Degree in History – Teaching Plan – Objetives
Degree´s objectives
The teachings should provide students with a solid historical background. Therefore, the basic objective of the Degree in History is to prepare the student for the exercise of teaching and for professional activities that require a general History training. We understand that the teaching of History provides a rational and critical knowledge of the past so that the individual and the current society in which it is integrated can understand the present.
The student of History must obtain the basic knowledge about the main events and historical change processes, from a diachronic perspective from Prehistory to the present.
The competences that students must have acquired, and those required for the Degree, must be evaluable, observable and measurable in the learning outcomes. And they must move to the Curriculum.
General Objectives of the Degree:
- Achieve a general instruction of the most relevant concepts, categories, theories and topics of the different branches of historical research.
- Provide a rational and critical knowledge of the past of humanity, with the purpose that the student can understand the present and make it intelligible to others.
- Acquire the ability to relate the past events and processes with those of the present and discern the way in which those influence them and guide the future.
- Acquire a general knowledge of the events and change processes and continuity of humanity in a diachronic perspective (from Prehistory to the present world), spatial and comparative history.
- Contribute to the critical recognition of historical and cultural diversity.
- Provide knowledge and basic management of the sources, methods, techniques and tools of the historian’s analysis.
- Train for the professional practice of teaching, research, excavations, and archaeological studies, as well as for work in libraries, archives, historical and cultural heritage management, in international cooperation and for the new cultural enterprises management and creation.
- Identify and master the specific features of cultural heritage.
- Facilitate practical training in each of these potential career opportunities, as well as in the most common teaching and research.
- Generate and develop attitudes of tolerance and respect for the points of view that derive from different historical and cultural traditions.
- Develop civic awareness.