Required skill:

The ability to understand how people have thought and acted in contexts other than the student's own, how beliefs, doctrines and practices have developed within particular social and cultural contexts and how religious traditions have changed over time. ( A degree of 'cultural shock' may be involved in study of the past, as well as in the encounter with the beliefs, doctrines and practices of contemporary others.)

Required competencies:

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

Required skill:

The ability to read and use texts both critically and empathetically, while addressing such questions as genre, content, context, perspective, purpose, original and potential meaning, and the effect of translation if the text is not read in the original language.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Life long learning and development, personal development, creativity, initiative		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

The appreciation of the complexity of different mentalities, social behaviours and aesthetic responses, and of the ways they have been shaped by beliefs and values, and conversely how beliefs, sacred texts and art forms have been shaped by society and politics.

Required competencies:

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

Required skill:

Sensitivity to the problems of religious language and experience, and to the issues of multiple and conflicting interpretations of language and symbols, texts and traditions. Simplistic, literalising or doctrinaire explanations are less likely to be advanced by a student of TRS.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, adaptability/flexibility		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

Required skill:

Appreciation of both the interconnectedness of and internal tensions within a system of beliefs and practices.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity
Personal capabilities
Organisational sensitivity, decisiveness		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Process operation, organisational understanding		 Practical elements

Required skill:

Basic critical and analytical skills: a recognition that statements should be tested, that evidence and arguments are subject to assessment, that the interpreter's role demands critical evaluation

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Interpersonal sensitivity, listening, questioning
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, initiative, adaptability/flexibility		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

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