University of Oregon
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

1) Environmental Studies: Learning Goal – “to develop the skills needed to study human-environment interactions in an interdisciplinary way that respects all of their complexity” 2) Geography: Geog 141 - a core geography course with sustainability-related outcomes: http://geography.uoregon.edu/gavin/courses/Geog141/index.html 3) Landscape Architecture: Department learning element -“Skills: The training and practice in using various technologies to implement landscape design in a humane and ecologically harmonious manner." This element is described here: http://landarch.uoregon.edu/department/values 4) Product Design: Sustainability is clearly woven into the very purpose of the department, as described here: http://pd.uoregon.edu/sustainability/ 5) Accounting: “Developing the Business Professional: accounting for sustainability” is a core accounting course for master’s students. Its focus is on sustainability.

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These sustainability learning outcomes were determined by first looking through the UO Office of Academic Affairs' Assessment Plans page: http://assessment.uoregon.edu/node/67 This page is the only centralized location where department-level learning outcomes are found. Only three department learning outcomes met this criteria. The other two departments (accounting and geography) had sustainability-related courses which were also core courses. To determine courses with sustainability-related outcomes, we only investigated the available syllabi's from core courses on our sustainability related and focused course inventory. It is almost certain that more departments have goals, outcomes, or courses with outcomes, which have a sustainability focus. However, they are either not reported or not found in a centralized location for easy tracking. The #s on the total number of graduates came from the UO Office of Institutional Research. They cover the 2009-2010 academic year.