Griffith University prepares influential graduates to be:

  1. Knowledgeable and skilled, with critical judgement
  2. Effective communicators and collaborators
  3. Innovative, creative and entrepreneurial
  4. Socially responsible and engaged in their communities
  5. Culturally capable when working with First Australians
  6. Effective in culturally diverse and international environments

Forms of evidence which demonstrate these graduate attributes include:

Knowledgeable and skilled, with critical judgement

  • Comprehensive knowledge and skills relating to their disciplines
  • Ability to analyse and critically evaluate arguments and evidence
  • Facility with interdisciplinary perspectives
  • Capacity to find, evaluate and use information
  • Ability to apply professional knowledge and skills in the workplace

Effective communicators and collaborators

  • Capacity to communicate effectively with others orally and in writing
  • Capacity to communicate effectively with others using technological and creative media
  • Capacity to interact and collaborate with others effectively in the workplace

Innovative, creative and entrepreneurial

  • Ability to deploy knowledge and skills to devise solutions to problems
  • Knowledge of research methodologies and appropriate to their disciplines
  • Ability to generate creative works and perspectives
  • Capacity to manage their careers independently

Socially responsible and engaged in their communities

  • Ethical awareness and academic integrity
  • Capacity to apply interdisciplinary knowledge to solve real problems
  • Understanding of social and civic responsibilities, human rights and sustainability

Culturally capable when working with First Australians

  • Awareness of and respect for the values and knowledges of First Australian peoples.

Effective in culturally diverse and international environments

  • Ability to interact successfully in culturally linguistically diverse contexts
  • Capacity to apply global knowledge and perspectives

Course Convenors are required to indicate where each of the Griffith Graduate Attributes is taught, practised or assessed in their course, by selecting the relevant check boxes. More than one check box can be selected. Only those attributes that have been selected will be displayed to students.

Professional Graduate Attributes

There are a small number of academic organisations which have a set of Professional Graduate Attributes mapped against Learning Outcomes of the course.

This is usually where a course is offered predominantly in a professional program that requires accreditation against professional graduate attributes:

  • Nursing
  • Midwifery
  • Australian Standards for Physiotherapy
  • Engineers Australia
  • ALTC Threshold Learning Outcomes (Science)
  • National Competency Standards for Dietitians in Australia

Only the System Administrator is able to edit/add professional graduate attribute sets in the course profile system. Where professional graduate attribute sets exist, Schools are requested to review the attributes and advise of any changes to the attributes to the course mapped to the attributes

To map your learning outcomes to professional attributes, select the edit icon for the learning outcome and select the checkbox for the appropriate attribute then select the Save button.

How to add graduate attributes (for use by the System Adminitrator)

Graduate attributes describe the skills and knowledge to be developed by students during their studies

Adding a graduate attribute group

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon edit icon.
  2. Select the add group icon edit icon.
  3. Enter group tag details eg: A,B,C etc.
  4. Enter group title.
  5. Check the display title tick box.
  6. Select the save group button save group icon.

Updating a graduate attribute group

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon edit icon.
  2. Select the edit icon edit icon for the group you wish to update.
  3. Change of title name (update the required text).
  4. If you want to remove the title from appearing in the list of graduate attributes in all profiles uncheck the display title box.
  5. Select the save group button save group icon.

Deleting a graduate attribute group (with no profiles mapped to the group)

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon edit icon.
  2. Select the delete icon for the group you wish to remove.
  3. Select the ok button.

Deleting a graduate attribute group (with profiles mapped to the group)

This action can not be undertaken as attributes are currently mapped to the group.

Adding a graduate attribute

  1. Select the add graduate attribute icon edit icon.
  2. Enter the graduate attribute tag details.
  3. Enter the graduate attribute description details.
  4. Select the relevant graduate attribute group from the pull down menu.
  5. Enter the display order.
  6. Select the save button save icon.

Updating a graduate attribute

  1. Select the graduate attribute group that the graduate attribute is linked to.
  2. Select the edit icon edit icon for the graduate attribute you wish to update.
  3. Update the graduate attribute text.
  4. Select the save button save icon.

Deleting a graduate attribute

Graduate attributes can not be removed if they have already been referenced to course profiles.

Adding a graduate attribute set (university wide attributes)

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon.
  2. Select the add set icon edit icon.
  3. Enter set title details.
  4. Enter set associativity.
  5. Check the display title tick box.
  6. Select the set type from the pull down menu ? Griff.
  7. Select the save button save icon.

Adding a graduate attribute set (professional)

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon edit icon.
  2. Select the add set icon edit icon.
  3. Enter set title details.
  4. Enter set associativity.
  5. Check the display title tick box.
  6. Select the set type from the pull down menu ? professional.
  7. Select the profile assignments icon edit icon.
  8. Undertake profile search.
  9. Select the courses to link to the graduate attribute set.
  10. Select the add selected button.
  11. Select save set button save set icon.

Updating a graduate attribute set (professional) ? updating profiles to the set

  1. Select the edit graduate attribute groups and sets icon edit icon.
  2. Select the edit icon edit icon for the professional attribute set you wish to edit.
  3. Select the profile assignments icon.
  4. Undertake search of profiles to be added to the set.
  5. Select the profiles you wish to link to the graduate attribute set.
  6. Select the add selected button.
  7. Select save set button save set icon.