Solid language skills (general reading and writing skills, and listening and speaking in an academic context).
The ability to work towards goals.
Critical and reasoning skills, the ability to relate concepts and extrapolate from these, and summary and analytical skills.
Memory, reading culture and personal interest in intellectual development.
Interest in language and literature.
Knowledge of other foreign languages and basic IT skills.
Interest in learning about Semitic languages and cultures of the Near and Middle East, Arab, Islamic, Judaic and biblical cultures, and the legacy of al-Andalus and Sephardic Judaism.