Licence Histoire

The primary objective of the History Licence is to train historians. It also aims to impart skills likely to prepare students for a career in a variety of fields and to provide a culture conducive to personal fulfilment and citizen engagement

The specificity of the History Licence at Aix-Marseille is its emphasis on a diversity of geographical areas: the Mediterranean first and foremost, but also the Arab and African worlds. This Bachelor's degree also offers a Franco-German orientation, as part of the binational Aix-Tübingen curriculum.

All students in their first year of study after the Baccalaureate or who are changing careers, who show a genuine interest in this discipline, curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Applicants with a baccalauréat or DAEU are eligible to apply for a licence.

Holders of another diploma: https://allsh.univ-amu.fr/fr/formation/scolarite

A good command of written and spoken French is mandatory.

The History degree offers progressive training in the historical discipline. Each semester has the same structure in three blocks of knowledge and skills (BCC). BCC1 is common to a whole class and includes methodology lessons and modern language. The BCC2 offers core history courses, the BCC3 optional courses in history and another discipline.

The BCC3 is common to the whole year and includes methodology courses and a modern language

In the first year, all students are administratively enrolled in a core curriculum that provides each and every student with a strictly equivalent, multi-disciplinary education, combining history (BCC2) with possible choices of coloration: art history/archaeology, geography, sociology and anthropology (BCC3).

In the second and third years, specialisation is implemented and the course offering divided into four pathways:

• Course 1: History, cultures and representations
• Course 2: History, territories and economies
• Course 3: History, the Mediterranean and the world
• Course 4: History, powers and societies

The courses are differentiated by their BCC3, which gives them a specificcontent: on the one hand, the historical themes favoured by the course, on the other hand another discipline of which the student takes one or two UE each semester. This favoured discipline is: history of art and archaeology (Course 1), geography (Course 2), anthropology (Course 3), sociology (Course 4).

The History degree provides access to a general historical culture that covers all four periods of history (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modern Period, Contemporary Period), which are studied in equal measure. While a majority of courses focus on the European area, non-Western cultures are also amply represented (Mediterranean, Arab and Muslim world, African world).

The historical discipline is studied in the diversity of its aspects: political, religious, cultural, economic and social history

The History degree enables students to develop various skills.

1- Ability to analyse and synthesise; students learn to :

• Gather and analyse information from different sources;
• Analyse complex situations from multiple points of view;
• Use their knowledge to identify and solve a problem;
• Propose new solutions;
• Gather and summarise relevant information;

2- Reasoning and writing skills :

• Developing a command of rhetoric and argumentative discourse, which is useful in various professions, competitions and examinations
• Development of the ability to exchange argumentative ideas;
• Ability to construct (both orally and in writing) an argumentative discourse;

3- Ability to work independently and in groups:

The very essence of university education is to seek to encourage students' autonomy without neglecting their ability to work collectively, which implies :

• The ability to pursue studies by oneself and for oneself, and thus to develop one's aptitudes throughout life;
• A taste for enquiry and intellectual curiosity;
• The ability to organise one's own work;
• A critical mind;

The ability to work as part of a team

Internships are not compulsory in the Bachelor's programme, but they are possible.

The internship agreement is drawn up with the support of the UFR administration via the AMUStage platform: https://amustage.univ-amu.fr/

This platform enables students to access and apply for internship and job offers, track their applications, request internship authorisation from their academic supervisor and draw up their internship agreement.

Tutored projects enable students to work in conditions similar to those in a company, with support from the course teachers.

• K1401 Conception et pilotage de la politique des pouvoirs publics (fr)
• K1601 Gestion de l'information et de la documentation (fr)
• K2401 Recherche en sciences de l'homme et de la société (fr)

• 321P Journalisme et communication (organisation-gestion) (fr)
• 333P Organisation et administration de services et de centres de formation (fr)

The career opportunities for a History degree are diverse:

• Teaching
• Administration
• Journalism
• Culture and heritage
• Documentation and cultural mediation
• Historical research
• Careers with an international perspective

All careers that require good command of writing and writing and synthesis skills

In addition to the courses, which are designed to provide the necessary methodological support in the face of increasing difficulty, a number of specific measures have been put in place to help students, including referral staff for each year of the Bachelor's degree, an online communication tool, tutors, etc.

The acquisition of skills common to all four study tracks and the multi-disciplinary nature of all the tracks encourage progressive orientation.

In 3rd year, all students follow a ‘Career Planning and Guidance' course to help them decide on their future direction.

In addition to compulsory language teaching for all students:

• The Franco-German integrated History studies degree (TübAix) brings together the history departments of AMU and the Karl-Eberhardt University in Tübingen (Germany). Students from Aix-Marseille and Tübingen who follow this programme spend half of their studies in the partner university. At the end of their course, they obtain a double Bachelor's degree, which offers them international career opportunities in teaching and research, culture and heritage, media and communication, administration or diplomacy. Students are selected by a bi-national jury and benefit from special supervision.

• As part of our international exchange program, History Department students can also apply for multidisciplinary exchange agreements with 40 destinations in 11 countries (Latin America, North America, Asia, Australia) and a disciplinary agreement with the History Department of the Université de Montréal (UdeM).