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Liaison Michael Mumper
Submission Date Feb. 27, 2019
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Lebanon Valley College
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Michael Schroeder
Associate Professor of History; Co-Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Committee
Department of History, Politics & Global Studies
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Total number of graduates from degree programs (i.e. majors, minors, concentrations, certificates, and other academic designations):
596

Number of students that graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
114

Percentage of students who graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome:
19.13

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):

History-Secondary Education;
Biology-Secondary Education;
International Business Program;
Global Studies Program, major and minor;
Environmental Science;
Environmental Studies


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)?:
Yes

A list or brief description of the course level sustainability learning outcomes and the programs for which the courses are required:

BIO 203 Conservation Biology
BIO 302 Plant Diversity
BIO 312 Ecology – Biology Secondary Education
BIO 313 Forest Ecology and Management
BIO 314 Wildlife Ecology and Management
BIO 315 Wetland Ecology and Conservation
BUS 270 Environmental Management and Policy
COE 244HU Art for a Changing World: Studies in Environmental Art
COE 244NS Naturalist Studies of Pennsylvania
COE 244SS Cultural & Political Histories of Humans in Nature since 1491
COE 244IN Paths of Inquiry & the Web of Life
COE 273SS Energy Revolutions
COE 273 NS Evolution and Science of Global Energy
CHM 302 Environmental Chemistry
ECN 316 Environmental Economics
ECN 317 Energy and Natural Resource Economics
ENVI 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENVI 130 Introduction to Geosystems
ENVI 131 Geographic Information Systems
FYE 111 Sustainability: Global Market
FYE 111 People and the Planet
FYE 112 People and the Planet
GLB 101 Crossing Borders Globalization – International Business Program; Global Studies Program, major and minor
HIS 202 Historical and Cultural Geography - History-Secondary Education
HIS 254 Topics in the History of the America: Communities, Ecologies, Capital & the State
PHL 288 Applied Philosophy of Food
PHL 311 Key Issues: Environmental Ethics

Each of the above courses includes one or more sustainability-related learning outcome, though each is framed a bit differently, making it impossible to identify such learning outcomes that apply to all of these courses. We therefore provide a representative sample of the sustainability learning outcomes in various individual courses:

1. The EAT Research Group, which has undertaken a number of initiatives related to sustainability, includes student-led research projects such as a “weigh the waste” program to track food waste; a “record the waste” project to use video images to quantify food waste; and introducing plant-forward dining options to meet sustainability goals.

2. ECN 316 Environmental Economics student learning outcomes:

- To understand the trade-offs associated with economic growth and environmental sustainability
- To study the set of tools economic theory provides us with to deal with environmental problems.
- To understand the limitations of economic tools and debates around their use.
- To be able to analyze the role of policy in environmental issues.
- To apply principles and concepts from economic theory to environmental problems
- To use analytical tools learnt in the class to critically evaluate environmental policies proposed to handle concerns over point source and non-point source pollution, climate change, biodiversity and other environmental problems.
- To write a project report on an issue of their choice and present it in front of an audience.

3. HIS 202 Historical & Cultural Geography student learning outcomes:
- To demonstrate an understanding of the discipline of historical geography and the concept of geographic change over time.
- To demonstrate an understanding of the historical processes that have produced contemporary geographic and human landscapes.
- To demonstrate an understanding of geographic relationships between past and present patterns in agriculture, land use, urbanization, transportation, settlement, industry, migration, disease, and other variables.
- To demonstrate an understanding of how changing perceptions of the physical and cultural environment have influenced human behavior and decision-making.
- To demonstrate the acquisition of factual knowledge about the discipline of historical geography as applied to specific parts of the globe (terminology, classifications, methods, trends).
- To demonstrate an understanding of the historical evolution of today’s fossil-fuel economy and diverse human responses to the reality of global climate change, as seen from diverse cultural perspectives.

We hope this representative sample conveys the extent to which the foregoing list of courses integrate diverse sustainability-related learning outcomes.


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