The Bachelor's degree provides a history curriculum structured around four major periods: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Modern Era, and the Contemporary Era. This curriculum, focused on the European and Mediterranean worlds, also extends to the Indian Ocean and other continents.

Methodology is taught (writing essays and commentaries, oral presentations, research, reading sources) as well as a modern language (English or Spanish), communication skills, and computer skills. The study of other disciplines is possible: geography, literature, social sciences, and regional languages ​​are available through the minors program.

Educational goals : 

The History degree program sets four objectives: the development of a general historical knowledge encompassing the four major periods of history, mastery of the main methods associated with this discipline (essay writing, document analysis, oral presentations, bibliographic research, reading and book reviews, etc.), a high level of oral and written French expression, and the possession of a broad general knowledge essential to today's world (foreign language, humanities). These objectives should enable students to take competitive exams (for teaching, administration, for example) which require a certain level of general knowledge, or to pursue Master's studies (research).

Training opportunities: 

The History degree is a course that offers opportunities to students in two main fields: teaching and culture and heritage.

Thanks to a focus on history, geography course choices and methodology learning present each semester, students motivated by secondary school teaching competitions will find in our Bachelor's degree a solid education that will allow them to maximize their chances of success.

Minor course units (UEs) offered from the second year (L2) onwards, specifically designed to prepare students for secondary school teaching exams, will provide access to teaching careers in secondary education. Collaboration with teachers from the National Higher Institute for Teaching and Education (INSPÉ), who are involved in this preparation, will be an advantage for these students while also creating continuity between the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Teaching, Education, and Training (MEEF).

The License includes from the 3rd^e The third year (L3) of the "History Professions" minor is designed for students aiming for careers in culture and heritage. In addition to historical and general knowledge, students will have access to courses taught in part by professionals, such as archaeologists, archivists, and paleographers.

Our Bachelor's degree will motivate many students wishing to take the various civil service exams for which a general knowledge is required.

The course is the only History degree program in the Indian Ocean.

It therefore allows students from the island or the Indian Ocean region to pursue higher education close to home and offers, in addition to general education, courses focused on the region.

Its general and local nature allows for further studies and professional opportunities within the area itself, in the rest of the national territory as well as abroad.

It allows one to acquire a general culture of a distinctly multidisciplinary nature of the classical humanities type and as such offers wide career opportunities (teaching, public service, culture-heritage and tourism sector, etc.).

The presence of courses taught by professionals (archaeology, paleography), internships, and preparation for teaching exams gives this program a professional focus. The History degree is part of a faculty that also offers related and complementary disciplines (geography, languages, social sciences, literature, information and communication) which students can integrate into their studies through minors. This flexibility and adaptability broaden students' skill sets and open up wider career prospects.

Total hours worked: 1500 hours

The Bachelor's degree aims to provide students with a general understanding of the four periods of Western history and the different continents, as well as the history of the Indian Ocean. This is complemented by historical methodology, a modern language, oral and written French communication skills, and digital literacy. The second and third years (L2 and L3) prepare students for the two main specializations within the degree: research and teaching.

The first year of the bachelor's degree (L1) covers all periods of history, Asia, the Americas and the contemporary Indian Ocean.

The second year (L2) allows students to complete the history of major historical periods, to study Africa and to begin preparing students for research or secondary teaching by means of a minor course unit per semester.

The third year of the Bachelor's degree (L3), while continuing to deepen general historical knowledge, places greater emphasis on preparing for two major orientations: preparation for the Master's degree in research on the one hand, and preparation for the CAPES (French teaching certification).

The skills acquired during this training are in line with those of the RNCP record

A mandatory 70-hour internship in the third year of the Bachelor's degree.

Registration fees are set annually by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space and are available on our institution's website: Register at the University of Reunion

We are expecting students to:

• A good command of written and oral expression
• A solid general historical knowledge resulting from the lessons learned in this subject since the 6th grade^e

It is important that the orientation towards our field be underpinned by a congruent professional project, that is to say a project where the acquisition of a general culture with a historical focus constitutes an asset if not a condition.

The candidate must have obtained good results in history-geography and in the specialization History-geography, geopolitics and political science (HGGSP) and in related subjects in particular in humanities, French, philosophy, in the first and final years.

Success in a general baccalaureate with appropriate specializations (primarily History-Geography, Geopolitics and Political Science) is strongly recommended.

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

The History degree program primarily recruits general baccalaureate graduates who have chosen the following specializations: History-geography, geopolitics and political science, humanities, literature and philosophy and possibly foreign or regional languages, literature, cultures.

The training welcomes people who have already completed a career and wish to retrain: it allows them to acquire a bac + 3 level required in many professions.

305 seats

The first-year (L1) undergraduate success rate is structurally low (40%): the history degree program (the only French history program in the Indian Ocean) is obligated to accept all new French high school graduates from the region (Réunion and Mayotte) who apply. Among these incoming students, some come from technical and vocational tracks that do not prepare them for a long general education like ours; their success rate is low, even very low. Other applications are made by default (students rejected elsewhere who do not wish to leave the department). Only a core group, estimated at 40 to 80 students, has the necessary level and motivation to succeed in the history degree.

Success rates in L2 and L3 are much higher (between 60 and 85%).

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Students are divided between two main tracks: the MEFF master's program (preparing for competitive teaching exams for primary and secondary schools) and the research master's program (in Réunion or other departments). Other students pursue studies in significantly different master's programs where history is an asset.

The sectors of activity and types of employment targeted by this training correspond to those listed in the RNCP record

A history degree, which is a general but also professionally oriented course, offers a variety of career opportunities:

-Primary and secondary education (INSPÉ of La Réunion).

-Other civil service competitions (police, gendarmerie, customs, administration, etc.).

-Careers in heritage, culture and tourism (media libraries, libraries, museums, archives etc.).

-Careers in communication (journalism, corporate and institutional communication).