Graduate attributes
The graduate attributes comprise a blend of knowledge, skills and values. They are the capabilities the University seeks to enable all of its students to attain by the time they graduate.
These graduate attributes include both discipline-based and more general capabilities. First, they include the knowledge, skills and values that are characteristic of the discipline/field/profession into which students are inducted through their studies. Second, they include a range of transferable capabilities that are central to satisfying participation in contemporary society.
The University’s graduate attributes reflect its commitment to both a liberal education and professional education. The University views its educational role as one of encouraging the development of critical understandings of the world as well as more specific capabilities that are relevant to work and employment.
All of the University’s accredited programs are designed so they contribute to enabling students to develop these attributes. All courses contribute to the development of selected attributes. The contributions of programs and courses to the development of graduate attributes are reflected in program and course objectives.
The University strives to enable its graduates:
To understand
- To have relevant, discipline-based knowledge, skills and values
- To be able to apply and evaluate knowledge
To think
- To value and respect reason
- To be able to reason competently
To learn
- To be self-aware, independent learners
- To be able to collect, organise, analyse, evaluate and use information in a range of contexts
To interact
- To be able to interrelate and collaborate
- To value and respect difference and diversity
To communicate
- To speak, listen and write competently
- To be competent users of information and communication technologies
To initiate
- To be constructive and creative
- To be enterprising
To value
- To have self-respect and a sense of personal agency
- To have a sense of personal and social responsibility
- To understand and apply ethical professional practices
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