History Degree (2nd Ed.)

• Admission profile

  Although no specific prior training is required, for admission to the degree in History, it is recommended that students' training be of a humanistic profile.

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  Although no specific prior training is required, for admission to the degree in History, it is recommended that students' training be of a humanistic profile.

• Tutorial action and reception

  The Faculty of Geography and History of the USC has a Tutorial Action Plan for the centre’s degrees under which activities are organised, some of them collectively and others more personalized, aimed at guiding students in different aspects of their academic life and professional future.
  https://www.usc.gal/es/centro/facultad-geografia-historia/plan-accion-t…

• Title suspension rules

  When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.
  If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.

• Access and admission rules

  The entrance tests to the three Galician universities (Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University (ABAU) and for people over 25 and 45 years old) are organized by the Interuniversity Commission of Galicia (CIUG). To apply for a place, students must meet one of the following access requirements established in article 3 of RD 412/2014:
  • Have a high school diploma or equivalent and pass the university entrance test.
  • Meet the requirements for access to university in the educational systems of Member States of the European Union or other States with which Spain has signed international agreements on this matter.
  • Have passed the university entrance test for those over 25 years of age, for those over 40 years of age with work or professional experience or the test for those over 45 years of age.
  • Possess a degree in higher vocational training, teaching of plastic arts and design or higher sports technician, or equivalent qualifications.
  • Have an official university degree, master's degree or a title corresponding to the previous organization of university education (university diploma, technical architect, technical engineer, graduate, architect, engineer) or equivalent titles.
  • Have completed partial foreign or Spanish university studies, or who, upon completing foreign university studies, have not obtained their homologation in Spain and wish to continue studies at a Spanish university. In this case, it will be an essential requirement that the corresponding university recognize at least 30 ECTS credits.
  • Be able to access the university according to educational regulations prior to Organic Law 8/2013, not included in the previous sections.

  In general, there are the following access routes to the University:
  - University access test (ABAU) Once you have finished high school, in order to access a university degree, you must pass the Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University.
  https://ciug.gal/gal/abau
  - Access from Vocational Training If you have an official title of higher vocational training technician, higher plastic arts and design technician or higher sports technician, or titles, diplomas or studies declared equivalent or approved in the Spanish educational system, you can access to study a degree at the university. Applications will be ordered according to the average grade of the higher technical degree completed out of a maximum of 10. If you wish to improve your admission grade for degree studies, you can take the voluntary part of the ABAU test.
  https://www.usc.es/export9/sites/webinstitucional/gl/servizos/oiu/desca…
  - Access test for people over 25 years of age This test can be taken by people who are over 25 years of age in the year in which the test is held and who do not have any academic qualifications that give access to the university through another means.
  - People over 45 years of age Those over 45 years of age can study official degree qualifications after passing an adapted entrance test.
  - Access over 40 through validation of work experience.

Nowadays, in a complex and multiple world, the study of history is a privileged starting point to face the need of understanding it to taken action. The teaching of History as a simple chronicle of the events, must enable the critical perspective, making place for the teaching of the values of different societies and times, to learn to value and respect them, and learn from them.
The main career opportunity of the graduates in History is, as was to be expected, teaching, although archaeological work is also very relevant.

• Competencies

  BC1 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, especially in a research context.
  BC2 - Apply the knowledge acquired and your problem-solving ability in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to your area of study.
  BC3 - Integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  BC5 - Possess learning skills that allow students to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
  SC1 - Know, analyse and communicate history in general and history specific to the territory.
  SC2 - Know, analyse and interpret in detail one or more specific time periods of the past of humanity.
  SC3 - Know and interpret history as a discipline in progress.
  SC4 - Know and understand the problems up to historiographic debate, as well as the changes these undergo with the passing of time in diverse political, social and cultural contexts.
  SC5 - Become critically aware of the relationship between the social, economic and institutional dimensions of the past.
  SC6 - Know and be able to use the archive, library and documentation centres' description instruments, no matter their support or access.
  SC7 - Understand, interpret and elaborate historiographic texts or original documents in the native language.
  SC8 - Understand the archaeological record as a diachronic sequence of past events and know those strategies useful to organise and understand it.
  GC1 - Know and analyse the diachronic structure of history paying attention to the contribution carried out by people of different genders.
  GC2 -Acquire a rational and critical knowledge of the past of humanity to be able to understand the present.
  GC3 - Use, organise and interpret the historical sources.
  GC4 - Know and manage the concepts, categories and topics more relevant to the branches of historical research.
  GC5 - Know and use the methods and techniques of other social and human sciences.
  K15 - Knowledge on the valorisation of material and immaterial heritage: fundamentals and techniques.
  BC4 - Communicate conclusions, and knowledge and latest reasons to support them, to specialised and non-specialised audiences in a clear manner and without ambiguity.
  TC1 - Apply analytical, critical

