San Diego State University
ER-9: Sustainability Learning Outcomes

In a 2010 survey faculty identified the types of student learning outcomes they incorporated in their courses. Graduates from departments where faculty identified three or more sustainability student learning outcomes in the curriculum were counted as covered by sustainability student learning outcomes. Accountancy, Administration, Rehabilitation, and Post-secondary Education, Anthropology; Art, Design, and Art History; Biology, Chicana and Chicano Studies, Child and Family Development, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, Education Leadership, Electrical and Computer Engineering, English and Comparative Literature, European Studies, Geography, Public Health, History, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Information and Decision Systems, International Business, International Security and Conflict Resolution, Journalism and Media Studies, Management, Mathematics and Statistics, Mechanical Engineering, Nursing, Policy Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Public Affairs, Spanish and Portuguese, Special Education, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; Teacher Education, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies. Graduates from departments reporting two or fewer sustainability learning outcomes were not included in the sustainability learning outcome total. Faculty from the following departments reported incorporating two sustainability learning outcomes in the courses they teach: Education Technology, Linguistics, Marketing, Philosophy, Physics, Religious Studies, Social Work, Theater.

Sustainability Student Learning Outcomes developed by the Senate Sustainability Committee (2010) -Understand and be able to effectively communicate the concept of sustainability. -Develop and use an ethical perspective in which students view themselves as embedded in the fabric of an interconnected world. -Become aware of and explore the connections between their chosen course of study and sustainability. -Develop technical skills or expertise necessary to implement sustainable solutions. -Understand the way in which sustainable thinking and decision-making contributes to the process of creating solutions for current and emerging social, economic and environmental challenges. -Contribute practical solutions to real-world sustainability challenges. -Synthesize understanding of social, economic, and environmental systems and reason holistically.