PLOs

Textiles and Clothing

Program Learning Outcomes Textiles and Clothing*
  • Demonstrate understanding of the fundamental concepts in, the physical and social sciences while employing textiles and clothing as a meaningful context; 
  • Foster connections between the physical and social sciences using textiles and clothing as a meaningful context. 
  • Integrate knowledge among micro (e.g., fiber properties), meso (e.g., consumer behavior and interaction), and macro (e.g., cultural, environmental, and global economic) levels of analysis; 
  • Think critically and creatively abo

Sustainable Environmental Design

Program Learning Outcomes Sustainable Environmental Design Critical and holistic thinking
  • Identify and engage with a range of sustainability issues
  • Identify stakeholders and their perspectives
  • Understand contexts at different scales and evolving over time
  • Understand and articulate interrelationships between different professions & stakeholders
Ability to develop constructive solutions
  • Understand design, planning, policy, and organizing strategies for problem-solving
  • Identify alternative courses of action for a give

Nutrition Science

Program Learning Outcomes Nutrition Science
  • Demonstrate critical thinking skills to analyze data and interpret results in the nutritional sciences. 
  • Determine nutritional status of individuals in various life-cycle stages and/or with nutrition-related chronic diseases by applying knowledge of metabolism and nutrient functions, food sources and physiologic systems. 
  • Search for, critique and effectively communicate nutrition information. 
  • Describe social, multiethnic or environmental dimensions within nutrition and the life sciences.

Marine and Coastal Sciences

Program Learning Outcomes Marine and Coastal Sciences
  • Understand and integrate fundamental principles, including: development and evolution of modern ocean/earth systems; distribution, diversity and abundance of marine life, and special adaptations to ocean environments; impact of ocean circulation on climate, atmosphere and biosphere; biogeochemical cycles, ocean productivity; processes at terrestrial-marine interface and in the coastal zone; and anthropogenic impacts and management of ocean resources
  • Utilize the scientific method to answer questions and investigate the

Managerial Economics

Program Learning Outcomes Managerial Economics

Understanding of principles: 

  • Students will be skilled in critical thinking and decision-making, supported by economic principles and best practices in business. 

Strong quantitative skills: 

  • Students will have the ability to use data to inform economic and business decision making. 
  • Students will be able to put together quantitative reports as well as to evaluate reports put together by others. 

Effective communication: 

Landscape Architecture

Program Learning Outcomes Landscape Architecture Communication and design representation
  • Communicate about landscapes through written, oral, and graphic means 
  • Employ 2D and 3D landscape visualization both by hand and digitally 
  • Apply professional conventions in the production of construction documents 
  • Landscape Architecture history/theory
Identify major values and theories that drive landscape design 
  • Situate landscape architecture in the context of western and non-western traditions 
  • Apply t

International Agricultural Development

Program Learning Outcomes International Agricultural Development
  • Articulate the basic principles of plant biology, soil science, human nutrition, microeconomics, sociology, agricultural production, and community development.
  • Articulate the fundamental principles of at least one area of specialization from the following: Environmental Issues; Rural Communities, Trade and Economic Development; Plant or Animal Production.
  • Understand and utilize a variety of project design, and implementation and assessment tools including: SWOT Analysis, Problem trees, etc.; Logica

Hydrology

Program Learning Outcomes Hydrology
  • Comprehend the hydrologic cycle and related major water quantity and quality challenges and their relevance to human health and well-being, ecosystems, and the food supply.

Human Development

Program Learning Outcomes Human Development
  • Identify key issues and concepts relevant to the understanding of how human behavior develops over the life cycle and be able to explain them to a layperson. 
  • Generate a hypothesis using a conceptual model relevant to a developmental question and identify an appropriate test of that hypothesis. 
  • See how research findings can be applied in real-life settings.

reviewed: 2017

Global Disease Biology

Program Learning Outcomes Global Disease Biology Global Disease Issues in Animals, Humans, and Plants


Demonstrate an understanding of historical, cultural, and scientific antecedents to past, present, and emerging global health problems.

Demonstrate the ability to: