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

- are able to write and speak according to the various communication registers (informal,
formal, scientific).
- are able (1) to think in scientific terms, pose problems, gather data, analyse it
and propose findings; (2) to work autonomously, organise complex efforts over a
period of time, producing the required result on schedule.
Qualification that signify completion of the second cycle in history are awarded
to students who:
- Have demonstrated (1) broad knowledge and understanding of historical processes
and events, current debates and research orientations regarding them; (2)
knowledge of the principal theoretical approaches to history; (3) detailed knowledge
and understanding of a particular period/thematic domain and the methodologies
and historiographical debates regarding it.
- are able (1) to retrieve, understand and place archival material, historiographical
contributions and debates in their context; (2) to use of appropriate terminology
and modes of expression of the discipline in oral and written form in one’s
own language and in a second language; (3) is able to use the methodological
and practical tools of History and other sciences as needed; (4) is able to work in
a team to complete specific tasks relating to the discipline (gathering and treating
data, developing analyses, presenting results); (5) is able to participate actively
and constructively in group work, outside one’s own speciality.
- are able (1) to formulate a problem, address it with appropriate information
and methodology, to arrive at a valid conclusion; (2) adhere to the standards
required for scientific research and publication including critical awareness and
intellectual honesty; (3) is able to organise complex efforts in an imaginative
way, integrating the results of diverse studies and analyses and producing the
required product according to the established deadlines.
- are able to communicate their conclusions, orally an in writing, according to the
various communication registers (informal, formal, scientific).
- are able to plan, carry out, complete and defend an individual research-based
contribution to historiographical knowledge bearing on a significant problem.
A further challenge and opportunity has been created by the EQF, the European
Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning. In this case that indications of
level area are cumulative, as were the History Cycle Level Descriptors formulated
in 2002; in the case of the EQF with the ambition of being able to comprise all
phases of education, from that for the very young up to that for mature or retired
learners. A Tuning-CLIOHWORLD working group has addressed this challenge
in the framework of the HUMART project. Here below we present a draft of a
History Qualifications Framework drawn up according to the EQF. It will be the
object of consultation, modification and validation in the coming months.
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