloguing of books; conservation, accessibility, and public use of books; advertising of books on microfilm, digital or other media; organization of promotional activities, exhibitions and events. Skills: Knowledge of the basic notions of librarianship and bibliography, of the history of publishing and printing, of the social and cultural function of books and written texts, of the organizational, promotional and communicative modalities of cultural institutions and in particular of libraries. Professional opportunities: National, regional, municipal, university, private libraries; publishing houses; libraries; antiquarians; auction houses. Profile: Organizer of conferences and receptions Functions: Participation in the organization of conventions, conferences, receptions, re-enactments, festivals with historical, anthropological, geographical, political-economic contents. Skills: Basic knowledge of the themes and methods of development of historical, anthropological, geographical, socio-political research. Professional opportunities: Public and private bodies dedicated to the organization of conferences, events, and receptions. Profile: Executive Secretary Functions: Organisation, coordination and management of operational aspects of executives’ activities; management of the communication among the management, the company and the outside, support in the drafting of documents, data processing and information management. Skills: Organizational and management skills, communication skills, aptitude for information management. Professional opportunities: Companies and public and private agencies with secretarial offices. Profile: Cultural mediator in the social field Functions: Graduates will be able to work as mediators in the social field, in personal services, in activities requiring a self-reflective vision on intercultural dynamics, in conflict situations. Their tasks will be related to the interactions between specialized operators and the recipients of services, to the conception and construction of good practices, to the development of projects for cultural and religious mediation. Skills: During the course, undergraduates acquire basic and advanced skills in the fields of anthropological knowledge, historical-religious comparison, cultural and social dynamics. The internships opportunities provided by the Degree Course, through specific agreements with institutions, provide undergraduates with soft skills as well as with a first approach to professional practice: listening, relational and interrelated skills, self-reflexivity, elaboration of good practice, in line with the aims of the third mission of the degree class Professional opportunities a) in public and private institutions and bodies active in the welfare and social services areas; b) in centres, associations, non-profit organizations, agencies providing personal services and mediation.

Characteristics of the final exam

The 1° cycle Degree in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” is achieved after passing a final examination which is held in accordance with the Degree Course Regulations, based on the guidelines of the Board of the Department. To be admitted to the final examination, and acquire the relevant 3 credits, students must have obtained 177 credits, including the ones related to the knowledge of a foreign language. The final examination aims at ascertaining the level of awareness and maturity reached by students through the achievement of the specific objectives and the related competences provided by the Degree Course. The final examination takes place according to the academic calendar of the University, and in any case after the last exam session useful for undergraduates. Registration for the final exam takes place in the same way as for the other exams.

Educational aims

The Degree Course in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” aims at providing students with competences enabling them to acquire critical awareness of the relations among events and processes of the contemporary age and the past. The interdisciplinary approach to historical processes, read under a cultural, socio-economic and anthropological perspective, the acquisition of the relevant study methods, their connection with geographical and political teachings, provide a solid basic knowledge of global phenomena under a comparative perspective. The Degree Course is structured in a single curriculum, aiming at providing solid training, focused on the knowledge of the most important institutional, economic, social, cultural, and religious phenomena from the ancient to the contemporary age. The educational programme provides students, in the first and second year, basic notions about the main historical periods as well as the knowledge of the methods of social sciences, useful for historical analysis (geography, political philosophy, political economics, anthropology). During the second and third course year, the course provides notions related to various areas of historical analysis and enables students to build an educational path responding to their specific interests. In fact, through the various options of the educational programme and using free credits, students will be able to get advanced knowledge in their specific area of interest. During the last year, students have the chance to learn the basics of sociological subjects and to analyse in depth paths connected to globalisation and to religious and cultural interaction. In addition, the choice to provide, in the third course year, a large group of optional subjects responds to the wish to provide students with the possibility of integrating their programme with further perspectives on globalism, through teachings covering political, social, literary areas, also in preparation of the 2nd cycle studies. This perspective will be further enriched by educational activities (credits “F” of the course syllabus) enhancing students’ informed participation as well as the consolidation of the theoretical and methodological tools acquired in the three years. The educational programme has been designed taking into account two factors: the importance to follow a chronological order of historical subjects, to enable students to learn the evolution of phenomena; the will to include in the first year, and in the first semester of the second year subjects which, although not being propaedeutic to other subjects, provide students with functional knowledge and methodologies to tackle the teachings provided in the 2nd semester of the second year, and in the third year. It is believed that this educational framework can guarantee students a greater ease of understanding avoiding, therefore, slowdowns in their careers. At the end of the programme students will be able to use the most common IT tools useful for human sciences (on-line databases, bibliographic and source repertories, GIS methodologies). Furthermore, it is believed that such organisation enables students to face the final examination with methodological and critical awareness having acquired, at the same time, the skills needed to start a 2nd cycle course. The Degree Course in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” includes educational activities grouped as follows: a) basic educational activities; b) class-specific educational activities; c) educational activities in one or more related or integrative areas, with respect also to context cultures and interdisciplinary education; d) elective activities; e) educational activities for further linguistic knowledge f) laboratory activities.

