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HD Year 1 Graduate Outcomes
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Critical Thinking
In the area of Critical Thinking you will:
- Need to relate knowledge to different problem sets
- Recognize and understand text organization, classification, sequence, and hierarchy
- Reads texts critically and evaluate information
- Evaluate information
- Transfer knowledge and information from one topic / field to another.
Communication Literacy
In the area of Communication Literacy you will:
- Understand and follow guidelines on academic honesty
- Evaluate information for its validity, reliability, extensiveness and relevance
- Organize and communication, in English, ideas, concepts and information
- Use in-text citation and referencing techniques
- Improve general linguistic skills – communicative purpose and accuracy
Information Technology
In the area of Information Technology you will:
- Use spell and grammar check functions effectively
- Present your work in a professional style using Word, text and graphics
Vocational Competencies
In the area of Vocational competencies you will:
- Develop your communication and language skills
- Improve your summarizing skills
Leadership and Teamwork
In the area of Leadership and Teamwork you will:
- Contribute equally to the work of your team
- Act effectively in a leadership role if necessary – taking initiative, offering solutions, etc.
- Contribute to group decisions using a number of recognized alternative strategies and assess their resulting effectiveness
- Develop criteria to evaluate team effectiveness & assess team processes and products.
- Offer constructive feedback to team members in an appropriate manner.
- Apply effective action planning strategies
Global Awareness
In the area of Global Awareness you will:
- Identify a number of significant major issues in the summary texts and demonstrate an understanding of their impact on local issues and your own situation now and in the future.
- Synthesize and evaluate information effectively
- Develop the language needed to learn about and discuss global issues
- Explore relationships such as cause & effect / action & consequences
- Understand the concept of ‘hierarchy’
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