Wake Forest University
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

Environmental Science Minor Environmental Studies Minor

The Environmental Science or the Environmental Studies Minor, coupled with a liberal arts major, is designed to prepare students for careers in the environmental sciences, law, public health, public policy, and public administration, and to develop attitudes and values consistent with a sustainable environmental future.

Following are a sample of the learning outcomes proposed by the faculty affiliated with the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability: • Assume leadership in whatever aspect of the environment that engages them, including knowledge of social change, project management, motivating and coordinating people, and offering strategic insights to any effort; • Approach learning pragmatically with adaptive, operational expertise; for example, through projects and working in internships, framing debates, and engaging in public discourse; • Make decisions that integrate economic, environmental and social outcomes; • Think within and beyond disciplinary boundaries in terms of systems and interdisciplinary concepts and theories; • Differentiate incontrovertible scientific facts from political punditry; • Value an ecosystem through social, economic, and environmental criteria.