| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.30 |
| Liaison | Stephen Ellis |
| Submission Date | May 31, 2024 |
Boston University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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6.11 / 8.00 |
Gabrielle
Brewer Sustainability Analyst BU Sustainability |
Part 1. Institutional sustainability learning outcomes
Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
The BU Hub is Boston University’s University-wide general education program that emphasizes working across disciplines to prepare for a complex and diverse world. Students earn units in Hub areas to complete their general education requirements by exploring a variety of courses and innovative learning experiences while developing six essential capacities and fulfilling Hub requirements. The BU Hub offers students multiple pathways to fulfill their general education requirements, but it does not require that students take a specific set of courses, and rather encourages them to explore their interests while integrating Hub requirements with their undergraduate studies. Launched in spring 2021, Boston University offers BU Hub Pathways for "Social & Racial Justice" and "Environment & Society". BU Hub Pathways are curated lists of Hub courses that focus on interdisciplinary themes of global significance such as Social & Racial Justice and Environment & Society. These Hub Courses, along with other courses not enlisted in the Hub Pathways, are required to be selected and taken to fulfill students' general education requirements. The Hub Pathways are fully elective, and students can choose to incorporate as many courses within a particular Hub Pathway as they wish. The Hub Pathway in Environment & Society allows students to engage with themes of human-environment interactions; the relationship between climate change and society; environmental policy; sustainable energy and development; earth and environmental sciences; and environmental humanities, among others. The Environment & Society Hub Pathway provides students with the opportunity to fulfill general education requirements by taking Hub courses across a variety of disciplines that seek to understand and ensure a sustainable environment and society that supports human activity on our planet, so that we might “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. URL: https://www.bu.edu/hub/hub-courses/bu-hub-pathways/bu-hub-pathway-environment-society/
Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes
Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
With assistance from Institutional Research (IR), we collected metrics on the number of graduates who earned their degree and identified which of the programs from which students graduated requires an understanding of the concept of sustainability (see the list of programs below).
A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Bachelors degree programs:
BA in Energy and Environment
BA in Environmental Analysis and Policy
BA in Biology with Specialization in Ecology and Conservation Biology
BA in Earth and Environmental Science
Minor in Earth & Environmental Sciences
Minor in Sustainable Energy
Minor in Environmental Analysis and Policy
Masters degree programs:
MA in Preservation Studies
MA in Earth Sciences
MA in Earth and Environment MA in Global Development Economics
MS in Population Health Research
MS in Population Health Research: Translation,Implementation Science
MS in Population Health Research: Epidemiology
MS in Population Health Research: Public Health Data Science
MSc in Environmental Health
MPH in Interdisciplinary Training in Population Health
MPH in Environmental Health
Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This represents FY2023 BU Metrics.
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.