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Cultural History and Anthropology
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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
The aim of the Programme – to provide knowledge and understanding of history research as a precondition of different cultural, political and anthropological discourses, to provide competences to conduct cultural history research according to history science requirements considering various theory and methodological contexts and to provide the competences required to work in dynamic professional surroundings.
Learning outcomes:
Knowledge of general European and Lithuanian cultural history development and phenomena, the main epochs, institutions, personalities and texts and understanding of the possibilities and conditions of applying knowledge.
Knowledge and understanding of sources of different epochs and cultural phenomena research, research methods and presentation of research outcomes; ability to recognise different occurrences of cultural history and analyse, interpret and present them.
Good knowledge of at least one cultural history epoch (sources, research methods, historiography, etc.), understanding of its place and importance in the context of European culture.
Knowledge of the main socio-cultural anthropology and cultural history terms, ideas and ability to recognise and apply them in the research fields of contemporary humanitarian and sociological sciences.
Knowledge and ability to apply historical anthropology methods, allowing to research everyday-life structures, microhistory objects, mentality structures, forms and expression of identity.
Understanding of different strategies of using imagery from the past in the public space, in the academic discourse, in the field of history politics and the ability to analyse them.
Understanding of the development of cultural history research and the relation between the main historical research and recording types (schools) and political, cultural, social realities of the certain epoch and outlooks.
Understanding of the political, cultural, world view, social, historical, etc. sources, which determined the features of the 21st century society’s historical memory, ability to form research problems, important in the academic and public sense, taking into consideration the mentioned features of the historical memory.
Ability to conduct research compliant with the history science requirements, which also displays the traditions of cultural history research, the knowledge of current research and critical interpretation required to determine the degree of problem investigation, to form the tasks for research and the imperative for the research’s importance.
Ability to conduct cultural history research employing diverse information on the sources base, required for the solving of a certain problem; ability to critically assess, analyse and interpret the sources; ability to create new sources required for the research, through the employing of socio-cultural and historical anthropology methods (such as conduct field work: participant observation, interviews, case studies, “thick description”, etc.).
Ability to identify, to understand, and assess cultural phenomena and present them to the society.
Understanding of the multi-perspectivity of cultural history, and an ability to foster it.
Ability to participate in the interdisciplinary research requiring knowledge of cultural history.
Ability to understand multiculturalism, assess and interpret the processes accruing in contemporary society, and the sources and conditions of these processes.
Ability to keep professional ethical commitments.
Ability to convey knowledge of cultural history and anthropology to specialist and non-specialist audiences in a reasoned way.
Ability to raise and foster the historical awareness of the society, to recognise and react to the changing expectations of the society in terms of cultural history and heritage.
Ability to learn and renew knowledge, create new ideas, and strive for quality.
Ability to work independently and in a work group, using the experience of project work.
Ability to think critically, manage information and communicate.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Teacher guided/Student centered learning approach. Lectures, seminars, excursions, projects, presentations, reading and commenting historiographical texts autonomously, discussions, practical exercises, practice, problem based study.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Examinations (written and oral), colloquial, tests, assessment of report and presentations, written papers, exercise course, practice, project.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Programme Cultural History and Anthropology is organized in modular system. The module integrates several closely related topics, presents different research and study methods. There are two types of modules: obligatory and optional. Main study field has 165 credits, one module – 15 credits.
The programme starts with four modules: Introduction to Studies; Cultural History I: Lithuania; Cultural History II: Europe; Concepts and Research Methods of Anthropology. These four modules (60 credits in total) can be also chosen by the students from other study programmes as Minor studies of Cultural History and Anthropology.
Students also study Speciality Polish Language; Speciality Russian Language, Speciality Latin Language. Bachelor Seminar; Bachelor Thesis end the studies.
15 credits go to the modules of General university education.
Practical training is integrated into general curricular of Cultural History and Anthropology programme. Obligatory practise compose part of two modules: Concepts and Research Methods of Anthropology and Bachelor Seminar. Other modules have also practical training included. The placement for practical training is organized with the help of social partners of the Faculty of History.
Specialisations:
The Programme has three specializations: deeper specialization of the chosen area; specialization in History and Anthropology of Ethnic Minorities; specialization in Cultural Tourism.
Optional courses:
Visual Culture; Modernity: Origin, Transformation and Ideas; Profiles and the GDL Culture: Past, Tradition, Heritage; History of Christianity; European Regions: Ideas, Identities and Historiographies; The Long Nineteenth Century; Sovietology and Soviet Studies; Ethnic and Territorial Conflicts in East and Central Europe; Auxiliary Sciences of History I.
Distinctive features of a study programme:
Studying Minor studies, offered at Vilnius University, student might acquire a double degree. Students can acquire Teacher‘s qualification.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
After graduation student should be ready for independent activity in the field of cultural history (in a broad sense). The bachelor degree of cultural history is useful for employment in any administration and valorisation of the cultural patrimony in its various manifestations. Graduates can work in museums, achieves, field of cultural heritage, cultural tourism, combining the knowledge of cultural history, heritage and tourism. Graduates can be employed in a field where knowledge and competences of history, heritage and law of ethnic minorities are needed as well as in other fields where history is applied.
Access to further study:
Graduates can continue their studies in the Master programmes of offered by the Faculty of History: Archaeology, History, and Heritage Conservation. They can also study in other Second Cycle studies in the humanities or social sciences.
