Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 63.42
Liaison Elaine Durr
Submission Date Feb. 5, 2014
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Elon University
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.20 / 10.00 Jeffrey Coker
Director; Associate Professor
Elon Core Curriculum; Biology
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The number of graduates covered by the sustainability learning outcomes:
1,132

Total number of graduates :
1,380

A list of degree programs that have sustainability learning outcomes:

There is a required first year seminar for all undergraduates as part of general studies. GST 110, The Global Experience, has 6 themes including "the relationship of humans to the natural world."


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:
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A copy of the sustainability course inventory :
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A list or sample of the sustainability learning outcomes associated with the degree programs:

GST 110 Themes (with learning outcomes that are most directly related to sustainability):

• The impact of globalization in an increasingly connected, technological, and rapidly changing world

• The influence of power and resistance in historical and contemporary interactions

• The relationship between humans and the natural world
(Learning Outcome: The student can discuss with scientific accuracy the impacts of human activities on fundamental ecological processes and services.)

• Diversity and its relationship to intercultural competency

• The analysis and evaluation of personal and social responsibility
(Learning Outcome: The student can articulate and evaluate the societal and planetary consequences of his/her individual choices.)

• The processes, limitations, and implications of ethical reasoning


Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The number of graduates is based on the 2012 - 2013 academic year. Undergraduates graduated in May 2013 and all graduate programs graduated in May 2013 except for the DPT Program (December 2012) and the M.Ed. Program (August 2013). General Studies website - http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/generalstudies/


The number of graduates is based on the 2012 - 2013 academic year. Undergraduates graduated in May 2013 and all graduate programs graduated in May 2013 except for the DPT Program (December 2012) and the M.Ed. Program (August 2013). General Studies website - http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/generalstudies/

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