General competences

Specific competences

1.      INTRUMENTAL SKILLS

·         Understanding and interpreting in an appropriate and well-reasoned fashion written academic texts.

·         Being able to justify with solid arguments one's own positions, as well as to defend them in front of an audience.

2.      PERSONAL SKILLS

·         Being able to work in a group, actively contributing in the tasks and negotiating when confronted by differing opinions until reaching a consensual position.

·         Developing autonomous reasoning skills with an analytical distance to controversial topics or issues.

·         Accepting opinion diversity as a fundamental ingredient to academic life and as an integral part of contemporary society, and being able to express one's opinions within the respect to differing opinions.

·         Having consolidated habits of self-discipline, self-exigency and rigour in the elaboration of Academic tasks, as well as in its organisation and right timing.

·         3. SYSTEMIC SKILLS

·         Having a developed sense of curiosity and a wish for knowing the unknown, essential in any formative process and in any professional activity with some prospects.

·         Being able to apply, flexibly and creatively, the acquired knowledge and to apply it to new contexts and situations.

·         Being able to progress autonomously and continually in the training and learning processes.

·         1. DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE

·         Skills in interrelating Literature, History, Art, Religion, Science and Philosophy.

·         Analysing and understanding philosophical texts.

·         Writing commentaries on philosophical texts, with a coherent argumentation for the conclusions exposed.

·         Relating the thought of an author with antecedents, contraries, followers or posterior schools.

·         Recognising the main forms of thought of the Greco-Latin world.

·         2. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

·         Being able to interpret written texts, with the prospect of writing an appropriately justified personal opinion.

·         Being able to relate to each other information and documents of a varied nature and proceeding from different specialities with a transversal and integrating perspective.

3. ACADEMIC SKILLS

·         Being aware of the transversal nature of knowledge and of the convenience of transcending the borders between academic specialities, and in particular the need to get over the division between the so-called two cultures, Humanities and Science.