Professional Certificate in English Language (PR-ENGLANG) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

The Professional Certificate will enable graduates to further their development of the following University of Melbourne Graduate Attributes:

Academically excellent

Graduates will develop their knowledge of English Language grammar and sociolinguistics based on recent research and scholarship and their understanding of the ways in which this underpins the teaching and learning of relevant content within the school curriculum. They will demonstrate a high level of achievement in problem-solving, analytical reasoning and communication. Graduates will be critical and creative thinkers, with an aptitude for continued self-directed learning, and will be adept at learning in a range of ways, including through information and communication technologies.

Knowledge across disciplines

Graduates will examine critically, synthesise and evaluate knowledge across discipline and sub-discipline areas relevant to the teaching and learning of English Language within a school setting. They will expand their analytical and cognitive skills through learning experiences and have the capacity to participate fully in collaborative learning and to confront unfamiliar problems. As a result of completing the Professional Certificate, they will have acquired a set of flexible and transferrable skills that will allow creative approaches to student learning and engagement to be implemented.

Leaders in communities

Graduates of the Professional Certificate will be able to initiate and implement constructive change in their school communities with an awareness of community needs. This may include, but will not be limited to, engaging in meaningful public discourse and mentoring more junior colleagues in education.

Attuned to cultural and linguistic diversity

Graduates will be working within organisations characterised by cultural and other forms of diversity. Graduates will value different cultures and social groups and the differing communicative practices of these groups (including Indigenous Australians), and will be well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work.

Active global citizens

The course will assist graduates in the development of a broad global understanding of how education in general, and knowledge of language and communication in particular, can contribute to the further improvement of human rights, social inclusion, and ethics.