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Students have shown to have and understand knowledge in an area of study based on general secondary education, and often find themselves at a level which, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the forefront of their field of study.
Students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have the abilities that tend to be demonstrated through the development and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their field of study
Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their field of study) to make judgements that include reflection on issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature
Students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
Students have developed those learning skills needed to undertake higher studies with a high degree of autonomy

Critical and creative reasoning. Students will be able to make their own assessment from a systematic reflection on the foundations supporting the ideas, opinions and actions, and on the consequences of their own actions and those of others. They will also be able to systematically develop original approaches when undertaking academic and professional tasks and projects.
Capacity for abstraction, analysis, synthesis and problem solving. Students will use concepts to identify, describe and define complex realities and know how to distinguish parts from a whole until they discover their significant principles and establish relationships with elements external to the situation in question in order to propose a solution in an effective manner.
Capacity for organising and managing information. Students will be able to effectively determine the aims, priorities, methods and controls to carry out tasks by planning activities with the time and means at their disposal, and will know how to structure, collect, process and obtain results from given information.
Teamwork and decision-making. Students will integrate and collaborate actively with other persons, areas and organisations in the pursuit of common goals, thus promoting trust, cordiality, a balanced distribution of tasks and cohesion within the group, at the same time assuming responsibility for the scope of the consequences of the chosen option.
Use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). Students will use ICTs as a tool to access sources of information, as a means of managing information, and for tasks involving the presentation of results.
Self-motivation and adaptation to the setting. Students will face their own abilities and limitations, and will strive to improve and overcome them. They will aware of the resources, both personal and those provided by the setting, and will take best advantage of them when performing the tasks assigned.
Orientation towards quality and an innovative and enterprising spirit. Students will design and apply processes aimed at achieving the best results in all their activities.
Knowledge of foreign languages. Students will be able to communicate correctly both orally and in writing in languages other than their own, especially in English, in different situations and contexts and on diverse topics.
Ethical sense and commitment. Students will identify, recognise and apply the principle of fairness and intellectual integrity in their everyday activities and relations with others.
Commitment to the principle of equality of opportunities between men and women and accessibility for persons with disabilities. Students will incorporate the perspective of gender in the setting of their professional activity. They will understand, respect, assume and be committed to the principles of equality of opportunities between men and women and of universal accessibility for people with disabilities as a personal and collective enriching component to develop harmonious coexistence with people. They will do so, on the one hand, without incurring in discrimination due to gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, social condition, political beliefs and/or race, and, on the other, by promoting awareness and recognition of diversity and multiculturality.
Awareness of and commitment to democratic values and the culture of peace. Students will identify, recognise, respect and be committed to democratic values, human rights, the environment and the culture of peace.

Critical awareness of the relationship between current events and processes and the past. Students will be able to identify and recognise the processes of continuity and change extending throughout the great periods of history so as to better understand the present, and will be able to discern the historical roots, the precedents and/or the analogies with respect to current events and processes.
Awareness of a range of historiographical perspectives in different periods and contexts. Students will recognise and understand the development both of History as a discipline and of the fundamentals and methodologies that define it. They will also recognise, analyse and understand the different ways of understanding, constructing and interpreting the past, the concepts and theories of historical and social sciences and the manner in which historigraphical debate is conformed and is related to current events and themes.
Awareness that historical debate and research are continuously being constructed.. Students will understand the complexity involved in reconstructing the past, and the problems and diverse nature of historical evidence.
Knowledge and the ability to use methods and techniques from other related human sciences (Anthropology, Geography, Philosophy, History of Art, Modern Languages, etc.). Students will recognise the role that other related sciences play in historical analysis and will be capable of applying concepts and perspectives from other human sciences.
Knowledge of the past from a diachronic and comparative viewpoint. Students will know, and will know how to analyse, the main events and processes of change and continuity in Universal, European and Spanish History from a diachronic viewpoint and in all its aspects - economic, social, political and cultural - and will understand and contextualise the reasons underlying these processes.
Ability to read, analyse and reflect critically on historiographical texts and original documents in their own language, and to transcribe, summarise and catalogue information in a relevant way
Ability to write and communicate orally in their own language with correct use of different types of historiographical writing and the terminology and techniques accepted by the profession. Students will be capable of developing and sustaining historical arguments, writing with clarity, fluency and coherence, formulating questions and providing evidence. They will do so in the different formats of academic writing, such as summary or abstract, essay, dissertation, report, review, monograph, etc. They will also be able to develop and sustain historical arguments orally expressing themselves with clarity, fluency and coherence. The overall aim of this is to make the past comprehensible to others.
Ability to use appropriately different instruments for information gathering, such as bibliographical catalogues, archive inventories and electronic references, and to handle the main types of historical sources. Students will learn and handle the methods and techniques that allow retrieval of information from the past, such as historiographical texts, primary sources - both material and visual (paintings, drawings, objects from everyday life, films, photographs, sound material, etc.) - with a view to starting historical research.
Knowledge and the ability to use methods and specific techniques required to study documents (Palaeography, Latin, etc.) and archaeological evidence from given periods. Students will develop and learn to use the procedures, disciplines and auxiliary techniques needed to obtain historical information.
Ability to use computer techniques in order to elaborate historical or history-related data. Students will be able to use ICTs as an instrument for the understanding and communication of history, as a means of storing data and documents, as a communication channel, and for learning and research.
Ability to organise historical information coherently and to transmit it in a narrative in accordance with the critical canons of the discipline. Students will be able to approach historical problems with rigour either from historical sources or from historiographical literature, or both. They will also be able to perform a basic criticism of historical or historiographical texts so that become aware that not all historical accounts are equally valid, that there are different ways to confirm this, and that historians base their works on evidence the handling of which requires maturity and intellectual integrity