Portland State University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Campus Wide Sustainability Learning Outcome: - Students will identify, act on, and evaluate their professional and personal actions with the knowledge and appreciation of interconnections among economic, environmental, and social perspectives in order to create a more sustainable future. Sample Program-Level Sustainability Learning Outcomes: - The ability to manage, argue, and act legally, ethically, and critically in the society and the environment. This includes collaborative, interdisciplinary, and leadership skills. - Students will gain familiarity with importance of ecosystems and environments for living systems and will become acquainted with unity and diversity of life. - Graduates recognize that impacts on social and environmental sustainability must be considered to fully understand business practices. - Appreciation of the current and historical role of chemistry in the economy, in society, in the environment, and in medicine. - The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.