Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.10
Liaison Steve Mital
Submission Date Feb. 25, 2011
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University of Oregon
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.52 / 10.00 Steve Mital
Office of Sustainability Director
Finance & Administration
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The number of graduates covered by the sustainability learning outcomes:
266

Total number of graduates :
5,068

A list of degree programs that have 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.


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of degree programs that have specified sustainability learning outcomes is available:
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A list or sample of the sustainability learning outcomes associated with the degree programs:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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.


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.

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