Analyze and address problems:
- Identify core problems and assumptions, and evaluate different perspectives on our socio-ecosystems (i.e., “the environment”).
- Interrogate underlying assumptions and sources of information to navigate our complex and uncertain world.
- Evaluate core social and natural science concepts pertaining to the environment.
- Identify emergent conditions and risks, then seek out relevant information and skills in a self-directed, reflexive manner.
- Consider the wellbeing of self and others in the face of complex environmental problems.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of research designs and methods and then identify appropriate designs and methods when faced with a given problem.
- Choose a specialized method from a specific field and demonstrate competency in it by applying it to a given problem.
Acknowledge the importance of multiple ways of knowing as central to understanding the environment:
- Recognizing the importance of diverse disciplinary, socio-cultural, and embodied ways of knowing the environment.
- Analyze complex, interconnected socio-environmental systems and issues. Then, consider multidisciplinary, holistic approaches to addressing those issues.
- Exploring the questions of social justice that intersect with environmental harms and the climate emergency.
- Drawing upon experiential learning to enrich environmental knowledge and to translate that knowledge into concrete actions or deliverables.
Communicate to inform, propel and lead change:
- Maintain and communicate a constructive view of the future.
- Employ appropriate teamwork and project management skills to engage and complete group projects.
- Clearly, effectively, and compellingly communicate information and understandings in written, visual, digital, and oral formats for varied audiences (e.g., policy, technical, public, friends & family) to motivate human environmental attitudes, actions, and changes at multiple levels.
- Be prepared to critique, influence and/or participate in transforming decision-making to preserve the environment while balancing human needs:
- By critiquing environmental decision-making and governance across multiple scales (such as local, regional, national, and global) to understand their interconnections and implications
- By engaging in environmental decision-making and governance at various scales (personal, community, regional, national, global etc.) as a changemaker.