Princeton University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Princeton's general education requirements for all undergraduate students include the following sustainability-supportive learning outcomes.

• Science and Engineering (SEL/SEN)—Science and engineering encompass the study of the natural and constructed worlds, their impact on humanity, and the human impact on them. These disciplines teach principles, methods, and systematic thinking, how to innovate theories and methodologies, how to test hypotheses and prototypes by analyzing data while managing uncertainty, and how to enhance the built world through creativity and design. Fundamental to science and engineering are the methods and habits of mind in which models are developed, critiqued, and refined, thereby enriching and expanding our ways of understanding — and fascination with — the natural and constructed environments, and our own positions within them. 

• Culture and Difference (CD)—The requirement in Culture and Difference begins with the premise that human beings experience the world through their respective cultures — the ideas, meanings, norms, and habituations — that are represented in the arts and literature, laws and institutions, and social practices of human societies whose histories and power relationships often differ from one another.  Found across a wide range of disciplines, these courses use cultural analysis to trace the ways in which human beings construct meaning both within and across groups. Culture and Difference courses offer students a lens through which other forms of disciplinary inquiry are enhanced, critiqued, and clarified, often paying close attention to the experiences and perspectives of groups who have historically been excluded from dominant cultural narratives or structures of social power. The requirement in Culture and Difference is the only requirement that may be satisfied either independently or concurrently with another distribution area.

• Social Analysis (SA)—Social analysis involves the study of the structures, processes, and meanings human beings create through our interactions with one another, and the networks and institutions through which human behavior develops and evolves. The codes and narratives we share with others, often unspoken, produce our sense of “the normal” and structure our thought and behavior. These components of social life are accessible through both quantitative methods, which involve the statistical analysis of data, and qualitative methods, which rely on the interpretation of data gathered through observation and interaction.  Social analysis enables us to make sense of the social structures and processes that shape individual lives, to understand the role of institutions — such as the family, government, schools, and labor markets — in society, and to define and respond to social problems, such as inequality and violence.

An overview of Princeton's General Education Requirements for undergraduate students can be found here: https://ua.princeton.edu/policies-resources/general-education-requirements.

A list of degree programs were identified that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability. Then the totals of undergraduates and graduate students who obtained degrees from those programs were added up to determine the figure above.

• Ecology and Evolutionary Biology—An interdisciplinary program focused on the ways in which animals, plants and microbes function, interact, and evolve in a changing world. Foundational research questions fall into five areas: Ecology & the Environment, Evolution & Genomics, Behavior & Sensory Biology, Conservation & Biodiversity, and Infectious Disease.
• Geosciences— Princeton’s Department of Geosciences is at the forefront of scientific discovery in the solid earth, environmental geosciences, and oceanography/climate science. Faculty and students address critical societal issues, such as climate change and geologic hazards, through research and education at all levels. The mission is to understand Earth’s history and its future, the energy and resources required to support an increasing global population, and the challenge of sustainability in a changing climate.
• Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)—an autonomous graduate program within the Department of Geosciences. In this program, students can apply their training in natural sciences, engineering, computer science, and mathematics to societally relevant problems in climate, ocean, and atmospheric research, with an emphasis on the use of theory and numerical modeling.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering—Focuses on research problems that include the sustainability of the built and natural environments, among others such as carbon mitigation and climate change; ecohydrology of water-limited ecosystems with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa; atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric dynamics; development of new environmental and structural sensor networks; and the biogeochemistry of wetlands and riparian environments.
• Population Studies—The Graduate program in population Studies requires a grasp of the learning outcomes: population and the environment, development, poverty, and urbanization for the General Exam. 
• Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering—The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is concerned with the engineering science and technologies associated with ground, air, water, and space transportation. Key learning outcomes include the environmental effects of said technologies. The program also offers a certificate program in Sustainable Energy.
• Chemical and Biological Engineering—Princeton's Chemical and Biological Engineering program seeks to prepare students to turn laboratory or conceptual ideas into cost-effective and environmentally safe products. This interdisciplinary program also features environmental sciences and other relevant fields in core courses and electives.

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