ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

The undergraduate university study programme in History of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean is the first study in humanities at the University of Dubrovnik, offering a very innovative programme. A special feature of this programme is the topic itself. Namely, although comprising courses from the antiquity to the modern history, lectures primarily cover the history of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and the modern period (6^th-19^th century). Another interesting feature of this programme is its focus on practical skills (i.e. auxiliary sciences of history, cultural management, etc.), whereby students acquire skills that enable them to also find work beyond the scientific or the teaching sector, e.g., in tourism, cultural industry or the media. This programme is also special because of its interdisciplinarity. Students are educated not only in history but in other sciences as well, ranging from demography and economics to art history and literature. Professors from the University of Dubrovnik, University of Zagreb and other education institutions teach classes at this programme. This programme is carried out in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb.

PROGRAMME’S OPENNESS TO STUDENT MOBILITY

In accordance with the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), the undergraduate university study programme in History of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean is horizontally open to all other history study programmes and offers a vertical mobility towards a graduate university study programme. In accordance with the Bologna Process principles, students have the option to spend a part of their studies at similar undergraduate study programmes in the Republic of Croatia or abroad, to enrol elective courses in historical sciences and to accumulate the prescribed number of ECTS credits. According to the same principles, the programme is also open to foreign students and it offers a number of courses in the English language. After completing the undergraduate university study programme in History of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean, students can continue their studies at the graduate level as in line with the Bologna principles.

PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will be trained to the interpret the basic processes and structures that have marked the history of Europe, of the Mediterranean and of the Adriatic in the long period stretching from the antiquity to the modern times. They will be able to define and interpret the basic topics from the field of humanities and social sciences, define and describe the sub-disciplines of historical sciences as well as the basic disciplines of humanities and social sciences. Also, they will be able to describe the historical development and the basic institutional infrastructure of the European and of the Croatian humanities.

Students will be able to cite, summarise and analyse comprehensive scientific literature relating to the history of the Mediterranean, of Dalmatia and of Dubrovnik as well as the works representing modern theoretical and methodological trends in histography and humanities. Also, they will gain insight into historical topics in the European and Croatian culture beyond the narrow scientific context as well as insight into such topics in modern popular culture.

Students will be trained to evaluate scientific and publicist papers on historical topics, analyse their credibility, relevance and originality, and will be able to write a substantiated critical opinion according to the standards of the expertise in history.

PROGRAMME DURATION

The undergraduate university study programme in History of the Adriatic and of the Mediterranean lasts three years or six semesters (180 ECTS credits).

DEGREE AWARDED

Upon the completion of this undergraduate programme, students are awarded the academic degree of a Bachelor (Baccalaureus) in History, abbreviated: univ. bacc. hist.

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Having in mind its versatile curriculum with courses in a number of disciplines, this programme educates students for a broad range of jobs. Bachelors in History will be able to find work / employment in the usual jobs for those who have graduated from a three-year history programme. Since its courses are linked with tourism, management and conservation, this programme also prepares students for jobs in the tourist industry. Experts who combine an education in history with the knowledge of cultural management and tourism will have an ideal skillset to present and preserve cultural heritage.

BENEFITS

Croatian citizens with residence in the City of Dubrovnik may exercise their right to a scholarship loan, either in the form of a loan to cover their costs of living and/or a loan to pay their tuition.

Compulsory courses

• History of the Mediterranean: Man and Landscape
• Economic History of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean
• Modern Historiography: Theories and Methods
• Latin Language Fundamentals for Historians I
• History of Inhabitants of the Mediterranean and Adriatic
• Collective Identity of the Mediterranean and Adriatic
• Introduction to History of the Republic of Ragusa
• Latin Language Fundamentals for Historians II
• Foreign Language (English, Italian or French)

Elective courses

• Introduction to Historical Anthropology of the Antiquity: Selected Examples
• East Adriatic: Rule and Ownership
• Venice and the Mediterranean
• Byzantium and the Mediterranean
• History of Croatian Tourism
• Viticulture in the Mediterranean
• Seamanship of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
• Economy and Society of the Eastern Adriatic 1797-1918: Between Halt and Development
• Life Cycle in the Late Medieval and Renaissance West
• History of Epidemics in the Mediterranean

Elective courses from other study programmes

(Students choose 1 course)

• Introduction to Political Science
• Museography
• Art History of the Antiquity
• Cultural Heritage
• History of Medieval Art

Compulsory courses

• Social History of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Historical Anthropology of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Political History of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Institutions and Legal Traditions of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Foreign Language (English, Italian or French)

Elective courses

• Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean
• Mediterranean Pilgrimages
• Marginal Mediterranean City Groups in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
• History of Violence in the European Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
• History of Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
• Historical Imagology of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Roman Legal History
• Historian and Law: Practicum in Legal Diplomacy (Wills, Contracts, Regulations, Court Minutes)
• Emergence and Development of Dalmatian City Communes
• Mutinies, Revolutions and Civil Wars in Medieval and Modern Period Europe
• Medieval Family in the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Military History of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Christianisation of the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity

Elective courses from other study programmes

(Students choose 1 course)

• History of Political Ideas
• Art of the Renaissance and Baroque
• Rhetoric
• Modern and Contemporary Art History
• Contemporary Political Ideas and Ideologies
• Economic History of Croatia
• History of Architecture

Compulsory courses

• Cultural History of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Religious History of the Adriatic and Mediterranean
• Foreign Language (English, Italian or French)
• Medieval Space in Modernity
• Practicum in Historiography
• Auxiliary Sciences of History (Palaeography, Diplomatics with Chronology)
• Computer Science Methods in Historiography
• Introduction to History of Illustrated Medieval Manuscripts
• Writing of Undergraduate Thesis

Elective courses

• Religious and Cultural Contacts in the Mediterranean
• Medieval Church Institutions
• Literature of the Renaissance and Baroque in Croatia
• Benedictine Order in Dalmatia: History and Various Aspects of its Cultural Heritage
• Architecture and Art in the Eastern Adriatic in the Context of Regional Political and Church History (11^th-16^th century)
• Mediterranean Historical Gardens

Elective courses from other study programmes

(Students choose 1 course)

• Cultural Property Law
• Cultural Property Management I
• General Theory of Heritage
• European Integration
• Cultural Property Management II

CONTACT

www.unidu.hr

Phone: 020 446 028, 446 071

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