• Abilities and skills

  S1 - Be able to manage technological tools applied to the knowledge, understanding and dissemination of the historical contexts.
  S2 - Be able to select, interpret and disseminate information and interpretations about the historical past adapting them to the different audiences and social needs.
  S3 - Be able to work in teams with a collaborative and interdisciplinary attitude within the study and work environment, through debate and share and exchange of ideas and opinions.
  A1 - Identify, interpret and understand the processes of historical change.
  A2 - Apply the historical knowledge to solving current problems.
  A3 - Identify the resources, both theoretical and methodological, offered by other human and social sciences, for the study and understanding of history.
  A4 - Establish relationships with other areas of scientific knowledge that offer information about the history of humanity.
  A5 - Identify the historical information sources, gather and analyse data and elaborate a synthesis in relation to them.
  A6 - Manage the fundamental principles according to which the scientific method is developed, the forms and places of obtaining historical documentation for its subsequent treatment and presentation of results in accordance with the most significant currents.

• Knowledge

  K1 - Concept and fundamental of the historical discipline.
  K2 - Knowledge of the main processes and change factors (political, economic, social, cultural and environmental) along the different historical periods.
  K3 - Knowledge of the contributions developed by people of different genders in the different political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and/or technological fields throughout history.
  K4 - Knowledge of history according to a global and interconnected perspective in time and space.
  K5 - Knowledge of history as an instrument of identity and collective memory, both in the present and past societies.
  K6 - Knowledge of the sources, both archaeological and documental, managed for the interpretation of the historical journey.
  K7 - Knowledge of the historiographical trends and their evolution.
  K8 - Knowledge of the methodologies specific to the Digital Humanities applied to the teaching and historical dissemination areas.
  K9 - Knowledge of the elements, both material and symbolic, that characterise daily life in past societies.
  K10 - Knowledge of the impact generated by human action over the landscape and territory, as well as the historical processes that contributed to climate change.
  K11 - Knowledge of the use of history, both contemporary to historic period and afterwards, and its ability to engender a public opinion.
  K12 - Knowledge of the historical evolution of language in its different registers, as well as oral, written and visual, as a tool for the interpretation of the past.
  K13 - Knowledge of the archaeological techniques and their potential for the analysis of the ways of life of past societies.
  K14 - Knowledge of the building mechanisms of the historiographical account and its narrative potentialities from the present, through public history.
  K16 - Knowledge of the intervention principles at an archaeological site.
  K17 - Knowledge of the principles and procedures of access. consultation of funds and tasks developed in an archive.
  K18 - Know

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional
Regarding the mobility aids of the University of Santiago de Compostela, there are the following ones:

· Mobility grants programmes for the United States and Puerto Rico Universities integrated in the ISEP.

· Mobility grant programmes for Universities from America, Asia and Australia, with which a bilateral agreement has been established.

· Erasmus mobility grant programme for universities from European countries.

· Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window (EMECW) mobility scholarship programme for Central Asian Universities.

· Agreements and letters of interest from the ICT and Audiovisual clusters at the regional level, as well as from CRUSOE and TimeMachine.

Internships

The External Academic Internships (PAE) place students in real professional scenarios that favour the acquisition of knowledge and the implementation of the skills and abilities necessary for their future employment. In this context, students observe, analyse, reflect and learn to make decisions and act. They also allow you to approach the professional world from different dimensions and the development, in a specific space-time context, of the fundamental professional skills of the degree. External academic internships are voluntary.
The Faculty of Geography and History of the USC has a large number of external internship agreements active and renewed in 2022. They can be consulted at the following link:
https://pro-assets-usc.azureedge.net/cdn/ff/s8T-h8RDTFyd2QjPCSPNWGGxc-i…

• Graduates profile

  The Degree in History provides specialised professional in the knowledge of the most varied political, socio-economic, human, environmental and cultural processes, which is susceptible to give answer

Preparation of an individual work in which the students demonstrate the acquisition and management of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competences provided during the degree. It will be an introductory research work, in which sources of diverse nature can be handled, as well as carrying out bibliographic search and review tasks that allow the completion of an original project in which the ability to organise information is proved, the quality of the writing and the ability to construct one's own discourse around any of the different areas of historiographic study.
The assessment will be carried out by the tribunal and/or tutor (according to the established procedure), after an act of public defence of the Dissertation, assessing the correct completion and presentation of the dissertation and the ability to argue the questions that may be raised by the tribunal and/or tutor.