Courses detail

Have and understand knowledge that can provide a base or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
Students should know how to apply their acquired knowledge and ability to problem-solving in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgement from information that is incomplete or limited, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities related to applying their knowledge and judgment.
Students know how to communicate their findings, latest knowledge and reasons supporting them, to a specialised and non-specialised public in a clear and unambiguous way.
Students should have learning skills which allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

Capacity for integration and autonomy in research: Students should know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their capacity to solve problems of a historical nature in new or little known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to Ancient and Mediaeval History.
Critical reasoning and capacity for analysis, synthesis and historical interpretation between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the Ancient and Mediaeval worlds: Students should be able to integrate knowledge and to face the complexity of formulating opinions from information which, though incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities related to the application of their knowledge and judgements.
Communication skills: Students should know how to communicate both orally and in writing their conclusions, and the underlying knowledge and rationale supporting them, to a specialised and non-specialised audience in a clear, ordered and unambiguous manner.
Capacity for self-learning: Students should possess the learning skills allowing them to continue studying and investigating in History in a largely self-directed or autonomous manner.
Capacity to contribute to European cultural development through the correct transmission and critical interpretation of historical and cultural legacy from the classical and mediaeval world.
Knowledge of the main fields of current research work on the Ancient and Mediaeval Periods.
Motivation for quality and constant improvement to obtain advanced results of excellence in specialised, multidisciplinary and international historical scientific contexts.
Recognition of the diversity and interculturality in the History of Europe of the Mediterranean and Atlantic world.
Capacity for the rational and selective use of new communication technologies (Internet) and teaching innovation in learning, understanding and assimilating the teaching contents (practical and theoretical) of the Master's programme and in obtaining relevant information for research.

Acquisition of specialised training in the knowledge, methods and techniques of research in Ancient and Mediaeval History
Attaining a specific understanding of the reality of Europe in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, taking account of all kinds of contributions to this reality made by cultures arising between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
In-depth analysis and critical understanding of the role of the Iberian Peninsula in the process of the construction of Europe throughout the Ancient and Mediaeval Ages.
Demonstration of a deep understanding of the different methodological approaches and of historiographical trends related to the Ancient and Mediaeval Periods
Ability to read written historical documents, to transcribe and analyse them appropriately.
Understanding and knowing how to apply archaeology as a historical science, valuing archaeological data as an effective means to historical knowledge, appreciating Ancient and Mediaeval History, fundamentally as constitutive of our past.
Writing essays or summaries of a historiographical nature using appropriate academic language.
Knowing how to apply knowledge and the use of the rules governing the elaboration of a doctoral thesis in the humanities; that is, correct expression in the chosen language, appropriate presentation and ordering of the arguments, correct use of notes as an instrument in order to, among other things, recognise scientific debts incurred, thereby avoiding plagiarism.
Attaining an advanced level of training in the research techniques and tasks for entry into a doctoral programme in History