Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.69
Liaison Ciannat Howett
Submission Date July 25, 2011
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Emory University
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.78 / 10.00 Meredith Stocks
Intern
Office of Sustainability Initiatives
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The number of graduates covered by the sustainability learning outcomes:
696

Total number of graduates :
3,906

A list of degree programs that have sustainability learning outcomes:

BS/BA Environmental Studies (21)
BA/BS Community Building and Social Change Minor (4)
MA Development Practice (No graduates yet)
Sustainability Minor (No graduates yet)
MPH Environmental Health (28)
MPH Global Health (71)
BA Anthropology (about 200)
ECAS- Latin American and Caribbean Studies (4)
BA/BS Physics and Astronomy (2)
LGS/BA- Sociology (70)
GBS-BBA Program (296)


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of degree programs that have specified sustainability learning outcomes is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory :
A list or sample of the sustainability learning outcomes associated with the degree programs:

BA/BS: Environmental Studies Major
Students will develop the ability to think critically about environmental problems, and to apply ENVS problem solving skills to diverse problems. Students will develop their individual creative capacity, the ability to generate novel ideas, methods and solutions to environmental issues.
Social Science and Policy*
215 Human Ecology
225 Institutions and the Environment
227WR Environmental Policy
*Students are required to take 1 of these 3 Social Science and Policy ENVS courses.

ENVS students must also concentrate in one of the following areas:
1. Sustainability and Development
2. Conservation and Resource Management
3. Environment and Health
4. The Urban Environment
5. Ecology
6. Environmental Policy

BA/BS Minor in Community Building and Social Change
CBSC 370A: Community Bldg & Soc Change I
CBSC 370B: Planning Community Initiatives
CBSC 492R: Practicum:Comm Bldg & Soc Chng

Masters in Development Practice (MDP)
The Master’s in Development Practice core curriculum integrates substantive knowledge spanning the disciplines of health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, social sciences and management in order to foster the development of practical, cross-disciplinary skills necessary to prepare students for the field of sustainable development practice.
• Health Sciences - nutrition, population sciences and reproductive health, basic epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious disease, health policy, health system design and management
• Natural Sciences and Engineering - agriculture, forestry and fishery management, water management, energy, engineering, environment and climate science, information management systems and design
• Social Sciences - anthropology, economics, education, politics and international political economies, statistics
• Management - project design and management, budget planning and financial management, commodities management, communication and negotiations, critical self-reflection, geographic information systems and decision making tools, institutional resource and human resource management, monitoring and evaluation

Sustainability Minor:
Students minoring in Sustainability must complete an integrative Introduction to Sustainability course, an interdisciplinary Capstone course (which involves a hands-on research or outreach activity), plus four other electives, distributed among the natural and social sciences and the humanities. In addition to coursework, students demonstrate the integration of sustainability knowledge and perspectives with an electronic portfolio that supports reflection on key issues. The portfolio is reviewed by a faculty steering committee each semester.

For more information visit: http://ila.emory.edu/home/undergraduate/majors_minors/sustainability_minor.html

Anthropology BA:
Demonstrate an understanding of cultural theory and ethnographic research, with a more sophisticated understanding of the research in at least one sub-discipline of cultural anthropology, including medical anthropology and global health, linguistics, political economy and development, sustainability, gender and sexuality, globalization, or psychological anthropology.

Physics and Astronomy BS/BA:
Apply and appreciate ethical principles of scientific conduct in regard to environmental protection, use of resources, and collaboration with colleagues.

GBS – BBA Program: Students will consider traditional business objectives in the context of community and environmental impact

ECAS – Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Social equity/poverty, interconnectedness of social, economic challenges.

LGS – Sociology: Comparative political economy and global development; culture; social inequality; and social psychology.


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Not all programs at Emory University utilize learning outcomes as an assessment tool for academic programs. Therefore it is difficult to discern which programs have sustainability learning outcomes as defined by AASHE.


Not all programs at Emory University utilize learning outcomes as an assessment tool for academic programs. Therefore it is difficult to discern which programs have sustainability learning outcomes as defined by AASHE.

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