| Overall Rating | Bronze |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 33.05 |
| Liaison | Lynda Koot |
| Submission Date | Nov. 8, 2021 |
The King's University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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4.59 / 8.00 |
Michael
Ferber Director, Environmental Studies Environmental Studies |
Has the institution adopted one or more sustainability learning outcomes that apply to the entire student body or, at minimum, to the institution's predominant student body?:
Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
Total number of graduates from degree programs:
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:
Graduates in the following programs were included: Environmental Studies (major); Geography (minor); Biology (major and minor); Chemistry (major and minor); Economics (minor); Education (Elementary and Secondary); Micah Certificate; Politics, History and Economics (major); Political Science (minor). These programs were chosen because they all require courses within the sustainability focused and inclusive list.
Several programs that also include a sustainability focus could not be tracked amongst graduates because they are not included on transcripts. These include the Environmental Management and the Non-Profit and Social Entrepreneurship advising streams in the Business program, and the Justice Fellowship (https://www.kingsu.ca/research/micah-centre/justice-fellowship)
A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
For example, the Environmental Studies Program developed the following student objectives in its 2019 program review and ECO Canada Re-accreditation:
The mission of the Environmental Studies program is to enable learners to explore God’s creation, discover how humans should and do interact with creation, and equip them for a vocation to faithfully exercise humanity’s responsibility for creation care.
Specific learning objectives and learner outcomes include:
1. Developing a framework of caring for creation rooted in a Christian perspective
a. Outcome: able to distinguish various theological and philosophical
viewpoints on the human-environment interrelationship and articulate their
own faith-based or ethical framework
2. Grounding Environmental Studies in interdisciplinary knowledge and critical thinking through a liberal arts and science based university education
a. Outcome: a critical learner that demonstrates scientific and socioeconomic understanding of environmental issues
3. Gaining specific knowledge and skills in a chosen discipline and relating that discipline to Environmental Studies
a. Outcome: can articulate and apply concepts, approaches and skills of a
particular discipline to environmental problems and opportunities
4. Discerning and applying a suite of analytical, technical and computational skills for environmental investigation (e.g., statistics, Geographical Information Systems,policy analysis, field and research methods)
a. Outcome: can select and apply appropriate approaches to collecting,
analyzing and interpreting environmental data
5. Communicating environmental information to different audiences (e.g., academic,processional, public)
a. Outcome: demonstrated writing, oral and presentation skills for
communicating environmental information using various media and
technologies
6. Integrating learning with work experience and teaching job-searching skills in the environmental sector
a. Outcome: vocation-ready graduates with internship experience and job searching skills (e.g., resume writing, interviewing) and knowledgeable
about the environmental sector and profession (e.g., EPt)
Other sustainability-focused programs include:
-Biology (major and minor)
-Business: Environmental Management Stream
-Business: Nonprofit and Social Entrepreneurship Stream
-Chemistry (major and minor)
-Education: elementary
-Education: secondary
-Economics minor
-Geography Minor
-Justice Fellowship
-Micah Certificate
-Politics, History, and Economics
-Politics Minor
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:
Website URL where information about the sustainability learning outcomes is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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