University of Massachusetts Amherst
AC-2: Learning Outcomes

At a division level, our School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) does include multiple academic programs with specified sustainability learning outcomes (e.g. the B.S. in Environmental Science, or the B.S. in Sustainable Food and Farming, or the B.S. in Sustainable Community Development). Similarly, at a divisional level the Isenberg School of Management (ISOM) includes courses that are required for students in all six of their undergraduate programs and that have specified sustainability learning outcomes. However, since neither of these sustainability learning outcome are explicitly specified at the DIVISIONAL level, we count the graduates from relevant programs below under Program Level Learning Outcomes and Course Level Learning Outcomes below.

Some of our Sustainability-Focused programs include: AS Arboriculture BS Environmental Conservation BS Environmental Science BA Geography + Earth Sciences AS Sustainable Food and Farming BA Resource Economics BA Landscape Arch and Regional Planning An example of a program with very clear and explicitly stated sustainability learning outcomes is our Building Construction Technologies B.S. degree, which has the following stated program outcomes. BCT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students graduating from our program will be able to... • Evaluate and specify building energy systems and materials with respect to their ecological impact and their contribution to sustainable design.   •  Understand physical, mechanical and environmental attributes of wood construction.   •  Apply a breadth of management skills and an understanding of key business aspects of the design, construction and materials supply industries. •  Contribute responsibly to a sustainable built environment.   In addition, some programs that we do not consider explicitly to be "Sustainability-Focused", DO include set of specified sustainability learning outcomes. For example: even though our Biology B.S. degree program has multiple course options related to sustainability, these courses are all electives. Yet the Biology program learning outcomes include the following: • Appreciation for the impact of biological science on the environment and society. • Appreciation for the diversity of living things and the diversity of approaches used to study them. • Appreciation for the interconnectedness of knowledge.

The following list of programs each includes a MINIMUM of at least one required sustainability-focused course. See the additional documentation for the particular courses associated with each program, as well as the number of graduates these programs produced in AY2017. BA Architecture BA Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies BS Biology AS Arboriculture BS Environmental Conservation BS Environmental Science BS Food Science BA Geography + Earth Sciences AS Sustainable Food and Farming BS Stockbridge School of Agriculture BS Animal Science | Management BA Economics BA Resource Economics BA Landscape Arch and Regional Planning BA Sociology BA Social Thought and Political Economy BS Civil and Environmental Engineering BBA Hospitality and Tourism Management BBA Management BBA Accounting BBA Finance BBA Marketing BBA Operations and Information Management BS Nutrition

We count all students who received a Bachelors or Associates degree from a program that included required courses which have at least one of the listed sustainability learning outcomes (some of the programs do also have sustainability learning outcomes for the program as a whole, but our approach for computing the numbers in AC-2 above was based on the required course method). Data are taken from the OIR Dept Profiles | Campus Detail | Degrees Awarded for 2016/17 (most recent year of data available).