Competencies and skills
Core competences
- Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
- Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
- Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
- Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.
- Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
- Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.
Personal skills and abilities
- Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.
- Find the key questions to be answered to solve a complex problem.
- Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
- Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
- Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and formulate judgements with detailed information.
- Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.
Other specific competences
- Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the methodology and conceptual and theoretical apparatus of History and, where appropriate, of related social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, etc.).
- Contribute, with their own original contribution, to the critical and multidisciplinary knowledge of the political, cultural and social traditions and relations between Europe and the Atlantic World.
- Be able to participate in national and international scientific debates with an original contribution in the field of History in its different aspects.
- Be able to adequately transmit, orally and in writing, the knowledge and results of historical research in specialised and highly popular forums.
- Know how to apply historical knowledge to other fields of theoretical and professional knowledge, linking historical processes to the global understanding of current societies in the Atlantic World.