Faculty of History, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi

The Dean’s messageHistory and objectives Professors of the Faculty

Academic programs The course offer International relations

The Dean’s message

Today, The Faculty of History at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi is proud of an illustrious intellectual past and justly hopeful for the future. By continuing landmark history-writing traditions – with renowned representatives, such as Mihail Kogălniceanu, Alexandru D. Xenopol, Nicolae Iorga, Gheorghe I. Brătianu – The Faculty became one of the emblematic establishments in the field nationwide. The quality of the teaching personnel has ensured exception training for graduates. Teachers and students alike have proven solidarity, professionalism, and seriousness in challenging moments, thus overcoming the hard times.
The Faculty of History presents a guarantee of thorough study, meant to provide the students with professional achievements and beautiful personal memories.

DEAN,
Prof. Lucreţiu-Ion Bîrliba, PhD

History and objectives

The Faculty of History trains highly qualified specialists for the education and historical research in Romania. The graduates of The Faculty of History may embrace various careers: teachers (in the school system or higher education), researchers, museum curators, archaeologists, archivists, journalists, librarians, political analysts, public clerks (in national and international establishments).
History is among the oldest subjects in the higher education of the Romanian Principalities. In Moldavia, it was included in the syllabus of the Socola Seminar (Iaşi) as early as 1808. After the inauguration of Iaşi University (on October 26, 1860), History was taught for several decades within the Faculties of Philosophy and Letters. Following the Second World War, it became a section within the Faculty of History – Geography, History-Philology, Philology-History-Philosophy, History-Philosophy. Eventually, it became distinct in January 1990 as The Faculty of History.
The main research fields are World History (a field carrying on a tradition dating to the foundation of the Faculty); Prehistory and Ancient Archaeology (in this field, mostly at archaeological sites, it has developed a genuine school with national and international recognition); editing the sources of the Romanian middle ages; historical genealogy; political history of the Romanian Principalities/Romania; history of international relations and totalitarian regimes. At the same time, in recent years, new directions have been outlined, in agreement with the latest historiographical evolutions: social and mental collective history, history of culture and ideas, urban history, historical anthropology, social history of the Romanian diplomacy, propaganda, etc.

Professors of the Faculty

Ancient History and Archaeology
Prof. Lucreţiu-Ion Bîrliba, PhD
Prof. Nelu Zugravu, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Vasile Cotiugă, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Neculai Bolohan, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Roxana-Gabriela Curcă, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Iulian Moga, PhD

Medieval History
Prof. Alexandru-Florin Platon, PhD
Prof. Maria Magdalena Gorovei (Székely), PhD
Prof. Petronel Zahariuc, PhD
Prof. Laurenţiu Rădvan, PhD
Prof. Liviu Pilat, PhD
Lecturer Gheorghe Iutiş, PhD
Lecturer Ioan-Augustin Guriţă, PhD

Modern History
Assoc. Prof. Nelu-Cristian Ploscaru, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Claudiu-Lucian Topor, PhD
Lecturer Gabriel Leanca, PhD
Lecturer Adrian-Bogdan Ceobanu, PhD
Lecturer Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea, PhD
Teach. Assist. Cosmin Mihuţ

Contemporary History (20th Century History)
Prof. Lucian Leuştean, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Ovidiu-Ştefan Buruiană, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Ionuţ Nistor, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Daniel Lazăr, PhD
Assoc. Prof. Adrian Viţalaru, PhD
Lecturer Cristina Preutu, PhD

Academic programs

Levels of study

Bachelor’s Studies (3 years)
Specialties: History
Duration of studies: 6 semesters
Total number of credits: 180
Title obtained: bachelor’s degree in History

Master studies (2 years)
Duration of studies: 4 semesters
Title obtained: master graduate
Master programmes:
• Archaeology, Civilisation and Ancient Art
• Archival Studies
• Institutions of Power and Ideologies in Europe
• Cultural Heritage and Tourism
• International Relations, Institutions and Organisations

Doctoral studies
Duration of studies: three years
Title obtained: PhD in History
Within the Doctoral School (Doctoral studies), the candidates – selected through a contest – will follow:
• the advanced university training programmes (a semester)
• the scientific research programmes (five semesters)

