Sustainability Certificate - Learning Goals
1) Students will be able to identify, critically analyze, and propose solutions to the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability.
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- Students can explain and assess sustainability issues on all three sustainability dimensions using relevant concepts and frameworks, and develop appropriate solutions to associated sustainability challenges.
- Students can evaluate the three dimensions on the individual level and collective level; local level and global level; as well as from an intertemporal perspective.
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- Students can apply scientific inquiry to the analysis of real-world sustainability issues.
- Students can identify scientifically defensible data and empirical evidence and employ this data and evidence to develop rigorous arguments.
- Students can effectively communicate their viewpoints and solutions through writing, speaking, and other forms of communication.
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2) Students will be able to engage in systems thinking and practice so as to address the interrelationships among the three dimensions of sustainability.
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- Students can identify and explain interdependencies among the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability.
- Students know concepts and possess the tools to represent these interconnections, and are able to consider the impacts of decision-making on systems.
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- Students can perform integrative and collaborative scholarship as well as hands-on problem solving with collaborators from different disciplines and fields.
- Students can integrate knowledge and concepts from different disciplines, perspectives, and cultures to the analysis of sustainability.
- Students can apply a holistic approach to the analysis of sustainability.
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3) Students will develop the capacity for an engaged life in which theory, practice, and reflection are integrated in the pursuit of a more sustainable world.
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- Students understand the role and importance of civic responsibility and service in the pursuit of sustainability.
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- Students have a sense of their own civic responsibility and can articulate their (professional and personal) role in contributing to a more sustainable world.
- Students can put into practice sustainability related concepts and tools.
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