Learning Objectives

Sustainability Programmatic Goals

The overarching goal of the new Sustainability Program in H&S is to provide students with an integrated learning experience in sustainability as a distinct discipline.  The specific programmatic objectives are:

• Sustainability-Oriented Content
  • Apply systems-thinking skills to demonstrating an understanding of the complex interrelationships between social, economic, and ecological health.
  • Apply the concept of intergenerational equity to an issue related to course content.
  •  Identify how course content relates to sustainability issues
     
•   Thinking Skills: Interdisciplinary, Critical and Systems Thinking
  •   Make explicit cross-disciplinary connections between course material and other disciplinary learning, and apply to deepening understanding of course concepts as expressed in class discussions and assignments.
  • Use a variety of sources (written and verbal, experience, observation, reflection, etc.) and the skills of evaluation, analysis and synthesis to form a solid judgment on a sustainability issue related to course content.  Demonstrate clarity and precision in thinking, accuracy and fairness, and the ability to choose relevant, significant and credible references and arguments. 
  • Demonstrate the ability to analyze and understand complex, multi-dimensional problems using approaches that consider the interactions and relationships of the parts to the whole.
     
• Place-based, community-based learning to effect change
  •  Demonstrate how a course concept applies to understanding the place and time where the learning is taking place, and how this understanding relates to the global and historical context.  Demonstrate the ability to transfer knowledge to other places of reference or time periods.
  • Demonstrate application of course concepts through reflective experiential and service learning.
  • Define values related to course content.  Define and pursue an action using course learning that expresses one or more of these values.  Engage in reflective dialogue about these values with others.
     
•  Learning community
  •  Demonstrate collaborative learning skills, including the ability to define the scope of a project cooperatively and the processes necessary for a group to complete agreed-upon goals.
  •  Demonstrate active learning skills, such as the ability to pose relevant questions and seek answers. 

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