STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY PROFILE - History of Art, Architecture and Design

STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY PROFILE TEMPLATE – HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

GENERIC EMPLOYABILITY COMPETENCIES

Subject Benchmark Indicators
© The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education / Cognitive Skills The ability to identify, and solve problems, work with information and handle a mass of diverse data, assess risk and draw conclusions. / Generic Competencies High level and transferable key skills such as the ability to work with others in a team, communicate, persuade and have interpersonal sensitivity. / Personal Capabilities The ability and desire to learn for oneself and improve ones self-awareness, emotional intelligence and performance. To be a self-starter (creativity, decisiveness, initiative) and to finish the job (flexibility, adaptability, tolerance to stress). / Technical Ability For example, having the knowledge and experience of working with relevant modern technology. / Business and / or Organisation Awareness An appreciation of how businesses operate through having had (preferably relevant) work experience. Appreciation of organisational culture, policies and processes / Practical and Professional Elements Critical evaluation of the outcomes of professional practice, reflect and review own practice participate in and review quality control processes and risk management
Develop a broad and comparative knowledge and understanding of aspects of the culture of more than one geographical region and/or chronological period / Analysis
Judgement / Professional Expertise
Develop a more concentrated knowledge and understanding of one or more periods and places / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Exhibit knowledge and understanding of the processes through which artefacts are designed and constructed in the cultures studied / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Process Operation / Professional Expertise
Demonstrate familiarity with some substantive areas of current research in the field addressed by the degree programme / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Develop an ability to engage with the concepts, values and debates that inform study and practice in the field addressed by the degree programme, including an awareness of the limitations and partiality of all historical knowledge / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning / Professional Expertise
Acquire knowledge of the development of the field addressed by the degree programme, and of its key intellectual tools / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Develop the skill of observation: close and systematic visual examination, informed by appropriate knowledge of materials, techniques and cultural contexts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning / Process Operation / Professional Expertise
Demonstrate the ability to describe and record g such artefacts with clarity and precision, using ordinary and specialist language as appropriate to the topic and the intended audience, and with consideration for the differences between the visual and the verbal / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Written Communication
Interpersonal Sensitivity / Professional Expertise
Set the artefacts studied within appropriate historical, intellectual, cultural and institutional contexts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Draw upon personal responses to artefacts while recognising how these should be distinguished from other relevant meanings / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Interpersonal Sensitivity / Creativity / Organisational Sensitivity / Professional Expertise
Develop arguments concerning production processes, and concerning formal and functional ambitions and effects from close observation of artefacts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Technical Knowledge / Process Operation / Professional Expertise
Relate the processes of making artefacts to their cultural functions / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Understand the role of artefacts as carriers of meaning and value / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Identify and analyse the development of and interrelation between forms and genres / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Use appropriate methodologies for locating, assessing and interpreting primary sources / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Technical Knowledge / Process Operation
Select relevant evidence from the wide range of types of evidence used in the subject area, and to apply it to the examination of historical issues and problems / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Produce logical and structured narratives and arguments supported by relevant evidence / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Marshal and appraise critically other people's arguments and to argue on the basis of familiarity both with relevant evidence and with specialist literature / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Interpersonal Sensitivity / Listening
Questioning
Initiative / Professional Expertise
Analyse and break down an argument, a task or a body of evidence, and deal effectively with its component parts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Bring evidence or ideas of different sorts or from different sources together in a productive way / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Achievement Orientation
Initiative / Professional Expertise
Identify and present the key elements of an argument or a demonstration / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Develop the ability to discriminate between alternative arguments and approaches / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative / Professional Expertise
Apply knowledge and experience so as to make appropriate decisions in complex and incompletely charted contexts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity / Professional Expertise
Exhibit the capacity for critical, effective and testable information retrieval and organisation / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Initiative / Technical Knowledge
Technical Application / Professional Expertise
Design and carry out a research project with limited tutorial guidance / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Written Communication
Planning and Organising / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity / Professional Expertise
