How do we introduce our students to global and active citizenship?
We can:
- contextualise the Graduate Attributes to our specific discipline
- think about the Graduate Attributes as we write our Programme Learning Outcomes
- design Learning Environments which enable the achievement of those outcomes
- implement these outcomes across the curriculum as a Programme Team, working them into:
- Module Learning Outcomes;
- any planned learning activities;
- all assessments, summative or formative.
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- Have you identified the digital skills and literacies needed by graduates in your discipline/profession or curricular context?
- Have you decided where you can embed opportunities to develop these literacies across your programme?
- Do you use digital technologies that are supported by resources within the university?
- Have you provided opportunities for internationalisation, via, for example:
- co-op placements;
- Internationalisation at Home (IaH) initiatives;
- Virtual Exchange projects
- Have you built in opportunities for students to participate in EDI initiatives?
- Have you included an awareness of social justice and opportunities for students to work towards social good?
- Have you built in processes to facilitate multidisciplinarity in the curriculum?
- Are there 'wicked problems' (complex social or cultural problems that are challenging and difficult to resolve) your students could tackle?
- Have you considered developing a capstone experience to allow students to bring their learning together in creative ways to explore real-world problems?
- Have you considered using portfolio development, to allow students to gather evidence of the attainment of Graduate Attributes for future employers, etc.?
- Have you included opportunities for students to reflect on their development?
- Have you included opportunities for students to identify potential areas for future development?
- Do you plan to encourage students' self-assessment of learning outcomes?
- Do students have opportunities to show their engagement in extra-curricular activities?
- Is it clear to students that such engagement can have an impact on their attainment of the Graduate Attributes?
This interactive checklist containing the questions above will be a helpful tool to discuss these matters with your programme team.
Please contact us at curriculum.development@ul.ie for further information or to request assistance.
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