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We want our UCC graduates to be recognised as well-rounded, curious, self-aware individuals who continually learn new skills, are open to new ideas, and make things happen. As a UCC student, you belong to a dynamic and diverse community where many, many people wish to support you on your learning journey. Here at UCC, we liken this journey to the growth of an acorn to an oak tree. The “Acorn to Mighty Oak” metaphor symbolises your academic, personal and professional development journey throughout your time at UCC. Your UCC Graduate Attributes and Values Compass supports you to consider your holistic development, through your formal curriculum and through the many ways that you can grow, develop and become at UCC.
Student Feedback
Your Compass helped me identify and further develop my values and attributes as I prepared for my
professional career as a graduate.
Edel Lonergan- UCC Digital Humanities and IT Graduate
I found it great, it was a brilliant learning experience and I really felt like it told me more about myself. Things I couldn't have found out on my own.
Marek Zbanski, BCommerce
The questions were a lot broader than I was expecting. I am the only person that got to see my results and the experience was very introspective, reflective and enlightening.
Hannah Damaris Keniry- UCC graduate & researcher in the Department of Asian Studies
A video message from Joan Osayande: Your Compass Launch
Your Compass was piloted with several undergraduate and postgraduate student cohorts who provided feedback that helped to refine the platform in its final stages of development. One of those students was Joan Osayande. Joan has been an incredible friend of the Graduate Attributes Programme and supported us on a range of events and initiatives this summer.
She began her journey in UCC as one of our first Sanctuary Scholars studying Medical and Health Sciences and is now a Postgraduate Research Student in the College of Medicine and Health. She is studying the influence of the gut microbiome on motor function and its link to Parkinson's disease. Joan recorded a podcast with us where she represented the value of ambition and discusses her incredibly interesting work. Joan wanted to join us during the launch of Your Compass, but was out on fieldwork but sent us this video message:
Your UCC Graduate Attributes and Values Compass or Your Compass for short, the flagship initiative of the Graduate Attributes Programme. In partnership with multiple academic and professional services units across the university, this self-assessment tool has been created to support and facilitate students in the development of their attributes and values. The learning experiences available on the platforms have been curated by over 20 professional services and academic staff, with the aim that all students are facilitated through curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular learning to develop their graduate attributes and values, in a manner reflective of their personal goals and programme of study. The development of this self-assessment tool was a key action and priority of UCC's Academic Strategy 2018-2022, and we are delighted that students will get the opportunity to discover Your Compass from this semester.
Attributes are traits that define our personality and how we approach different situations in our lives. Based on extensive consultation with stakeholders, the following core graduate attributes have been prioritised in UCC:
Creators, evaluators and communicators of knowledge
Independent and creative thinkers
Digitally Fluent
Socially Responsible
Effective global citizens, who recognise and challenge inequality
Your values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live and work. Through teaching and learning, co-curricular and extra-curricular initiatives, the UCC community aims to support you to develop the following core values:
Respect
Ambition
Compassion
Resilience
Integrity
UCC Graduate Attributes Programme Podcast
The UCC Graduate Attributes Programme podcast features current students at different stages along their Transition Through and Transition Out journey. Tune in to hear what core UCC graduate attributes and values mean to our students in real terms.
Diandra Ní Bhuachalla student of MSc International Public Policy & Diplomacy
The
MA in Arts Management & Creative Producing is a programme where students are trained in arts leadership and management, as well as essential practical skills in event organisation. As part of the programme, students produce the
CurrentLee Arts Festival, which celebrates the past, present and future of Cork across a programme of music, dance, comedy and theatre.In this episode Daniel Cremin, Aleksandra Soboleva, Gemma Bugler, Karla Grosser, and Jack Murphy share how getting involved in the Festival, has positively impacted both their student experience and career.
Edel Lonergan student of Digital Humanities and Information Technology with Spanish language.
Maeve O'Keefe graduate of Applied Psychology in UCC.
Joan Osayande student of BSc (Hons) Medical and Health Science and currently MSc(research) Neuroscience UCC.
The Graduate Attributes Programme is very generously supported by the HEA Tranformation and Innovation Fun 2018 the Tomar Trust, and we gratefully acknowledge this funding which is enabling the development of much needed sustainable and scalable projects such as Your UCC Graduate Attributes and Values Compass.
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