Mobility Studies
Italy, Padua
| Study location | Italy, Padua |
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| Type | Master's degree, full-time |
| Nominal duration | 2 years (120 ECTS) |
| Study language | English |
| Awards | (Master of Arts in Historical Sciences) |
| Course code | SU3042/001PD/2025 |
| Tuition fee | €2,642 per year For further information please visit: www.unipd.it/en/tuition-fees |
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| Application fee | €30 one-time This fee is non-refundable. |
| Deposit | €205 one-time In order to accept your place at the University of Padua, the payment of the admission fee is required. This fee is non-refundable. |
| Entry qualification | Bachelor diploma (or equivalent)
The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English / Italian. You can often get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original. You must take the original entry qualification documents with you when you finally go to the university. If you are admitted to the degree course, you will have to submit other documents including original and translated/legalised copies of your previous qualifications, etc. No legalised documents are required at application stage. |
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| Language requirements | English B2 level (CEFR) or equivalent Please check out this link for the full list of accepted certificates, minimum scores and exemptions |
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Overview
Today mobility is a keyword related to migration, transport, mass tourism, global trade, the circulation of digital information and their impact on urban transformations. Beyond everyday perception, mobility is also a new paradigm in the Social Sciences and Humanities, that looks beyond immobile socio-economic structures and fixed cultural identities, in order to provide a new understanding of past and present societies.
The two-year MA programme in Mobility Studies at the University of Padua is driven by the assumption that the Humanities can play a crucial role in facing and understanding mobility in present society. This is something different than offering a focus uniquely on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in given historical and geographical frameworks. The MA program in Mobility Studies offers a broader approach. It aims at providing students with a selection of specific tools in historical, geographical, anthropological and philological studies, in order to challenge the traditional understanding of human actions, in time and space. “Challenging forces” such as colonization, migration, exile, tourism are seen as factors that shape cultural identities and not only as phenomena of contamination of given cultures. Students will be immersed in an engaging process through which people, texts, images, artifacts, commodities, ideas are moved, translated, transformed, adapted and negotiated by different social actors, sometime in distant spatial contexts, in the past and in the present. The global and local scenarios call for new experts, trained in historical and cultural studies, but ready for political and social action today.
Programme structure
General Modules
Migrations in World History
Transport History
Ideas and Cultures in Motion
Communication and Media in History
Mobile Narratives in Historical Context
History and Social Sciences
Work, migration and globalization
Sociology of Ideas and Intellectuals
History of Tourism
Demography and Migration
Space, Place and Mobility
Cultural Encounters
Museum Collections Heritage
Theory and methods
Archives and Libraries on the move
Literature, Law and Social Sciences
English as a Global Language
Texts on the move
Digital Philology
European and Global Citizenship
Gender eu politics and globalization
Economic globalization and human rights
Work, Migration and Globalisation
Politics and Institutions on the Move
Laboratories
Quantitative approaches to mobility research
Public Digital History
Others
Academic speaking and writing
Internship
Final Project
The programme is a study track – completely held in English – of the Master’s degree programme in Scienze storiche
A limited number of selected students may be eligible for the double degree programme with Lancaster University (UK). Students completing the double degree programme will be awarded a Master’s degree in Historical Sciences – curriculum Mobility Studies from the University of Padua and either an MA in Sociology or in English Literary Studies from Lancaster University.
Career opportunities
Graduates work as:
1. State and local government agencies;
2. International organisations;
3. NGOs;
4. Think tanks;
5. Cultural tourism;
6. Heritage digital industries;
7. Media aand communications;
8. Academic researchers;
9. Galleries, museums, archives, libraries