Student profile
Type of Degree
The ideal profile of someone who wishes to study the Bachelor’s degree in History is that of a person with a firm grounding in and a vocation for humanist culture, and a social awareness, critical spirit, an interest in reading, attention and perception skills, a high concern for social habits and customs, a good memory, interest in human issues, a taste for teaching, interest in culture and history and an interest in searching for the meaning of things.
Official University Bachelor’s Degree valid in the entire European Higher Education Area.
WORLD HERITAGE
This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements
Career opportunities Graduates in History will be qualified to work in areas related to: w
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Teaching in Public and Private Centres (Secondary Education, Adult Education Centres, Continuous Education Centres, Private Academies) Literary and textual criticism, publishing services, text correction, literary correction and production by publishers and social communication media. Management and preservation of historical and cultural heritage; Cultural and Tourism and Information and Museum Consultancy; Private Foundations; Leisure Time Monitor. Historical research, documentation, archives and libraries. Diplomatic career and various branches of the civil service
Course contents The study plan covers the general education that any Bachelor’s degree is required to teach by law. This is an advantage for students aiming to enter the teaching labour market. A good general grounding in History will enhance the academic background required for teachers in preuniversity teaching. However, the general training is no hindrance to students being able to take a range of subjects structured in tracks as part of the proposed structure of the Bachelor’s degree, and is no obstacle to the specialisation required by law in postgraduate courses, which involves a more intense and in-depth knowledge of certain aspects of historical issues. Students in the Bachelor’s Degree of History have at the end of this degree the opportunity to specialise in a specific field within historical studies, which they have had the opportunity to discover during the teaching of the obligatory and basic subjects in the first three years of the Bachelor’s Degree. As a result, History graduates obtain training that provides them with the best teaching environment and with the optimum skills to take subsequent courses and to work professionally.
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY AND ARTS Colegio de Málaga
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Bachelor’s Degree in:
Overall credit distribution
SUBJECT TYPE
History
ECTS
Basic Training (B)
60
Obligatory (Ob)
108
Optional (Opt)
60
Bachelor's Degree Final Project (Ob)
12
TOTAL CREDITS
240
STUDY PLAN Optional subjects
FIRST YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Type
ECTS
The Origins of Humanity
B
6
Second semester Archaeology
Ob
7.5
Prehistory of American Indian Societies
B
6
Origins of Europe in the Middle Ages
B
7.5
Social History of Written Culture
B
6
European History in the Modern Age
B
7.5
History of Political Thought
B
6
Contemporary World History
B
Ancient History I
B
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
Archaeology And Heritage Management
ECTS
The Modern World: Origins And Processes Of Globalisation
ECTS
Classification and Drawing of Archaeological Materials (Prehistory)
6
Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms and Nations (Modern History)
6
Archaeological Heritage Management (Prehistory)
6
Humanism, the Baroque and the Enlightenment (Modern History)
6
7.5
Historiography of Archaeology in Spain (Ancient History)
6
Baroque Art and Society (Art)
6
The Mediterranean in Antiquity: a Crossroads of Cultures (Ancient History)
6
History of Modern Thought (Philosophy)
6
30
Prehistoric Technology (Prehistory)
6
Churches, Confessionalism and Dissent (Modern History)
6
Medieval Archaeology (Archaeology)
6
Humanism and the Artistic Renaissance (Art)
6
SECOND YEAR
Archaeology of the Roman World (Ancient History)
6
Formation of Multi-ethnic States in Latin America (American History)
6
Type
ECTS
6
Modern Palaeography (Historiographical Sciences and Techniques)
6
History of Ancient and Medieval Art
Ob
6
Exposed Writings: Inscriptions and Graffiti (Historiographical Sciences and Techniques)
First Farmers and Metal Workers
Ob
6
First semester
Second semester
Type
ECTS
History of the Spanish Monarchy (15th-19th Centuries)
Ob
7.5
Contemporary Spanish History (19th and 20th Centuries)
Ob
7.5
The Origins Of European Culture
ECTS
The Historian's Workshop (Medieval History)
6
Medieval Institutions (Medieval History)
6
Prehistoric Writing Systems
Ob
6
History of Modern and Contemporary Art
B
7.5
The Byzantine World (Ancient History)
6
Ancient History II
Ob
6
The Formation of Hispanic Societies (5th-15th Centuries)
Ob
7.5
History of Ancient and Medieval Thought (Philosophy)
6
Economic and Social Foundations of Europe (Medieval History)
6
Roman-Germanic Migrations and Peoples (Ancient History)
6
Geographical Knowledge in Antiquity (Ancient History)
6
Medieval Palaeography and Diplomacy (Historiographical Sciences and Techniques)
6
Modern American History
Ob
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
THIRD YEAR First semester
Type
ECTS
Second semester
Type
ECTS
Modern European Society and Economics
Ob
6
Contemporary American History
Ob
6
Ancient Spanish History
Ob
6
The Modern World
Ob
6
Introduction to the Study of Written Sources
Ob
6
Contemporary Spain
Ob
6
Cultural History of the Middle Ages
Ob
6
History of Contemporary Thought
Ob
6
Cross-Disciplinary Skills I
Opt
6
Cross-Disciplinary Skills II
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
Type
ECTS
FOURTH YEAR Type
ECTS
Optional 1
First semester
Opt
6
Students can choose from:
Second semester
Optional 2
Opt
6
— External practical Training
Opt
18
Optional 3
Opt
6
— Optional 6, 7 and 8
Opt
18
Optional 4
Opt
6
Bachelor's Degree Final Project
Ob
12
Optional 5
Opt
6
Total ECTS
30
Total ECTS
30
TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240 B: Basic Training; Ob: Obligatory; O: Optional
Twentieth Century History
ECTS
Theory and Political Systems of the Twentieth Century (Contemporary History)
6
Science and Culture in the Twentieth Century (Contemporary History)
6
Islam and Society in the Twentieth Century (Modern History)
6
Historical Avant-Gardes and Recent Artistic Trends (Art)
6
Work and the Welfare State in the Twentieth Century (Contemporary History)
6
Catholicism in the Twentieth Century (Contemporary History)
6
Modern Latin America. Legacies of the Past and Challenges for the Future (American History)
6
Private Writing and Memories in the Twentieth Century (Historiographical Sciences and Techniques)
6