UBAHSTSSTFT-2024-5-O - L-Università ta' Malta

Course Title

Bachelor of Arts in History and Social Studies

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

3 Years

180 ECTS

Mode of Study

Full-time

Information for International applicants

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History

An Advanced Level pass in History.

History

Applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' are required to sit for an interview, held on a date which will be announced in due course. Once announced, this date cannot be changed. The closing date for receipt of applications from applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' is 31 August 2024 at 2pm.

Applicants may also be required to submit a Learning Portfolio. Further information about the Portfolio will be forwarded to applicants.

Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.

Social Studies

Applicants may also be required to submit a Learning Portfolio. Further information about the Portfolio will be forwarded to applicants.

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History

The undergraduate programme in History will enrich your historic knowledge on a global scale. During the course, apart from learning about local and national history through social, economic, warfare and other perspectives, we will also provide you with a wholistic historic lens of Western, European and Non-European countries. By learning history on an academic level, you will possess a deep appreciation and a heightened sense of awareness of contemporary international and local affairs through your firm grasp of historic patterns, events and foundations. We also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ programme, as we believe that a multicultural and diversified learning experience will give you a better learning experience.

Social Studies

In the programme of study in Social Studies, we provide you with a transdisciplinary holistic approach towards the field and its means of integration in the modern world we inhabit. By taking a local and international perspective, you will learn about the interrelating and causal relationship between geography, history, political and social science and the humanities in our society. You will be integrated in a broad spectrum of fields and will acquire knowledge on areas ranging from bioethics and warfare to anthropology of migration and cultural criticism. We also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility programme for a more diverse and multicultural learning experience.

Communication and Academic Skills Programme

The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.

History

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST1010	Medieval Europe 1	6 ECTS
HST1017	Themes of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Maltese Political History	4 ECTS


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST1011	Structure and Change in Malta's Economic History	4 ECTS
HST1126	The Mediterranean in Modern Times	2 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

CHN1014	An Overview of Chinese History	4 ECTS
HST1022	The Order of St John 1530-1798: A Cultural History Approach	2 ECTS
HST1023	Introduction to Maltese Historical Demography	2 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST1019	The Craft of History	2 ECTS
HST1021	Europe in early modern times c.1450 - c.1789	4 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

SPA1018	An Introduction to Latin America	2 ECTS
SPA1019	An Introduction to Spain	2 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 credits in History
26 credits in the other area
8 credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST2003	The Renaissance and Reformation	6 ECTS
HST3018	Hospitaller Malta	4 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

HST2011	The Practice of History	2 ECTS
HST2015	Tracing Family History: Archival Depositories, Digital Resources and Genealogical Research	4 ECTS
HST2018	France and Germany: Rethinking Interrelations in the Making of Europe	4 ECTS
HST2020	Archives for Historians	2 ECTS
HST2033	The Eight-Pointed Cross of the Mediterranean	2 ECTS
HST2061	China in the World	4 ECTS
HST3020	Slavery in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean	4 ECTS
HST3025	Trans-Regional Migrations: A Short History of Migration and Mobility from Ancient to Modern Times	4 ECTS
HST3032	Medieval Island Regions	6 ECTS
HST3109	International Relations Between the World Wars	2 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST2009	Medieval Malta	6 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

CLA2060	Latin for Historians	4 ECTS
HST2010	Social History of Modern Europe	6 ECTS
HST2012	Reason and Enlightenment in Europe 1650-1789	4 ECTS
HST2025	The European Union: Historical Considerations	4 ECTS
HST2026	Global History: Theories and Applications	4 ECTS
HST2028	A History of European and World Populations	4 ECTS
HST2031	Iberia and Malta	2 ECTS
HST2032	Mediterranean Encounters between Christians and Muslims 1500-2000	4 ECTS
HST3040	Social Welfare and Public Health in Mediterranean Europe 1700-1900	6 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
26 credits in History
26 credits in the other area
8 credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST3011	European Industrialisation and Mediterranean Underdevelopment	6 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

