Graduate Attributes
Community engagement is relevant to Charles Darwin University’s graduate attributes of:
Personal practical knowledge
Citizenship
World view
Employability skills
The graduate attributes have been developed through comprehensive business consultation and align with the Department of Education, Science and Training employability skills.
Personal practical knowledge
Knowledge base – has an understanding of the broad theoretical and technical concepts related to their discipline area, with relevant connections to industry, professional, regional and Indigenous knowledge.
Citizenship
Teamwork – has a capacity for and understanding of collaboration and cooperation within agreed frameworks, including the demands of intergenerational tolerance, mutual respect for others, conflict resolution and the negotiation of productive outcomes.
World view
Flexibility – can function effectively and constructively in an intercultural or global environment and in a variety of complex situations.
Employability skills
Learning skills that contribute to ongoing improvement and expansion in employee and company operations and outcomes. Team work skills that contribute to productive working relationships and outcomes.
