Bachelor's Degree Programme in
History
Enrolment from 2025/2026

Summary
Academic year 2025/2026

Level of qualification

Bachelor's Degree Programme

Ministerial Degree Code

L-42 R (History)

Language

Italian

Attendance

Open

Where

Department of Humanities, Malcanton Marcorà, Dorsoduro 3484/D, 30123 Venice (Italy)
For further information please contact the Humanistic Campus campus.umanistico@unive.it.

Head of studies

Prof. Simon Levis Sullam (Teaching Committee Coordinator, levissmn@unive.it)

Access to the programme

Open admission.

Quota reserved to non-EU students residing outside Italy: 7 seats, of which 4 are reserved for Chinese students living in China, under the Marco Polo Project.

Admission requirements

To access the course, a previous suitable background is required. Each curriculum requires specific knowledge, which the student should have before enrolling the university in order to attend the course successfully. This knowledge may be verified before enrolling.

If the result of the test is negative, the student can enroll, but they receive a supplementary required exam (OFA), which means that the student must fill any gaps in their background through specific activities organized by the University.

More information on OFA for this programme is available on the webpage dedicated to the admission and enrolment.

Admission with international qualification

Applicants with international qualification must have obtained a secondary school diploma after having completed at least 12 years of schooling. The preliminary evaluation of the qualification is mandatory. Procedures and deadlines are available on the online platform Apply.
Further details in the webpage dedicated to admission and enrolment with an international qualification.

Course overview

In the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in History past events and phenomena are analysed through a critical investigation in order to learn how to reconstruct and understand the sequencing of different societies and their reciprocal connections. It provides historical and humanistic knowledge and the fundamental contents and methodology of research in a historic, anthropologic, social and documentary environment, relative to the chronological arc that goes from ancient times to present days. It offers diverse paths for a cultural growth in the fields of history and social sciences, that allow access to different Master’s degree programmes and offers, already at this level, useful tools to manage interpersonal relations and complex decision processes of organizational structures such as public businesses and administrations.

Curricula

  • Anthropology
  • Archive and Library Studies
  • History - From European Hegemony to Globalization
  • History - The Mediterranean World from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Examination assessment and graduation

The educational activities include classroom teaching, workshops and internships, in order to acquire wide-ranging skills that can be readily transferable into the world of work.
Knowledge acquired by students will be assessed through written and oral exams during the entire university career.
The degree exam consists in writing a paper/thesis, that will be evaluated through methods similar to those of a written exam but without the student being present. Should the supervisor deem the oral discussion of the thesis to be necessary, he/she may require it.

Access to further studies

Professional Master’s Programmes (1st level) and Master's Degree Programmes

Occupational profiles

Graduates in History have a solid preparation in the historical disciplines used to work in fields of information, editing and journalism. Upon completing the study of this with the Master’s Degree programme, students can teach historical subjects, literature and philosophy in secondary school (first and second grade). Students They can be involved work in public and private structures operating in fields of historical culture and conservation of memory.

Those interested in teaching must compile a study plan consistent with the requirements necessary to access the various teaching classes, which are: Philosophy and History; Literary subjects in upper secondary schools; Italian, History, Geography in lower secondary schools; Literary subjects and Latin; Literary subjects, Latin and Greek.

file pdf Requirements for teaching qualification with the degree class LM-84 [ITA] 82 KB
file pdf Presidential Decree n. 19/2016 - Ministerial teaching qualification classes [ITA] 3 MB