Putting a premium on resilience, creativity and partnering with our alumni

In alignment with the UTS2027 Strategic Initiatives, our redefined FASS2027 Strategy puts a premium on resilience and creativity and identifies our alumni as important partners in achieving our vision and fulfilling our purpose.

Vision 

We develop resilient and creative thinkers who lead positive global change and advance public good in a technology driven world. 

Purpose

We prepare future leaders to be adaptive, globally minded and engaged citizens in a technology-driven world through: 

  • Developing competencies in transcultural communication, creative skills, technology and critical thinking across all disciplines
  • Practice-based and research-informed teaching and learning
  • World-class research that informs and activates positive social change
  • Active collaboration with industry partners, alumni, employers and communities.

Graduate impact

Here in FASS, we want to empower our graduates to contribute to the world with impact. We strive to give them the confidence to hold and articulate different perspectives, and yet be open to evidence and viewpoints from outside their own intellectual comfort zone. In other words, we want them to be aware of unseen echo chambers and be humble enough to always be questioning the reasons and motives we all have for settling on a position.

As we face, yes unprecedented, challenges, UTS and FASS graduates will be called upon to demonstrate their resilience and creativity in contributing to social, political, and economic solutions for their communities.

Transdisciplinary knowledge 

With this in mind, FASS continues to be cutting edge in developing new courses that address local and global challenges, such as our Bachelor of Sustainability and Environment which we launched 2021, a new degree that will equip students with the transdisciplinary knowledge and skills to leverage interconnections between environmental, economic, social and cultural sustainability.

Flexible learning

Complementing our traditional degree programs, we have developed a suite of microcredentials and short courses, such as Design: Designing for Learning and Managing Crisis Communication, aimed at upskilling and reskilling the workforce.

Wherever these uncertain times take us, FASS will be ready.