University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Campus has established five core learning outcomes that all students will achieve by graduation. Two specifically relate to sustainability and combine to address the field as a whole: 4: Social Awareness and Cultural Understanding Definition: Illinois students will develop a critical and reflective orientation toward such social and cultural differences as race, indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, language, and disability. 5: Global Consciousness Definition: Illinois students will discover how complex, interdependent global systems—natural, environmental, social, cultural, economic, and political—affect and are affected by the local identities and ethical choices of individuals and institutions.

Sustainability in day-to-day life •Students will learn ways in which natural resources are used to produce what they consume, such as the food they eat, the water they drink, and the energy they use. •Students will understand ways in which their lifestyle and well-being are interconnected with those of diverse producers and consumers around the world, including impoverished communities. Sustainability knowledge and skills •Students will learn core concepts of ecology and develop skills relevant to their chosen field to provide a basis for environmental sustainability. •Students will learn to think holistically about sustainability using perspectives across multiple disciplines. Sustainability as Personal Vision •Students will understand relationships between global environmental and economic trends and their impact on diverse cultures and communities. •Students will develop an integrated vision for sustainability that embraces their personal lives, professions, local communities, and the world-at-large. These are all for the Sustainability Minor, and sourced from the 2015 iCAP