Sustainable Environmental Design (SED) Program Learning Outcomes

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

Ability to develop constructive solutions

• Understand design, planning, policy, and organizing strategies for problem-solving
• Identify alternative courses of action for a given context
• Work collaboratively with diverse others to understand issues and concerns
• Articulate, illustrate, and present understandings

Understand how physical design can help create more livable, equitable, and ecologically sound places for everyone

• Employ basic graphic representation skills
• Apple basic design principles and methods
• Create spatial designs that balance human and ecological needs
• Identify one or two areas of focus within SED and gain background in those areas

Leadership within a range of professional environments

• Frame creative alternatives for the public
• Facilitate and participate in group processes
• Articulate decisions and points of agreement
• Identify and employ professional roles such as organizing, advocating, inspiring, managing, and facilitating