We know that study here at Charles Sturt University is only one step of your journey, and you will one day be a leader of your profession, and a leader in your community.
That’s why study at Charles Sturt is more than just getting job skills. It’s about preparing you with qualities that we associate with university graduates, such as being reliably informed, a good communicator, job ready, a lifelong learner and a citizen of the world.
Helping you develop these qualities is not only important to Charles Sturt, it’s important to the Australian Government. This is why all universities are required to include the development of these qualities in their curriculum.
We help you learn these qualities in the same way as we help you learn a lot of things. You will find GLOs sprinkled throughout your course.
Demonstrate the capacity to effectively understand, interpret, analyse, and communicate information in context through the application of knowledge and skills in academic literacy and numeracy.
Charles Sturt graduates demonstrate capability as inquirers to locate, evaluate, manage, and use information and research to develop and guide their own knowledge, learning, and practice.
Demonstrate the capacity to be active, confident, informed, and adaptable digital citizens and critical thinkers who can transmit, communicate and transfer knowledge through the application of information, research and digital literacies.
Professional Practice: Demonstrate the capacity to become successful in and contribute meaningfully to their chosen profession and broader community by applying a range of discipline-specific and professional knowledge, skills, capabilities and values and engaging in life-long learning, and evidence-informed and reflective practice.
Demonstrate a commitment to cultural safety and social justice in their practice through critical reflection on and examination of the cultural and historical issues, power and privilege affecting First Nations lives and communities.
Demonstrate the capacity to work effectively in a global world and across social, cultural, economic, geo-political and environmental contexts by applying a range of global citizenship knowledge, skills, capabilities and values.
Demonstrate the capacity to engage in sustainable practice and ethical decision making by critically balancing a range of social, cultural, economic, and environmental factors in a way that ensures ecological health, thriving society and individual wellbeing, now and for future generations.