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Developing a course curricula is a complex and difficult task since it must reflect the fundamental technical
competencies and skills, but also the soft skills that students must develop to practice a specific profession. In this sense,
Higher Education Institutions have been struggling to find strategies and incorporate methodologies into their course
curricula that will promote the balanced development of these technical and transversal competencies and skills. Therefore,
this paper describes an exploratory study on how the competencies and skills dynamic is featured in the description of the
learning outcomes of a 3-year Bachelor in Hospitality Management degree in Portugal. It analysed the forty learning
outcomes of the different subjects of the degree and framed in the Reference Framework by The Council of the European
Union. Moreover, it also analysed the application of the taxonomy of Bloom in describing the learning outcomes. The
preliminary results show that there are some explicit learning outcomes outlined in the reference framework of the European
Union but they still lack those related to soft skills development. Furthermore, the application of the taxonomy of Bloom is
adequate and fully present in the learning outcomes. These results highlight the need of reviewing the description of the
learning outcomes, mainly its alignment with the content and teaching and assessment methodologies adopted by the
different subjects.
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Bloom taxonomy Curricula Higher education Hotel management Skills
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Academic Conferences International