Les competències genèriques en l’educació superior: la percepció dels estudiants respecte a l’impacte que té la metodologia de Seminari de Blanquerna en l’adquisició de competències genèriques

The aim of this article is to contribute to current reflections on generic competences in higher education. Research into the acquisition of generic competences was carried out with the undergraduate social science programs (Psychology) offered by Blanquerna-Ramon Llull University. For these programs, an innovative methodology called ‘cross-course’ Seminars has been developed. Its focus is, amongst others, on developing generic competences. In the first place, generic competences are assessed in terms of whether or not they are perceived as important by final-year students, and what the main context of acquisition was. The ‘cross-course’ Seminar methodology, characterized in the present study, correlates more closely with the perception of the importance
of competences in the professional world than in other contexts, even
regular courses or competences acquired outside the university. The research aims to help achieve a better understanding of the best contexts for the acquisition of generic competences in higher education and of the importance thereof in the professional world. A methodology for the study of competence acquisition and for the characterization of a competence-based educational model is thus implicitly developed.