Graduate attributes

The graduate attributes for the University are:

1. intellectual rigor - a commitment to excellence in all scholarly and intellectual activities, including critical judgement
2. creativity - a commitment to achieving imaginative and creative responses to intellectual, professional and social changes
3. ethical understanding and a commitment to the highest ethical standards and sensitivity to moral issues and conflicts
4. command an area of knowledge to enable a smooth transition to professional or other scholarly settings
5. lifelong learning - the ability to be responsive to change, to be reflective in practice and to be information literate in order to update one's knowledge through independent and self-directed learning
6. effective communication and social skills - the ability to communicate and collaborate in ways that are appropriate in scholarly, professional and social settings
7. cultural awareness - a global world view encompassing a cosmopolitan outlook as well as local perspective on social and cultural issues, together with an informed respect for cultural and indigenous identity.

Updated: 06 February 2011