Cascadia College
AC-3: Undergraduate Program

The ETSP Degree from Cascadia provides industry-specific knowledge and professional skills that are vital to staking a claim in the emerging green economy. Governments and businesses in this state and around the world are looking for professionals who can “pioneer innovative pathways” as we rethink and redesign how we consume resources; students in this program will have the chance to be a part of that as professional practitioners as well as in roles as informed consumers and political citizens. Upon successful completion of this degree a student will be able to: • Understand patterns and make connections among different disciplines and schools of knowledge and to integrate studies with personal experience • Learn actively and gain comprehensive understanding; to think critically, creatively, and reflectively in order to solve problems; to communicate with clarity and originality for personal growth and productive work; and to interact in diverse and complex environments and complicated, dynamic, and ambiguous situations • Address savings and spending using terms and tools applicable in the commercial arena • Design and execute environmentally sensitive and sustainable practices

The BAS-SP student will leave the program with the ability to manage complex projects, operate at the management level and communicate changes needed at company and regional levels that ensure sustainable practices are interwoven at all levels in the community. A student graduating with a BASSP will have career options in government agencies, utility companies, energy efficiency businesses, non-profits, consulting and auditing organizations, water and agriculture industries, sustainable building/ construction management firms, and educational institutions. Graduates of the BAS-SP will acquire these five key sustainability competencies: • Systems Thinking Competence Systems Thinking Competence is the ability to collectively analyze complex systems across different domains (society, environment, and the economy etc.) and across different scales (local to global). • Interpersonal Competence Interpersonal Competence is the ability to motivate, enable and facilitate collaborative and participatory sustainability research and problem solving. • Anticipatory Competence Anticipatory Competence is the ability to collectively analyze, evaluate, and craft rich ‘pictures’ of the future related to sustainability issues and sustainability problem-solving frameworks. • Strategic Competence Strategic Competence is the ability to collectively design and implement interventions, transitions, and transformative governance strategies toward sustainability. • Normative Competence Normative Competence is the ability to collectively map, specify, apply, reconcile, and negotiate sustainability values, principles, goals, and targets.