Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.53
Liaison Dedee DeLongpre Johnston
Submission Date July 27, 2018
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Wake Forest University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.48 / 8.00 Dedee DeLongpre Johnston
Chief Sustainability Officer
Office of Sustainability
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Total number of graduates from degree programs (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, certificates, and other academic designations):
1,922

Number of students that graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
356

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
18.52

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the institution level (e.g. covering all students)?:
No

Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the division level (e.g. covering particular schools or colleges within the institution)?:
Yes

A list or brief description of the institution level or division level sustainability learning outcomes:

Sustainability Graduate Programs (http://graduate.cees.wfu.edu/)
-Develop visions for sustainable futures including creative design, modeling, and imaginative and forward thinking to define what should be existing to create sustainable outcomes
-Understand and use information about natural and human systems to identify opportunities to lead beneficial changes in organizations and public policy
-Develop leadership skills applied to small and large-scale change management; analyze and use interpersonal skills to influence and work with others

School of Divinity (https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/)
-Learn about the relationship between ecological wellbeing, theological understandings, and ministry practices.


Does the institution specify sustainability learning outcomes at the program level (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, degrees, diplomas, certificates, and other academic designations)?:
Yes

A list or brief description of the program level sustainability learning outcomes (or a list of sustainability-focused programs):

Environmental Program (http://college.wfu.edu/environment/)
I. Core Knowledge:
• Students will develop relevant competency to address current environmental issues from an interdisciplinary perspective by integrating information from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.
• Students will develop sufficient scientific literacy to understand the forms and functions of natural ecosystems.
• Students will develop a sufficient understanding of the complexity of the social, economic, and political dynamics leading to the development and the resolution of environmental problems.
• Students will have a grasp on historical perspectives, and religious and spiritual dimensions of the human relationship with the ecosystem.

II. Skills:
• Students will cultivate the ability to make nuanced articulations of complex and contested environmental issues both orally, and in writing.
• Students will acquire basic quantitative, research, and communication skills useful for analyzing and proposing solutions to environmental concerns.

III. Applications:
• Students will acquire the ability to apply their knowledge (area I) and skills (area II) to real-world problems effecting natural and social systems.
• Students will collaborate with other people on current environmental issues through interdisciplinary team projects, service learning experiences, internships, and volunteer work.

IV. Cultural Competencies:
• Students will be able to identify differences in the ways in which sustainability is understood by different constituencies, and the ways in which these communities deploy the term in the public sphere.
• Students will develop the ability to critically analyze environmental representations in science, politics, art, and literature


Do course level sustainability learning outcomes contribute to the figure reported above (i.e. in the absence of program, division, or institution level learning outcomes)?:
Yes

A list or brief description of the course level sustainability learning outcomes and the programs for which the courses are required:

All Biology majors must complete BIO 113 - Evolutionary and Ecological Biology for graduation. (http://college.wfu.edu/biology/undergraduate/the-biology-major/)

Students should understand:
1.Life and the flow of matter and energy in ecosystems and the biosphere.
2.Interactions between individuals and species and their consequences
3.The effects of phenotypic and genotypic change and variation within populations.
4.Mechanisms of speciation and diversification
5.Population growth, regulation, and persistence
6.Evolution and the framework of life’s history on Earth.
7.Factors determining global patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem function and their changes through time
All outcomes focus on human interactions with non-human systems through a conservation lens.


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