Generic skills
This page contains examples of how teaching staff can work with generic skills. You are welcome to use this information as inspiration in your own teaching.
What are generic skills?
Generic skills refer to expertise and abilities that are not so dependent on specific subject content, but are more concerned with general intellectual abilities that are trained and developed during study programmes. These could include the ability:
- to think abstractly and systematically
- to independently solve problems
- to view a phenomenon from different perspectives
- to analyse a phenomenon using a well-thought out theory or method
- to read and understand texts with advanced content
- to search for and evaluate information with the aim of answering a research question
- to formulate and argue clearly, orally and in writing.
Information skills in education
A guide with inspiration and examples, produced by the library of the Social Sciences Faculty Library.
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