Learning Outcomes Environmental Governance

The BAH Environmental Governance is rooted in core concepts from geography and political science and additional insight is built through courses from a range of social science and humanities disciplines.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Governance program will demonstrate the ability to:

  1. Analyze decision-making processes that shape human interactions with the environment, including social responses to environmental hazards and human impacts on environmental systems.
  2. Examine the scope and evolution of environmental governance as an evolving discipline and approach to environmental management.
  3. Evaluate diverse sources of knowledge, arguments, and approaches pertinent to exploring how political-economic processes relate to environmental issues.
  4. Collect and analyze geographical data and interpret its significance within the context of environmental governance.
  5. Communicate geographical concepts and spatial data related to corporate sustainability, environmental law, environmental policy, and environmental social movements using oral, written, and visual forms.
  6. Analyze, evaluate, and reflect on solutions to environmental governance questions in diverse settings (e.g. classroom, lab, field, community).
  7. Investigate complex real-world challenges affecting local, regional, and global communities to help formulate solutions in addressing human-environment issues.
  8. Examine the importance of holistic, integrative human-environment perspectives in developing solutions for environmental governance.

    Co-op Specific Learning Outcomes
  9. Apply inquiry, analysis and problem-solving skills to analyze and address environmental governance issues in a real-world and professional setting.
  10. Demonstrate personal and professional integrity by considering diverse views and geographic perspectives.
  11. Reflect on work-integrated learning and its relation to theories and concepts in environmental governance

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