Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.71
Liaison Keisha Payson
Submission Date Feb. 28, 2019
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Bowdoin College
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.57 / 8.00 Keisha Payson
Sustainability Director
Sustainable Bowdoin
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Total number of graduates from degree programs (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, certificates, and other academic designations):
489

Number of students that graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
96

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
19.63

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)?:
No

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

Bowdoin College - Learning Outcomes by Department
Each Department at Bowdoin has their own learning outcomes. The sustainability office pulled out all majors and minors whose outcomes either explicitly focus on sustainability, or combine social, economic and environmental concepts, as per paragraph three of section B of the Learning Outcomes document.
Biology Learning Outcomes(Majors: 35 / Minors: 5)
• Ecology (species interactions, population biology, ecosystem processes, natural history)
• Influence of Biology on Social Issues (conservation, research practices, bioethics).
• Applying ecological and evolutionary concepts to contemporary environmental and social issues.

Earth and Oceanographic Sciences Learning Outcomes(Majors: 17 / Minors: 5)
• Gain fluency within and ability to integrate among earth systems by focusing on surface earth processes, solid earth processes, and oceans.
• Recognize and communicate the connections between earth systems and society including human impacts on the earth, natural hazards and earth’s resources.

Environmental Studies Learning Outcomes (Majors: 29 / Minors: 5)
• Engage principles and methods of the humanities and the arts to consider ethical, cultural, historical, literary and artistic dimensions of environmental questions
• Engage principles and methods of the social sciences to analyze and evaluate political, economic, psychological, anthropological and sociological dimensions of environmental questions
• To discern underlying values and criteria used to evaluate alternatives for addressing environmental problems.
• To develop the ability to identify and engage various communities and stakeholders, while acknowledging questions of equity and power


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)?:
No

A list or brief description of the course level sustainability learning outcomes and the programs for which the courses are required:
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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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