Graduate Capabilities

Curtin is committed to producing graduates who demonstrate the Graduate Capabilities. Students are presented with appropriate learning, teaching, and assessment experiences to enable them to develop and demonstrate the Curtin Graduate Capabilities. The Curtin Graduate Capabilities are explicitly communicated to staff and students in all course and unit documentation.

Curtin graduates demonstrate evidence, as appropriate to their disciplines, that they can:

  1. DisciplineKnowledge  Apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts
  2. ThinkCritically  Innovative, creative and entrepreneurial (Graduates will be able to apply their discipline knowledge with intellectual inquiry, be creative leaders in problem-solving and challenge traditional ideas.)
  3. Technology Effective communicators with digital competency (Graduates will be able to effectively communicate, and confidently access, use and adapt information and technology to meet the needs of life, learning and future work.)
  4.  CulturalAwarenessGlobally engaged and responsible (Graduates will be able to engage with global perspectives in ethical and sustainable ways, and understand how to apply and adapt their knowledge and skills to a changing environment.)
  5. ProfessionalSkills Respectful and supportive of Indigenous values, cultures and knowledges (Graduates will demonstrate cross-cultural capability and have an applied understanding of local First Peoples’ “katajininy warniny” (translated from the Noongar language as “ways of being, knowing and doing”)
  6. AccessInfo – Industry connected and career capable (Graduates will be capable of collaboration with industry and other stakeholders, enabling them to contribute skilled work that is valued by industry, government and community, and that reflects high ethical and moral standards.)

In addition, graduates of research degrees demonstrate the ability to create knowledge through research.

Teaching, learning and assessment of the Curtin Graduate Capabilities is assured through the normal course approval and review processes, and the monitoring of student learning experiences through student evaluation mechanisms.