work perspectives

Profile: Cultural Operator Functions: Coordinating, organising, planning activities and projects, cultural operators coordinate the professionals involved in the planning of training courses and educational activities aiming at cultural dissemination; they carry out the filing and classification of informative documentation; they organise projects related to the outfitting and management of exhibitions, repertoires and other initiatives; they organise educational and dissemination activities connected to cultural events, exhibitions, etc. Skills: Ability to write correctly in Italian; ability to coordinate a work team; ability to select and organize information and documentation from specific sources and repertoires; ability to define and discuss proposals and contents; computing skills; aptitude to tackle new issues and to enrich one's wealth of knowledge and skills; ability to use search engines and the Internet and to consult relational databases; good presentation skills. Professional opportunities: Local authorities and public administration; Institutes, public and private agencies related to cultural production and dissemination; Foundations; Museums; Libraries; Archives; Superintendence; Training agencies and companies; Cultural entrepreneurship. Profile: Press office and external communication assistant Functions: Communication assistant for events and activities; preparation informative texts intended for paper communication (printed illustrative material contents) and multimedia (websites and web pages contents); organizes and archives the press review according to agreed criteria; carries out the editing and presentation of texts; carries out interviews; handles communication with external agencies and bodies. Skills: ability to write concisely and correctly in Italian; ability to coordinate with a work team; ability to select and organize information and documentation from specific sources; computing skills; ability to use search engines and the Internet and to consult relational databases; ability to use word processing programs and systems; ability to verify the authenticity of the information found; ability to effectively formalize a text containing news to be transmitted; ability to collect and transcribe pronounced interventions; fluency in the conversation and relations with different interlocutors. Professional opportunities: Local authorities, public administration; Institutes, public and private companies; Foundations; Museums; Superintendence; Entrepreneurship. Profile: Archive and library assistant Functions: Assistance in the classification and archiving of documents and other information supports and participation in research on information materials. Skills: Basic knowledge of the categories of documents that can be stored and archived, of the functioning of administrative and management structures, of the basic cataloguing and inventorying principles. Professional opportunities: National, regional, municipal, university, private libraries; public and private agencies with archives and/or libraries or reading rooms. Profile: Librarian Functions: Indexing and cataloguing of books; conservation, accessibility, and public use of books; advertising of books on microfilm, digital or other media; organization of promotional activities, exhibitions and events. Skills: Knowledge of the basic notions of librarianship and bibliography, of the history of publishing and printing, of the social and cultural function of books and written texts, of the organizational, promotional and communicative modalities of cultural institutions and in particular of libraries. Professional opportunities: National, regional, municipal, university, private libraries; publishing houses; libraries; antiquarians; auction houses. Profile: Organizer of conferences and receptions Functions: Participation in the organization of conventions, conferences, receptions, re-enactments, festivals with historical, anthropological, geographical, political-economic contents. Skills: Basic knowledge of the themes and methods of development of historical, anthropological, geographical, socio-political research. Professional opportunities: Public and private bodies dedicated to the organization of conferences, events, and receptions. Profile: Executive Secretary Functions: Organisation, coordination and management of operational aspects of executives’ activities; management of the communication among the management, the company and the outside, support in the drafting of documents, data processing and information management. Skills: Organizational and management skills, communication skills, aptitude for information management. Professional opportunities: Companies and public and private agencies with secretarial offices. Profile: Cultural mediator in the social field Functions: Graduates will be able to work as mediators in the social field, in personal services, in activities requiring a self-reflective vision on intercultural dynamics, in conflict situations. Their tasks will be related to the interactions between specialized operators and the recipients of services, to the conception and construction of good practices, to the development of projects for cultural and religious mediation. Skills: During the course, undergraduates acquire basic and advanced skills in the fields of anthropological knowledge, historical-religious comparison, cultural and social dynamics. The internships opportunities provided by the Degree Course, through specific agreements with institutions, provide undergraduates with soft skills as well as with a first approach to professional practice: listening, relational and interrelated skills, self-reflexivity, elaboration of good practice, in line with the aims of the third mission of the degree class Professional opportunities a) in public and private institutions and bodies active in the welfare and social services areas; b) in centres, associations, non-profit organizations, agencies providing personal services and mediation.

Characteristics of the final exam

The 1° cycle Degree in “Global Studies. History, Policies, Cultures” is achieved after passing a final examination which is held in accordance with the Degree Course Regulations, based on the guidelines of the Board of the Department. To be admitted to the final examination, and acquire the relevant 3 credits, students must have obtained 177 credits, including the ones related to the knowledge of a foreign language. The final examination aims at ascertaining the level of awareness and maturity reached by students through the achievement of the specific objectives and the related competences provided by the Degree Course. The final examination takes place according to the academic calendar of the University, and in any case after the last exam session useful for undergraduates. Registration for the final exam takes place in the same way as for the other exams.