Auxiliary Historical Sciences
Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.
The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.
Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.
What will you learn?
This Bachelor’s degree programme prepares qualified professionals for work with various types of historical sources. The objective of the study programme is to gain detailed knowledge in particular fields of study within the group of auxiliary historical sciences (with an emphasis on diplomatics, palaeography, codicology, chronology, and sphragistics) in the context of historical sciences. Students learn basic methods of auxiliary historical sciences and become familiar with their role as a means for interpreting historical sources. They gain general knowledge of other auxiliary historical sciences (heraldry, genealogy, epigraphy, numismatics, metrology, filigranology, phaleristics, vexillology). Students gain a thorough knowledge of early Czech and general history (medieval and early modern times) and also of legal history, historical archaeology, and art history. They will be able to apply the knowledge of particular disciplines mainly in compiling textual and visual historical sources.
Practical training
The study programme includes obligatory practical trainings. Students may choose individual practical training in selected memory institutions.
Further information
https://archivnictvi.phil.muni.cz/pro-uchazece/bakalarske-studium
Career opportunities
Graduates of the study programme Auxiliary Historical Sciences have the knowledge and skills applicable in basic activities in archives, museums, galleries, and libraries, and in research institutions, especially in compiling historical collections. However, graduates from the Bachelor’s degree programme are expected to continue in the Master’s degree programme in Auxiliary Historical Sciences.
Admission requirements
This programme is taught in Czech.
The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the oral Field of Study Examination. Applicants may also be admitted based on other criteria, see Admission without the Entrance Examination. The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.
You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
Field of Study Examinations will be held from 22 April to 27 April.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.
Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
In the first part of the oral examination, applicants must answer 10 questions about history to the extent of a secondary school curriculum. The second part of the examination is a motivational interview comprised of two motivation questions. The motivational part of the exam will take into account the candidate's previous activities that demonstrate his/her interest in the field, e.g. reading field-specific literature, study visit to a selected archive, participation in the Scriptorium Brunense summer school of Auxiliary Historical Sciences, etc.
The criteria for admission for studies are the results of the oral Field of Study Examination. Applicants may also be admitted based on other criteria, see Admission without the Entrance Examination. The Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University disregards the results of SCIO National Comparative Examinations.
You can file your e-applications for studies from 1 November to 28 February.
Field of Study Examinations will be held from 22 April to 27 April.
The date and time of the examination will be stated in the electronic invitation for the examination, which will be uploaded to your e-application. The faculty will not be sending paper invitations. Applicants applying for the major study plan and minor study plan in a combined study must comply with the conditions for admission into both plans.
Learning Potential Test (TSP)
For admission for studies in this degree programme, you do not need to take the TSP.
Field of Study Examination
This examination is only in Czech. It is intended to check the applicants’ knowledge of the given field of study. It is done in the form of an online oral interview lasting up to 30 minutes.Basic description of the Field of Study Examination:
In the first part of the oral examination, applicants must answer 10 questions about history to the extent of a secondary school curriculum. The second part of the examination is a motivational interview comprised of two motivation questions. The motivational part of the exam will take into account the candidate's previous activities that demonstrate his/her interest in the field, e.g. reading field-specific literature, study visit to a selected archive, participation in the Scriptorium Brunense summer school of Auxiliary Historical Sciences, etc.
Admission without the entrance examination
You may be exempt from the entrance examination based on at least one of the following criteria:- submission of officially certified confirmations of your participation in the nationwide round of Students’ Professional Activities (SOČ) in the field of history and the History Olympiad;
- secondary school results from profile subjects of Czech (Slovak) language, history, Latin or German language, basics of social sciences.
Secondary school results may be applied for an exemption from the entrance examination by those applicants whose average grade was 1.5 or higher in each of the four profile subjects. The total average result in all subjects is not taken into consideration. Secondary school seminars are also disregarded. The average grade of each profile subject is calculated based on the results of the last four years of study in the following way: the mid-year grade is calculated from the final year, whereas the final grades are calculated from the previous three years. It is also necessary that applicants have studied each of the profile subjects for at least two years during the last four years.
Enter your grades in your e-application. Then print the grades out and let your secondary school certify them with a stamp and a signature. Upload the scan of the certified grades into your e-application. You can also upload officially certified school reports or any other documents certifying your school results.
Please upload the officially certified documents directly to your e-application in the section Application for the Exemption from the Entrance Examination no later than 28 February.
Criteria for evaluation
- Total number of points in the Field of Study Examination: 100
- Limit for successfully passing the Field of Study Examination: 50
Recommended literature
- Popelka, Miroslav. Dějepis 1 pro gymnázia a střední školy - Pravěk a starověk. Praha : SPN, 2001.
- Čornej, Petr. Dějepis 2 pro gymnázia a střední školy - Středověk a raný novověk. Praha : SPN, 2001.
- Hlavačka, Milan. Dějepis 3 pro gymnázia a střední školy - Novověk. Praha : SPN, 2001.
- Kuklík, Jan. Dějepis 4 pro gymnázia a střední školy - Nejnovější dějiny. Praha : SPN, 2002.
Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years
Study options
Single-subject studies
Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.
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Combined studies
In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes. An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Aesthetics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Catalan language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ History (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
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Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Contemporary History (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Environmental Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ European Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Human resource development and employment (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ International Relations (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Media Studies and Journalism (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Political Science (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Security and Strategic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Social Anthropology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Social Work (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies -
Auxiliary Historical Sciences (major), full-time studies
+ Sociology (minor) – Faculty of Social Studies
Auxiliary Historical Sciences as a minor degree programme
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
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Aesthetics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Ancient History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Archival Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Art History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Baltic Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Catalan Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Chinese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Classical Archaeology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Combined Art Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Computational Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Czech Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
English Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Ethnology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
French Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
General Linguistics (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
German Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
History (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Information and Library Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Italian Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Japanese Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Greek and Latin Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Modern Greek Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Museology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Musicology (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Pedagogy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Philosophy (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Polish Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Portuguese Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Russian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Social Education and Counselling (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Spanish Language and Literature (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Study of Religions (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Theatre Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Theory of Interactive Media (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Ukrainian Studies (major) – Faculty of Arts, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
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Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
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Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
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Contemporary History (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Environmental Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
European Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Human resource development and employment (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
International Relations (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Media Studies and Journalism (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Political Science (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Public and Social Policy and Human Resources (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
(Currently no open admission procedure) -
Security & Strategic Studies (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Social Anthropology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Social Work (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) -
Sociology (major) – Faculty of Social Studies, full-time studies
+ Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor)
Courses – curriculum examples
An example of your study plan:
Single-subject studies
Combined studies
Follow-up studies
After completing the Bachelor’s degree programme, it is possible to continue further studies in the Master’s degree programme in Auxiliary Historical Sciences or related historical disciplines (after satisfying the admission requirements).
Study information
| Provided by | Faculty of Arts | |
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| Type of studies | Bachelor's | |
| Mode | full-time | Yes |
| combined | No | |
| distance | No | |
| Study options | single-subject studies | Yes |
| single-subject studies with specialization | No | |
| major/minor studies | Yes | |
| Standard length of studies | 3 years | |
| Language of instruction | Czech | |
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