Required skill:

One or more religions, ancient or modern, including the origin, history and developed or present character of each.

Required competencies:

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

Required skill:

The reading, analysis and interpretation of texts, sometimes in the original languages, particularly texts that have been sacred to one or more practising communities. This study will often focus both on the historical context which generated the text(s) and on hermeneutical questions concerning its (their) meaning and application for the appropriate community of believers in the present, or for other readers today.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, achievement orientation		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Engagement with some of the major religious thinkers, prophets, teachers, ascetics, mystics, healers, or leaders through their extant work or subsequent influence.

Required competencies:

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

Required skill:

The application of a variety of critical methods of study, often adapted from those of other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, to the study of texts, practices, religious communities as social and cultural entities, or their diverse art forms.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity, listening, questioning
Personal capabilities
Organisational sensitivity		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational understanding		 Practical elements

Required skill:

The history of the particular discipline(s) covered by the programme, including the major theories, movements and thinkers.

Required competencies:

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

Required skill:

Ethics, morality, and values. All religions have certain expectations in these areas, and the student will include them in the study along with other aspects of the religion. Even if the religion is studied only historically, the values and problems for living as an adherent of the religion do not go unnoticed by the student.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity, listening, questioning
Personal capabilities
Adaptability/flexibility		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

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