Portland State University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Campus Wide Undergraduate Learning Outcome - Sustainability: 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. See https://www.pdx.edu/institutional-assessment-council/campus-wide-learning-outcomes

Sample School Level Learning Outcomes - School of Business Administration: Sustainability: consider the long-term consequences of business decisions for society and the environment

Programs that include sustainability learning outcomes include:
-Educational Leadership and Policy (Leadership for Sustainability Education)
--fosters skills in sustainability education and collaborative emergent leadership. Learn to design and implement sustainable solutions in a variety of settings including schools, nonprofit organizations, local governments, and businesses.
-Earth, Environment, and Society
--help students, scientists, managers and educators carry out research to improve environmental understanding and implementing adaptive management.
-Environmental Management
--teaches students how to analyze and manage natural environments for human benefit and ecosystem health.
-Public Interest Design
--prepare future leaders in architecture, urban planning, sustainability, community development and other fields to aid currently underserved populations through sustainable, human-centered design methods.
-Economics
--understanding of the critical linkages between economics and key environmental issues.
-Sustainable Food Systems
-- provides students with a foundation of knowledge and practical experience to help them confront the pressing challenges currently facing sustainable food systems.
-Energy Policy and Management
--students develop an understanding of climate change and how energy management can help mitigate efforts on people, economy and our environment
-Urban and Regional Planning
-Urban Studies
--develop an understanding of the growing social and economic inequalities between different places and population groups within the metropolitan region, environmental problems related to the prevailing pattern of urbanization, and the lack of effective institutions of regional governance.
-Sustainability
-- in-depth understanding of the connections between social, environmental, and economic systems, and equips them with the knowledge to apply sustainable, integrated problem solving approaches in their lives and careers.
-Civil and Environmental Engineering
--An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability and sustainability.
-Global Supply Chain Management
-- prepare global leaders in developing strategies that support markets and innovation in a sustainable and efficient manner.
-International Management
--provides students with international as well as general business skills, proficiency in a foreign language, and a deep knowledge of political and economic environments in which global business leaders work, all gained while working with a culturally diverse group of students from around the world.
-Entrepreneurship
--Delve into your focus area using Human-Centered Design best practices
--Practice storytelling techniques to effectively promote your work and share your ideas
-Public Administration:
--Use multidisciplinary and multicultural lenses to provide student with an understanding of responsibility leaderships in environmental and natural resources policy and administration.
-Real Estate Development
--multidisciplinary approach to real estate development that aims to create sustainable, healthy communities.

"number of student that graduate from programs that have adopted at least one sustainability learning outcome" includes all undergraduate degrees (as part of the campus-wide undergraduate learning outcomes) and also includes graduate students from programs with specific sustainability learning outcomes.