Student Learning Outcomes

The student will demonstrate:

1. A complex, multi-system understanding of current global issues, including the cultural, economic, and political roots of our ecological and social crises.
2. Understanding of their role in their communities, including ability to participate constructively via teamwork and group facilitation.
3. Detailed observation skills and the ability to apply them for positive eco-social change.
4. Ability to engage in a range of operational modes, including analytical skills, creativity, and nature awareness.
5. Intellectual rigor and mastery of information and theoretical perspectives that support development of sustainable human culture.
6. Understanding of an integrative ecological design methodology that can be applied at all levels.
7. Commitment to bringing about a shift from a compartmentalized, short-term-results-oriented culture to a holistic, systems-oriented approach to planning and problem-solving.
8. Skills for implementing all of the above in creating a healthy, sustainable human culture in harmony with natural systems, at all scales and in urban, rural, and suburban contexts.
9. In the senior capstone project: An ability to apply the skills acquired in this program to a specific real-world or theoretical project.