‘New syllabuses’ and education of the new generation of humanities graduates in Poland

Abstract

According to the Bologna Declaration, subjects taught at universities, including humanities, should be described in standardised syllabuses. It is required that such syllabuses do not describe the knowledge that is shared but the anticipated outcomes of education and competencies to be achieved. The outcomes of education and competencies achieved by students who have received a credit should be described in a concrete and perhaps even measurable way. However, education in humanities does not render itself easily to such descriptions as the main goal of humanities education is to prepare students to be “critical interpreters of modernity, past and futurę [...] caring about high culture, responsible for its condition and status in social life”.