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Students are expected to demonstrate
Critical thinking and problem solving skills including
- Ability to identify and search different sources of professional information
- Reading and comprehending information (different sources of written material as well as data sets)
- Ability to ask meaningful questions
- Understanding the role and importance of scientific research, policy, economic, and ethical issues for professional knowledge and decision making
- Ability to differentiate between relevant and less important aspects of an issue
- Ability to consider a range of realistic solutions to an environmental problem
- The ability to design and implement studies
- Ability to recognize biases
Analytical and quantitative reasoning skills including
- Knowledge and understanding of key elements in the research process
- Ability to follow laboratory manuals and safety protocols
- Recognizing potential sources of errors and biases in data
- Interpretation of data sets, including the use and limitation of statistical tools
- Ability to do back of the envelope calculations
- Visualization and interpretation of spatial data sets
Communication skills including
- Ability to develop a meaningful claim, and to support claim with an argument
- Ability to organize claims, ideas etc. in a meaningful way
- Visual communication of data sets (e.g. graphs, conceptual models, maps etc.)
- Ability to address in writing different audiences (scientific, professional, and lay)
- Preparing and delivering oral presentations to different audiences
Skills associated with moral and character development
- Recognition of personal value system
- Awareness of ethical issues associated with environmental issues
- Ethical reasoning
Knowledge/Content based outcomes
- Understand and apply legal and policy aspects of selected environmental issues
- Understand economic aspect of selected environmental issues
- Understand scientific concepts associated with causes and consequences of selected environmental issues
- Understand the ethical issues of environmental issues
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