The course offer

Bachelor’s studies, History

- First year, first semester
  Compulsory courses
  Prehistoric and Ancient Civilisations in the Romanian Territory
  The Middle East and the Mediterranean World in Antiquity
  General Prehistory
  Introduction to History
  Information and Communication Technology
  Optional courses
  Foreign language (English, French, German)
- First year, second semester
  Compulsory courses
  State, Society and Mentalities in the Romanian Area (14^th-18^th centuries)
  Medieval Europe (5^th-16^th centuries). Society, Institutions, Collective Mentalities
  Introduction to Historiography
  Introduction to Archaeology
  Optional courses
  Foreign language (English, French, German)
- Second year, first semester
  Compulsory courses
  Modern Romanian History
  Modern European History
  The Study of Historical Sources. Special Sciences
  Optional courses
  Foreign languages (English, French, German)
  Introduction to Archival Studies and Romanian– Cyrillic Palaeography / The Origins of the First World War
  Introduction to Museology / History of Byzantium
  Supplementary courses
  Jewish History and Civilisation
- Second year, second semester
  Compulsory courses
  Romania in the 20^th Century. Politics and Society
  Europe and the World in the 20^th Century. Democracy and Totalitarianism
  Ethics and Academic Integrity
  Optional courses
  Introduction to Greek-Latin Epigraphy / The Emergence of Nations
  Latin Language / Greek Language / Old Slavonic Language
  Supplementary courses
  Jewish History and Civilisation
- Third year, first semester
  Compulsory courses
  History of the Idea of Europe
  History of European Art
  Current Trends and Tendencies in Historiography
  Optional courses
  History of Political Ideas in Medieval West / Policy and Culture in Romania in the Interwar Period
  Special Course and Seminar on Ancient World History / Special Course and Seminar on Medieval World History / Special Course and Seminar on Modern World History / Special Course and Seminar on Contemporary World History
  Special Course and Seminar on ancient Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Medieval Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Modern Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Contemporary Romanian History
- Third year, second semester
  Compulsory courses
  Historical Cultures and Social Usages of the Past in the 18^th-21^st Centuries: Emergence, Typology, Evolution
  History of European Integration
  Optional courses
  Special Course and Seminar on Ancient World History / Special Course and Seminar on Medieval World History / Special Course and Seminar on Modern World History / Special Course and Seminar on Contemporary World History
  Special Course and Seminar on Ancient Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Medieval Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Modern Romanian History / Special Course and Seminar on Contemporary Romanian History
  Historical Geography / History of the Church in the Romanian Principalities
  Historical Demography / Contemporary South-Eastern Europe

Master studies

First year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Cultural Anthropology
Language of Greek and Latin Inscriptions
Archaeology in the Period of the Migrations
Civilisation and Art of Late Antiquity
Ethics and Academic Integrity

First year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Art, Civilisation and Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Art, Civilisation and Archaeology of Ancient Rome
Theory and Practice in Contemporary Archaeology
Introduction to Latin Epigraphy

Second year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Oracles, Games and Parties in Antiquity
Preventive and Contractual archaeology
GIS Applications in Archaeology
Underwater Archaeology
Specialty Traineeship

Second year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental Archaeology
The Aegean and Balkan space in Prehistory and Protohistory
Religion and Urbanism in the Circumpontic Area
Exchange Systems in Prehistory and Protohistory

First year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Medieval and Premodern Institutions in the European and Romanian Area
Special Sciences of History
Archival Legislation
Ethics and Academic Integrity
Optional courses
Latin Language / Old Slavonic Language

First year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Theory and Practice in the Romanian Archives
Management of Contemporary Archives
Specialty Traineeship
Optional courses
Latin Palaeography / Old Slavonic Palaeography

Second year, first semester
Compulsory courses
State and Government States in the European and Romanian Area during the Modern Period
Archives from the Organic Statute to 1947
Romanian-Cyrillic Palaeography
Specialty Traineeship

Second year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Forms of Government and Institutional Structures in Europe in the Interwar Period
Archives during the Communist Regime
The European Union – Archives and Libraries

First year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Ancient Fundaments of Political Thinking
Political Institutions and Ideology of Power in Byzantium
Forms of Power Legitimation and Representations in Medieval Europe: Conceptions, Myths, Rituals and Symbols
Power Forms and Expressions in the Romanian Middle Ages
Ethics and Academic Integrity

First year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Romanian Medieval Institutions (14th-18th Centuries)
Urban Institutions in Medieval and Premodern Europe
Power Structures in the Romanian Middle Ages
Monarchic Absolutism in Europe: Legitimation Representations, Forms and Conceptions

Second year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Constitutional Regimes and Election Systems in the 19th Century
European and Romanian Institutional Genesis and Political Culture
Social and Political Elites (19th Century)
Political Doctrines and Parties in the 19th -20th Centuries
Specialty Traineeship