HST2011	The Practice of History	2 ECTS
HST2014	A History of the Family and Sexual Behaviour	4 ECTS
HST2017	Anglo-Italian Relations in the Mediterranean: From the Renaissance to the Cold War	4 ECTS
HST2021	Seminars on Twentieth Century Maltese History	4 ECTS
HST2035	U.S. History: 1492 to 1939	4 ECTS
HST2040	Medieval Europe 2	6 ECTS
HST2113	Venice, the Order of St. John and Malta	2 ECTS
HST3012	Steam: A History of Industrial Power	2 ECTS
HST3015	Late Medieval Mediterranean History	6 ECTS
HST3021	European Historiography	2 ECTS
HST3023	The Forgotten Power: Persian/Iranian History in Global Perspective	4 ECTS
HST3033	War and Society in Medieval Europe	6 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

HST2005	Contemporary Mediterranean History	6 ECTS
HST3089	Synoptic Study-Unit: Maltese and Mediterranean History	6 ECTS	(NC)
HST3090	Synoptic Study-Unit: European and International History	6 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

HST2006	Malta Before and After Independence: Aspects of Maltese Social and Political History	4 ECTS
HST2019	The Transition from Medieval to Hospitaller Malta in the Sixteenth Century	2 ECTS
HST2027	Introduction to Historical Demographic Theories	4 ECTS
HST2029	Global history (c.1492 - c.1870)	4 ECTS
HST2030	Demographic and Urban Growth in the Mediterranean from the Late Middle Ages to Modern Times	4 ECTS
HST3019	History of Political Thought	2 ECTS
HST3022	Russia and Eurasia in Global Context	4 ECTS

Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 credits, of which:
28 credits in History
28 credits in the other area
4 credits in optional study-units

Requirement for award of B.A. in History and in another main area of study: 180 credits, of which:
80 credits in History
80 credits in another area
20 credits in optional study-units

Social Studies


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

SOC1012	Introducing Research Methods in the Social Sciences	4 ECTS	(NC)
SOC1014	Family Life - A Sociological Investigation	4 ECTS	(NC)
SOC1046	Urban Society and Culture	4 ECTS	(NC)
SOC1061	Sociology of Island Life	4 ECTS	(NC)


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

SOC1007	The Sociological Imaginary in Practice	2 ECTS	(NC)
SOC1058	Health, Illness and Society	4 ECTS	(NC)
SOC1060	Foundations of Sociology: Theories and Perspectives	4 ECTS	(NC)

Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 ECTS credits in Social Studies
26 ECTS credits in the other area
8 ECTS credits in optional study-units
Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

Students are required to choose study-units to the value of 26 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT3020	Introduction to Child Anthropology	2 ECTS
ENG2089	An Introduction to Cultural Criticism	2 ECTS
IRL2075	Environmental Issues in International Relations	4 ECTS
IRL2075	Environmental Issues in International Relations	4 ECTS
MCS3953	Social Media and 21st Century Communications	4 ECTS
SOC2000	Economic Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2010	Environmental Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2055	Quantitative Analysis: SPSS in Practice	4 ECTS
SOC2067	Sociology of Disability	4 ECTS
SOC2071	Intoduction to Demography	4 ECTS
SOC2079	Sociology of Space and Place	4 ECTS
SOC2125	Quantitative Research in Social Sciences	4 ECTS
SOC3031	Sociology of Politics and the State	4 ECTS
SOC3032	Sociology of the Professions	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2050	Anthropology of Borders	4 ECTS
ANT3049	Culture and Society in Modern China	4 ECTS
ECL2000	Introduction to European Union Law	4 ECTS
EST2020	Small States and the European Union	4 ECTS
IRL3041	Contemporary Warfare	4 ECTS
IRL3041	Contemporary Warfare	4 ECTS
SOC2003	Qualitative Approaches in the Social Sciences	4 ECTS
SOC2007	Theories in Sociology of Religion	4 ECTS
SOC2018	Empirical Research in Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2063	Sociology of Cyberspace	4 ECTS
SOC2073	Visual Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2121	Principles of Data Visualisation	4 ECTS
SOC2123	Theories of Social Policy	4 ECTS
SOC2124	Gender: A Sociological Exploration	4 ECTS
SOC2345	Sociology of Social Movements	4 ECTS
SOC3005	Sociology of Money	4 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
26 ECTS credits in Social Studies
26 ECTS credits in the other area
8 ECTS credits optional study-units
Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 16 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT3020	Introduction to Child Anthropology	2 ECTS
ART2038	Gender Issues in Art	2 ECTS
IRL2075	Environmental Issues in International Relations	4 ECTS
LLT3410	Discourse, Ideology and Power	4 ECTS
MSP3121	Maltese Popular Music	4 ECTS
SOC2000	Economic Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2055	Quantitative Analysis: SPSS in Practice	4 ECTS
SOC2067	Sociology of Disability	4 ECTS
SOC3028	The Sociology of Deviance	4 ECTS
SOC3030	Sociology of Sport	4 ECTS
SOC3031	Sociology of Politics and the State	4 ECTS
SOC3032	Sociology of the Professions	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

