| Overall Rating | Gold |
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| Overall Score | 73.99 |
| Liaison | Mary-Lee Townsend |
| Submission Date | Oct. 20, 2021 |
Western University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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8.00 / 8.00 |
Mary-Lee
Townsend Sustainability & Compliance Manager Sustainability Office |
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Has the institution adopted one or more sustainability learning outcomes that apply to the entire student body or, at minimum, to the institution's predominant student body?:
Yes
Which of the following best describes the sustainability learning outcomes?:
Sustainability-focused
A list of the institution level sustainability learning outcomes:
Western University officially adopted the Western Degree Outcomes in May 2016. These are locally developed, institution-specific learning outcomes that will act in place of the Ontario-wide Undergraduate Degree- Level Expectations, commonly referred to as UDLEs. These Degree outcomes will serve as a shared language of achievement and skills that any Western undergraduate—regardless of disciplines or degree—might use to describe the result of their years of study to a variety of audiences. They will provide faculty and students with a common language of academic development and application. It is hoped that today’s WDOs will provide inspiration as well as guidance for program and course-level curricular engagement and innovation in the years to come.
Very specifically, these outcomes include the following outcome that is Sustainability-focused:
5. Global and Community Engagement
Western graduates will be able to interact ethically and compassionately with others and with the natural and social world. Western graduates will be ready to act locally and imagine globally; practice perspective taking and empathy; understand the interconnectedness of the world as expressed through technology, culture, belief systems, economics, and politics; to understand and to exercise social, political and environmental responsibility both at home and abroad.
Total number of graduates from degree programs:
5,895
Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
3,936
A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
Deans were contacted via email and over the phone to provide information and verification on sustainability related learning outcomes.
A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
Classical Studies
Visual Arts
Women's Studies & Feminist Research
Arts & Humanities - NES
Business Administration
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Engineering - NES
Health Sciences - NES
Kinesiology
BHSc
Media Info & Technoculture
Media & Public Interest
Media Theory & Production
Law
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Interdis. Medical Sciences
Biology
Computer Science
Earth Science
Environmental Science
Medical Sciences (BMS)
Economics
Geography
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Management & Organizational Studies
Social Science - NES
Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One
Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
66.77
Website URL where information about the sustainability learning outcomes is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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