Required skill:

Develop the ability to understand how people have existed, acted and thought in the always different context of the past. History involves the cultural shock of encountering and sensing the past's otherness and of learning to understand unfamiliar structures, cultures and belief systems. These forms of understanding also shed important light on the influence which the past has on the present

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Initiative, achievement orientation		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Develop the ability to read and use texts and other source materials, both critically and empathetically, while addressing questions of genre, content, perspective and purpose

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Display an appreciation of the complexity and diversity of situations, events and past mentalities. This emphasis is central to History's character as an anti-reductionist discipline fostering intellectual maturity

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational understanding		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Understand the problems inherent in the historical record itself and develop an awareness of a range of viewpoints and the way to cope with this

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational understanding		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Display appreciation of the range of problems involved in the interpretation of complex, ambiguous, conflicting and often incomplete material

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Adaptability/flexibility		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Exhibit a feeling for the limitations of knowledge and the dangers of simplistic explanations

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

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