Creating a New Historical Perspective: EU and the Wider World ...

manities and the Creative and Performing Disciplines. In this connection, the
members of HUMART for History have also drafted a Subject Area framework
for History, regarding levels 4 to 8 of the European Qualifications Framework
for Lifelong Learning (EQF for LLL).
During all the phases of its work, the Tuning History Subject Area Group has
benefited from its symbiotic relationship with the European History Networks,
operating under the names of CLIOH, CLIOHnet, CLIOHnet2 and most recently
CLIOHRES and CLIOHWORLD. The Subject Area Group members
are also members of the Networks and their results have been constantly discussed,
tested and perfected in consultation with the Network members and,
through them, with the broader academic community. The History Networks’
members have used Tuning results in their many countries and universities, disseminating
knowledge of Tuning tools far beyond the one hundred or so universities
which have been formal members of the Networks.
Tuning is work in progress. As can be seen from the above, work has gone on
for many years and is going forward today. For this reason the present edition of
the Guidelines does not represent a single moment in time. Rather it contains a
number of documents, produced at different stages in our work, but all of which
we believe can be useful. The bulk of the publication, paragraphs 1 to 5, consists
of a slightly revised version of the CLIOHnet-Tuning booklet entitled The
History Subject Area and published in 2005. To this, we have added the most
relevant documentation developed since then. Paragraph 6 contains the report
of the Tuning Validation Panel, asked to consider the Guidelines in 2007, and a
summary of the response by the Subject Area Group; Paragraph 7 gives the History
competence lists drawn up in the first phase of Tuning Latin America and
in Tuning Russia (RHUSTE Tempus project), as well as the key competences
formulated by the History Subject Area Group in Tuning Georgia. Paragraph
8 shows how the History competences and cycle level indicators have been reformulated
in terms of the “Dublin Descriptors”, that is in the Qualifications
Framework for the European Higher Education Area which is used by the 47
signatory countries of the Bologna declarations.
The final paragraph gives the sample Degree Profiles for first, second and third
cycle History programmes developed in the CoRe2 project and published in the
Tuning Guide to Formulating Degree Programme Profiles Including Programme
Competences and Programme Learning Outcomes. These refer to hypothetical
– indeed utopian – degree programmes, but they are the result of the concrete
examples and input from universities in 14 countries and exemplify how, in the
Tuning-CLIOHWORLD view, key programme competences and key learning
outcomes are related, and how they can be used to ensure quality and transparency,
enhancing the student experience and facilitating recognition.