program outcomes assessment

• 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

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

Demonstrate the ability to:

• Describe molecular structures associated with food carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, and relate structure to their food functionality.
• Describe major food chemical reactions (e.g.

• Demonstrate acquired knowledge in physical science and mathematics and an in-depth understanding of principles in fiber and polymer materials science; 
• Utilize analytical skills and qualitative and quantitative methodologies in scientific inquiries and problem solving; 
• Formulate questions critically, define goals and examine issues creatively through review of literature, design and execution of experiments, analysis of data and evaluations of results;  
• Evaluate issues and problems i

• Critically evaluate and interpret scientific data, information, and lab results. 
• Write and clearly present key aspects of fundamental toxicology and the discipline’s relevancy to real-world issues. 
• Utilize scientific literature and databases to identify information needed to understand and effectively communicate aspects of toxicology. 
• Master a broad set of [toxicology] knowledge concerning the fundamentals in the basic areas of toxicology. 
• Demonstrate an understanding

• Evaluate the validity and limitations of scientific theories and claims about the environment
• Demonstrate understanding of the interactions among physical, biological, chemical and human components of the environment
• Formulate tests of environmental questions, acquire data, and apply scientific methodology to answer these questions
• Ttranslate environmental problems into policy solutions
• Compose and deliver informed positions on current environmental problems to the public

• Attain a basic knowledge of the principles of plant growth and development.
• Attain an understanding of environmental planning and landscape management processes involving plants and people in natural settings.
• Attain a basic understanding of the interrelationships among the various components of the managed landscape ecosystem, including plants, people, animals, soil, water, air, and microorganisms.
• Aarticulate the fundamental principles of ecological restoration, the different stages of t

• Understand, evaluate and apply social scientific principles to organizational, local, regional, national and transnational development issues. 
• Interpret and analyze oral information, written texts, and data sets regarding community, regional, and organizational development. 
• Work individually and within groups to produce written and oral analysis of development problems. 
• Make oral presentations of research findings to various audiences. 
• Teach skills necessary

• 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.

• Explain the physical laws governing the structure and evolution of atmospheric phenomena spanning a broad range of spatial and temporal scales; 
• Apply mathematical tools to study atmospheric processes; 
• Explain the principles behind, and use of, meteorological instrumentation; 
• Describe, analyze and create graphical depictions of meteorological information;
• Demonstrate critical and analytical skills to interpret and predict weather systems using weather products (model results, maps