Graduate Attributes
From 2011, Avondale will have a new set of Graduate Attributes. They will be progressively built into all coursework programs.Learning and Teaching within a given Avondale course (the total program of study leading to an academic award) will be informed by this new set of graduate attributes and will be expressed within the Learning Outcomes for a given course.
Graduate Attributes
Avondale's objective is that its graduates:
- Are equipped to reflect creatively on the interface between Adventist Christian values and home, workplace and community.
- Possess high ethical standards including an orientation to service
- Are committed to human and environmental sustainability
- Possess excellent and relevant professional employability skills
- Enjoy a sense of individual worth
- Lead confidently in their communities and workplaces
- Possess relevant technology skills
- Possess scholarly qualities and enthusiasm for their future lives and learning
- Understand and respect cultural differences in people
- Transfer their acquired knowledge to a variety of contexts
In addition,
Avondale's objective is that its graduates from research higher degrees are:
- Autonomous researchers
- In command of a new subset of specialised knowledge
- Passionate about the discovery and advancement of knowledge
- Reflective and critical thinkers
- Insightful in the use and usefulness of research processes and research outcomes for society, the workplace and education
- Able to theorise, analyse and research a problem
- Able to communicate research outcomes in written and verbal forms adapted to suit different target audiences
- Learners in orientation and attitude
- Literate in relevant research information technology
- Active participants in a community of scholars
More information
Further information is available by contacting the Office of the Vice-President (Learning & Teaching) by email: heather.butcher@avondale.edu.au or by telephone: +61 2 4980 2310.
