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Student Learning Outcomes for the Environmental Science Major

  1. Students can explain major local, regional and global environmental issues and engage in the world as effective and literate citizens.
  2. Students will demonstrate advanced capabilities for interpreting and communicating written and oral information related to environmental issues appropriate to both professional and lay audiences
  3. Students will demonstrate competence in qualitative, quantitative, and spatial methodological and analytical skills to answer important questions in environmental science.
  4. Students will be able to synthesize and integrate diverse methodological and interdisciplinary subjects.
  5. Students will formulate, design, conduct, and complete a program of independent research that uses appropriate techniques drawn from the natural sciences, social sciences, or humanities.
  6. Students will demonstrate competence in locating, comprehending, and critically analyzing interdisciplinary scholarly literature.

Willamette University

Environmental Science