Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.92
Liaison Chang Tzau-Chau
Submission Date March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

National Taiwan Normal University
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.27 / 8.00 Chang Tzau-Chau
Professor
Graduate Institute of Environmental Education
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Part 1. Institutional sustainability learning outcomes

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:
NTNU's general education is essential and required for undergraduates that emphasizes on the overall development of the individual to understand the various aspects and relationships of humanity, society, and nature, and to become citizens who actively participate in social affairs.
The core competences of the NTNU’s general education include communication & collaboration, multiple literacy and global perspective, critical thinking & humanistic literacy, aesthetics & taste, active exploration & life-long learning, innovative leadership & problem solving, and social concern & citizenship practice. (http://coursemap.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/course_map_all/ge.php) Its teaching materials cross social, economic, and scientific fields, and its education objective is to cultivate students with holistic, justice, and participative perspectives which is equivalent to sustainable development literacy.
Course List (http://coursemap.itc.ntnu.edu.tw/course_map_all/class.php?code=GU)

Part 2. Program-level sustainability learning outcomes

Total number of graduates from degree programs:
3,655

Number of graduates from degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
582

A brief description of how the figure above was determined:
Learing the core concepts for sustainability were the focus for students of ten departments in NTNU. Students must be able to understand the interdependence of ecological and social/economic systems, or major sustainability challenges.

A list of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability:
(1) Department of Earth Science (and Institute of Marine Environment Science and Technology)
(2) Gradguate Institute of Environmental Education
(3) School of Life Science
(4) Graduate Program of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries
(5) TIGP Biodiversity Program
(6) Department of Human Development and Family Studies
(7) Department of Health Promotion and Health Education
(8) Department of Civic Education and Leadership
(9) Department of Geography
(10) Undergraduate Program of Vehicle and Energy Engineering

Documentation supporting the figure reported above (upload):
AC2_graduates_from_degree_programs.xlsx

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:
15.92

Optional Fields 

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