Dalhousie University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

1: College of Sustainability general sustainability learning outcomes Multiple Literacies: • Ability to work in and with varied formats of written expression, including academic articles, policy documents, and journalistic sources. • Ability to assess, create and utilize visual material in support of an argument. • Ability to manipulate diverse ideas, evaluate evidence, arguments, and conclusions. Complexity: • Understanding of complexity, appreciation of the “wicked problem” nature of sustainability challenges. • Willingness to engage with immediate and timely issues of environment, sustainability, and society. • Ability to work in ways that are both inquisitive and propositional. Interdisciplinarity: • Ability to synthesize and translate knowledge to varied audiences. • Understanding of one’s own disciplinary methods, capacities and limitations, and awareness of those of other disciplines. • Awareness of the range of evidence, analysis and synthesis used in different disciplines and fields, and an appreciation of their various strengths and limitations. Self-awareness and engagement: • Understanding of one’s own subjective position in the world. • Ability to work effectively in collaborations and group situations. • Understanding of the difference between advocacy and research, and the ability to draw relationships between advocacy and research. • Understanding of ethical integrity in relation to academic work, research, personal conduct.

Degree programs or majors were defined as having a sustainability learning outcome if the program had a stated sustainability learning outcome on the departmental website, in the course calendar, or in other relevant documentation. Additional detail for each program can be found in the uploaded Learning Outcomes document attached below. Example: School of Resource and Environmental Management The Masters of Environmental Studies (MES) program will give you the opportunity to create and share knowledge that will generate positive change in the world. You’ll choose a pressing issue related to resources, environment or human wellbeing and the environment, and focus research and a thesis around your discoveries. The program’s balance of courses and peer interaction allows you to explore a broad range of issues.

Degree programs or majors were also defined as having a sustainability learning outcome if all graduates were required to take a sustainability course as identified in the sustainability course inventory. Additional detail for each program can be found in the uploaded Learning Outcomes document attached below.