SST3001	Synoptic Study-Unit 1	6 ECTS	(NC)
SST3002	Synoptic Study-Unit 2	6 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2050	Anthropology of Borders	4 ECTS
ANT3049	Culture and Society in Modern China	4 ECTS
CST3951	Cyberculture	4 ECTS
IRL3041	Contemporary Warfare	4 ECTS
MCS3080	Online Journalism	4 ECTS
MCS3500	Consumer and Organizational Buying Behaviour	4 ECTS
SOC2010	Environmental Sociology	4 ECTS
SOC2025	Locating the Global Society	4 ECTS
SOC2044	Sociology of Law	4 ECTS
SOC2072	Demographic Processes	4 ECTS
SOC2121	Principles of Data Visualisation	4 ECTS
SOC2124	Gender: A Sociological Exploration	4 ECTS
SOC2345	Sociology of Social Movements	4 ECTS
SOC3005	Sociology of Money	4 ECTS
SOC3030	Sociology of Sport	4 ECTS

Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 ECTS credits, of which:
28 ECTS credits in Social Studies
28 ECTS credits in the other area
4 ECTS credits optional study-units

Requirement for award of B.A. Social Studies and in another area of study: 180 ECTS credits, of which:
80 ECTS credits in Social Studies
80 ECTS credits in the other area
20 ECTS credits optional study-units

This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.

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By the end of the course, you will be able to:

Conduct and carry out critical academic research in a professional academic manner necessary at an undergraduate level.
Contribute to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions, where your invaluable knowledge on the subject matter will be a necessity.
Recall key historic people and events and their respective contributions.
Express your thoughts coherently, concisely and clearly in written and oral mediums through a heightened sense of intellectual integration in the subject matter.
Understand better the contingent relationship between present and past through your awareness of current international and local affairs.

Social Studies

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

Carry out research and write academic essays through your refined use of critical thought and methodological research skills.
Participate in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions and contribute your unique knowledge on the subject matter with your heightened capacity of problem-solving, critical thought and performative skills.
Recall historical events, key figures and theoretical concepts, theories and criticisms respective of the field of study or area at hand.
Have a better understanding of human behaviour in its relation to social phenomena and institutions.
Apply your theoretical knowledge of the subject matter on contemporary issues, both local and international.

Non EU Applicants:

Fee per academic year: Eur 8,500

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As a graduate of this programme of study you will be employable, both locally and internationally, as an archivist, heritage manager, museum curator or education officer, academic researcher, policy officer, information officer, human resources officer and as a broadcast journalist. If you are interested in furthering your education, or are considering an academic profession, then we encourage you to enrol in one of our local postgraduate courses for a holistic and honed educational experience.

Social Studies

As a graduate in this programme of study you will have career opportunities, both locally and internationally, as a sociologist, historian, teacher, political scientist, market research analyst and human resources officer. If you are interested in furthering your studies, or are considering an academic career, then we encourage you to enrol in one of our local postgraduate courses.

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