Second year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Democratic Political Regimes. Institutional Mechanisms, Forms of Political Representation and Civic Association
Totalitarian Political Regimes. Institutional Ideologies and Structures
Euro-Atlantic Organisations and Institutions (1944–1991)
Geopolitics and International Institutions after the Cold War

First year, first semester
Compulsory courses
National Cultural Heritage: How It was Created, Harnessed, Secured
World Art History
Greek and Roman Ancient Cultural Heritage
Archaeological Itineraries: Sites, Monuments, Archaeological Complexes
Ethics and Academic Integrity

First year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Romanian Ethnography
Indoors Itineraries: Museums, Exhibitions, Storehouses
Secular and Ecclesiastic Monuments of Architecture in Western Europe (8th-16th Centuries)
Renaissance Art and civilisation

Second year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Tourism, Nature, Society
Christian Pilgrimage. Itineraries and Spiritual Sojourns
Memory of Places in the Romanian Middle Ages
Communication and Public Relations
Specialty Traineeship

Second year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Economy, Marketing and Management of Tourism
Civil Architecture and Private Space in Moldavia
Heritage and Founding Rights
Places of Memory in the Romanian Middle Ages

First year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Introduction to the Study of International Relations
Modern State System (1648-1815)
Eastern Europe in the Political International Relations during the 17th-18th Centuries
European Order (1815-1878)
Triple Alliance and Entente (1879-1914). The Origins of the Great War
Ethics and Academic Integrity

First year, second semester
Compulsory courses
The Collective Security System (1919-1939). The Origins of the Second World War
Organisation of Peace after the Second World War. The Cold War
The World Order after 1989
International Relations and Matrimonial Strategies in 19th Century
The French-Speaking World. Culture and International Policies

Second year, first semester
Compulsory courses
Diplomacy. Rules, Principles, Institutions, Schools
International Relations. History and Political Science
Political Imaginary and the Origins of the Ethnic and National Identities in Europe (14th-19th Centuries)
From the League of Nations to the United Nations Organisation
European Construction – Political, Social and Cultural Developments
Specialty Traineeship

Second year, second semester
Compulsory courses
Minorities and Geopolitics in the Balkans in the 20th Century
Notions of Law and International Organisations
International Economic and Financial Institutions and Organisations
The Jewish Issue in International Relations (19th-20th centuries)
Media and International Relations

International relations

The Faculty established and developed a series of scientific and teaching relations with several foreign universities, reified in mobilities for teachers and students, as well as through joint research programmes, with:

- - Dipartimento di Studi Classici e Cristiani de la Universita degli Studi “Aldo Moro” di Bari. The collaboration began in 1995 and reified in annual Socrates (LLP- Erasmus) mobilities for teachers and students in Iaşi and Bari, the annual participation in the Summer School conducted in Centro di Studi Micaelici e Garganici of Monte Sant’Angelo for master and Doctoral students at Centro di Spiritualita “Sanguis Christi” in Trani for Doctoral students, the biannual organisation of a scientific colloquium focusing on Classic and Late Antiquity. It also includes the editing of the journal Classica et Christiana, the joint tutoring of PhD theses, the publication of studies and books.
  - The Prehistory Service of the Liège University (Belgium), led by Professor Marcel Otte – the collaboration thus far has focused on the mutual exchanges of teaching staff and students.
  - The Maison des Sciences Humaines attached to the University of Angers (France). The relations – established in 1995 and formally certified through a cooperation agreement between the Faculty of History in Iaşi and the UFR Lettres, Langues et Sciences Humaines in Angers – are based on a joint didactic and scientific collaboration programme, active from 1998.
  - The University of Konstanz – the Department of History, Sociology and Educational Sciences, with which we have collaborated in the master studies for Eastern Europe. The collaboration includes three directions: Slavic Culture and Literature, the History of Eastern Europe, Political and Administrative Sciences. The programme features information concerning Eastern Europe in fields such as Literature, Communication Sciences, History and Politics.

Within the LLP Erasmus Programme, the Faculty has collaboration agreements with:

Université de Liège, South-west University “Neofit Rilski”, St. Cyril And St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Freie Universität Berlin, Helmut Schimdt University, University of Konstanz, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Universität Trier, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Université d’Angers, Université de Bourgogne, Université de Nantes, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université de Rouen, University of Crete, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Macedonia, University of Zagreb, Eötvös Lorand University, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Università Europea di Roma, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Università degli Studi di Torino, University of Groningen, Utrecht University, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, University in Warsaw, Universidade de Lisboa, Universidade do Porto, University of Ljubljana, Firat University, Anadolu University, Gaziantep University, Suleyman Demirel University, Kilis 7 Aralik University.