Communicate information, arguments and ideas cogently and effectively within a range of discourses as appropriate to particular audiences, and in written, spoken or other form using appropriate visual aids and IT resources / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Interpersonal; Sensitivity / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity / Technical Knowledge
Technical Application / Professional Expertise
Listen effectively, and thus to participate constructively in discussion / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Professional Expertise
Demonstrate particular abilities in the deployment of visual material in conjunction with written, oral and other forms of communication, such as illustrated essays and seminars, slide, moving image or multimedia presentations / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Written Communication
Planning and Organising / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity / Technical Knowledge
Technical Application / Professional Expertise
Demonstrate the ability to be open and receptive to new things and ideas / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Adaptability/Flexibility
Identify the merits of unfamiliar arguments or cultural artefacts and the merits or shortcomings of familiar ones / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Professional Expertise
Appreciate and evaluate divergent points of view and to communicate their qualities / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Professional Expertise
Undertake and complete set tasks, whether routine and familiar or requiring the acquisition and application of new skills / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Achievement Orientation / Professional Expertise
Develop an independent argument that is informed by but not dependent on authorities in the subject area / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Define own brief, and formulate arguments that effectively structure relevant information / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Achievement Orientation Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Professional Expertise
Work constructively and productively in groups / Teamwork/Working with Others
Work to briefs and deadlines, including managing concurrent projects / Planning and Organising
Take responsibility for one's own work / Achievement Orientation
Initiative
Reflect on own learning, and to make constructive use of feedback / Personal Development
Listening
Questioning
Take shared responsibility for one's own programme of studies. / Achievement Orientation
Develop a broad and comparative knowledge and understanding of the visual and material culture of more than one geographical region and/or chronological period / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Develop a more concentrated and systematic knowledge of one or more of the above / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Develop knowledge and understanding of the processes through which artefacts are constructed in the cultures studied / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Process Operation / Professional Expertise
Become familiar with some substantive areas of current research in the field addressed by the degree programme / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Engage with the concepts, values and debates that inform study and research in the subject area, including an awareness of the limited and partial nature of all historical knowledge / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Display an understanding of the development of the subject, and of its key intellectual tools. / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Exhibit the ability to use critical skills of visual observation, description and analysis / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Locate artefacts within appropriate historical, intellectual, cultural or institutional contexts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Locate and evaluate evidence from a wide range of primary and secondary sources (visual, oral or textual) and interpret it in relation to relevant issues and enquiries / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Evaluate a range of different methodologies and approaches within the subject / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Process Operation / Professional Expertise
Produce well structured and relevant arguments supported by visual, textual or other evidence as appropriate / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Technical Application / Professional Expertise
Develop the ability to balance and present alternative points of view held within the subject, to use unfamiliar arguments and artefacts constructively, and to engage critically with familiar or established ideas / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Achievement Orientation Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Professional Expertise
Developed skills of analysis, synthesis and effective summary / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Be able to discriminate between alternative arguments and approaches / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Professional Expertise
Apply knowledge and experience resourcefully in complex and open-ended contexts / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Planning and Organising / Professional Expertise
Research - the capacity for critical, effective and verifiable information retrieval and organisation relevant to a given task / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Planning and Organising / Professional Expertise
Communicate ideas and arguments cogently and effectively in written spoken or other form, with appropriate use of visual aids / Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail / Written Communication / Achievement Orientation Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing / Technical Application / Professional Expertise
Listen effectively and so to learn from and participate constructively in discussion / Listening
Questioning
Work constructively and productively in groups / Teamwork
Working with Others
Display the ability to work diligently, to fulfil briefs and deadlines, and to take responsibility for one's own work / Planning and Organising / Achievement Orientation
Make effective use of information technology for research and communication / Technical Knowledge
Technical Application
Update own knowledge and skills, seek and use feedback, reflect on, and improve performance / Personal Development
Life Long Learning and Development / Professional Expertise

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