STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY PROFILE - History
of Art, Architecture and Design
STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY PROFILE TEMPLATE – HISTORY OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
GENERIC EMPLOYABILITY COMPETENCIES
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Benchmark
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Develop a broad and
comparative knowledge
and understanding of
aspects of the culture of
more than one
geographical region
and/or chronological
period
Develop a more
concentrated knowledge
and understanding of
one or more periods and
places
Exhibit knowledge and
understanding of the
processes through which
artefacts are designed
and constructed in the
cultures studied
Demonstrate familiarity
with some substantive
areas of current research
in the field addressed by
the degree programme
Develop an ability to
Cognitive Skills Generic
The ability to identify,
Competencies
and solve problems,
work with information
and handle a mass of
diverse data, assess risk
and draw conclusions.
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
Technical
Ability For example,
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).
having the knowledge
and experience of
working with relevant
modern technology.
Business and /
or Organisation
Awareness An
Practical and
Professional
Elements Critical
appreciation of how
businesses operate
through having had
(preferably relevant) work
experience. Appreciation of
organisational culture,
policies and processes
evaluation of the
outcomes of
professional practice,
reflect and review own
practice participate in
and review quality
control processes and
risk management
Analysis
Judgement
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Process Operation
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Listening
Professional Expertise
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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
Acquire knowledge of the
development of the field
addressed by the degree
programme, and of its
key intellectual tools
Develop the skill of
observation: close and
systematic visual
examination, informed by
appropriate knowledge of
materials, techniques
and cultural contexts
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
Set the artefacts studied
within appropriate
historical, intellectual,
cultural and institutional
contexts
Draw upon personal
responses to artefacts
while recognising how
these should be
distinguished from other
relevant meanings
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Judgement
Attention to Detail
Questioning
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Process Operation
Written Communication
Interpersonal Sensitivity
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Interpersonal Sensitivity
Creativity
Organisational Sensitivity
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Professional Expertise
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Develop arguments
concerning production
processes, and
concerning formal and
functional ambitions and
effects from close
observation of artefacts
Relate the processes of
making artefacts to their
cultural functions
Understand the role of
artefacts as carriers of
meaning and value
Identify and analyse the
development of and
interrelation between
forms and genres
Use appropriate
methodologies for
locating, assessing and
interpreting primary
sources
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
Produce logical and
structured narratives and
arguments supported by
relevant evidence
Marshal and appraise
critically other people's
arguments and to argue
on the basis of familiarity
both with relevant
evidence and with
specialist literature
Analyse and break down
an argument, a task or a
body of evidence, and
deal effectively with its
of Art, Architecture and Design
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Technical Knowledge
Process Operation
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Technical Knowledge
Process Operation
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Interpersonal Sensitivity
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
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component parts
Bring evidence or ideas
of different sorts or from
different sources
together in a productive
way
Identify and present the
key elements of an
argument or a
demonstration
Develop the ability to
discriminate between
alternative arguments
and approaches
Apply knowledge and
experience so as to
make appropriate
decisions in complex and
incompletely charted
contexts
Exhibit the capacity for
critical, effective and
testable information
retrieval and organisation
Design and carry out a
research project with
limited tutorial guidance
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
Listen effectively, and
thus to participate
constructively in
discussion
of Art, Architecture and Design
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Achievement Orientation
Initiative
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Initiative
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Written Communication
Planning and Organising
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Interpersonal; Sensitivity
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Technical Knowledge
Technical Application
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
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Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Technical Knowledge
Technical Application
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
STUDENT EMPLOYABILITY PROFILE - History
of Art, Architecture and Design
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
Demonstrate the ability
to be open and receptive
to new things and ideas
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Identify the merits of
unfamiliar arguments or
cultural artefacts and the
merits or shortcomings of
familiar ones
Appreciate and evaluate
divergent points of view
and to communicate their
qualities
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
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
Develop an independent
argument that is
informed by but not
dependent on authorities
in the subject area
Define own brief, and
formulate arguments that
effectively structure
relevant information
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Achievement Orientation
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Achievement Orientation
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Work constructively and
Written Communication
Planning and Organising
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Creativity
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Adaptability/Flexibility
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Teamwork/Working with
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Technical Knowledge
Technical Application
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
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productively in groups
Work to briefs and
deadlines, including
managing concurrent
projects
Take responsibility for
one's own work
Reflect on own learning,
and to make constructive
use of feedback
Take shared
responsibility for one's
own programme of
studies.
Develop a broad and
comparative knowledge
and understanding of the
visual and material
culture of more than one
geographical region
and/or chronological
period
Develop a more
concentrated and
systematic knowledge of
one or more of the above
Develop knowledge and
understanding of the
processes through which
artefacts are constructed
in the cultures studied
Become familiar with
some substantive areas
of current research in the
field addressed by the
degree programme
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
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Others
Planning and Organising
Achievement Orientation
Initiative
Personal Development
Listening
Questioning
Achievement Orientation
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Process Operation
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
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knowledge
Display an understanding
of the development of the
subject, and of its key
intellectual tools.
Exhibit the ability to use
critical skills of visual
observation, description
and analysis
Locate artefacts within
appropriate historical,
intellectual, cultural or
institutional contexts
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
Evaluate a range of
different methodologies
and approaches within
the subject
Produce well structured
and relevant arguments
supported by visual,
textual or other evidence
as appropriate
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
Developed skills of
analysis, synthesis and
effective summary
Be able to discriminate
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Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Process Operation
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Technical Application
Achievement Orientation
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
Professional Expertise
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between alternative
arguments and
approaches
Apply knowledge and
experience resourcefully
in complex and openended contexts
Research - the capacity
for critical, effective and
verifiable information
retrieval and organisation
relevant to a given task
Communicate ideas and
arguments cogently and
effectively in written
spoken or other form,
with appropriate use of
visual aids
Listen effectively and so
to learn from and
participate constructively
in discussion
Work constructively and
productively in groups
Display the ability to work
diligently, to fulfil briefs
and deadlines, and to
take responsibility for
one's own work
Make effective use of
information technology
for research and
communication
Update own knowledge
and skills, seek and use
feedback, reflect on, and
improve performance
of Art, Architecture and Design
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Planning and Organising
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Planning and Organising
Professional Expertise
Analysis
Judgement
Attention to Detail
Written Communication
Achievement Orientation
Listening
Questioning
Initiative
Influencing
Technical Application
Professional Expertise
Listening
Questioning
Teamwork
Working with Others
Planning and Organising
Achievement Orientation
Technical Knowledge
Technical Application
Personal Development
Life Long Learning and
Development
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Professional Expertise