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Bachelor's Programme History

Would you like to broaden your understanding of the past and present and work on historical issues?

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The students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in History acquire basic knowledge of historical periods, key dates and connections and their diverse historical expressions.

In this programme students learn to understand different cultures of the past and present and to approach contemporary issues in an impartial, objective and analytical way by considering different research perpectives (e.g. political, social, economic).

Please note: the language of instruction for this programme is German.

Bachelor of Arts

Duration/ECTS-Credits
6 semesters/180 ECTS-Credits

Mode of Study
Full-time

Language
German

Requirements
Secondary school completion certificate/equivalent and Language Certificates

Supplemental exam
Latin

Faculty
Faculty of Philosophy and History

Level of qualification
Bachelor (First Cycle)
ISCED-11: Level 6, EQF/NQF: Level 6

ISCED-F
0222 History and archaeology

Study Code
UC 033 603

Dates and Deadlines for admission
Bachelorstudium Geschichte

FAQ

Graduates are able to elaborate, evaluate and implement scientific issues in the fields of the humanities and to apply them in interdisciplinary contexts. They possess scientifically well-founded theoretical and methodical problem-solving skills and multidisciplinary competences such as presentation skills, information and self-management.

The Bachelor’s Programme History offers basic education in human sciences and prepares for a master’s programme in the humanities. It conveys basic knowledge of historical categories, key data and connections in temporal and spatial diversity, which is to be presented from different research perspectives (e.g. cultural, political, social, economic) promoting the understanding of different cultures in the past and present and allowing a possibly unprejudiced, factual-analytical access to current problems of the present time. 

Students learn to question assured knowledge and receive instructions how to recognize the historicity of gender constructions, ideologies and religious concepts. Aparf from these expert skills, the study programme also imparts general skills such as independent research of information and knowledge, identifying and analysing complex connections and their verbal and oral presentation as well as working in a team. The examination with foreign teaching and learning environments is to be facilitated with a semester abroad.

The Bachelor’s Programme History offers comprehensive basic education in the humanities and prepares for occupational activities in public service, the cultural and social field, media, economy, politics and political counseling. Additonal personal qualifications according to individual inclinations (e.g. languages) complement the study programme.

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History, Archaeology & Cultures

Anyone wishing to study history or archaeology and with an interest in antiquity, regional history, Classical Studies or European Ethnology will find several suitable degree programmes at the University of Innsbruck.

The historical and archaeological subjects are grouped within the Research Area: Cultural Encounters – Cultural Conflicts, one of the University of Innsbruck’s eight Research Areas; there are also links to the Research Area: Mountain Regions and the Digital Science Center.

For digital methods in historical disciplines, the Extension Programme Computer Science is a useful complementary option.

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