Graduate Attributes
What are Graduate Attributes?
- Qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution.
- Academic abilities, personal qualities and transferable skills which all students will have the opportunity to develop as part of their university experience.
- Skills, personal qualities and understanding to be developed through your university experience that will prepare for life and work in the 21st century.
- Skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that are distinguished from the disciplinary expertise associated more traditionally with higher education, but which make a contribution to the profession.’
What are Graduate Attributes for?
Graduate attributes describe and prescribe what it means to be a graduate of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), your skills, abilities, values, attitudes and approaches, and how you learn. They develop your attitudes to knowledge, yourself, people and the world around you, and what kind of person you are. Graduate attributes develop through all your experiences at USJ and your reflection on them. They are unique to every student.
The Graduate Attributes at USJ
| INTELLECTUAL RIGOUR
(Attribute 1) |
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|---|---|
| PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
(Attribute 2) |
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| DISCIPLINARY EXPERTISE
(Attribute 3) |
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| LIFELONG LEARNING
(Attribute 4) |
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| PRINCIPLES OF ETHICS AND SERVICE TO OTHERS (Attribute 5) |
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| RESEARCH & HUMAN LITERACY, AND UNDERSTANDING
(Attribute 6) |
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Full document on the University’s Graduate Attributes is available to download here >
