Sustainability Curriculum

University Goals Power Lifelong Learning (click title for details)

1.Social and Global Responsibilities. 

2.Specialized Knowledge. 

3. Intellectual Skills. 

4.Integrative Knowledge and Skills.  

5. Applied Knowledge. 

 SJSU's General Education Program has three goals: 

• To develop students’ core competencies for academic, personal, and professional pursuits. Goal 1 has five learning outcomes (PLOs 1-5).

• To enact the university’s commitment to diversity, inclusion, and justice, by ensuring that students have the knowledge and skills to serve and contribute to the well-being of local and global communities and the environment. Goal 2 has two learning outcomes (PLOs 6 and 7).

• To offer students integrated, multidisciplinary, and innovative study in which they pose challenging questions, address complex issues, and develop cooperative and creative responses. Goal 3 has two learning outcomes (PLOs 8 and 9).

Here are small sub-set of learning objectives to consider for your curriculum and student needs. 

• Art, MFA (Concentrations in Digital Media Art, Photography, Pictorial Art, and Spatial Art): PLO 3 Will demonstrate their commitment to valuing art’s role in offering cultural critique and addressing issues of social responsibility in a global society. As creative professionals, our graduates will, we hope, assume leadership roles in engaging with social and cultural change–as teachers, as critics, as spokespersons for important issues which cannot yet be imagined. As graduate students, our MFA candidates will demonstrate their understanding of the values of contemporary art in their visual and written responses to class assignments in area and interdisciplinary seminars and in the successful articulation of their ideas in exhibitions and artist statements.
• Business Administration, MBA: PLO 3A Understand the major issues facing multinational corporations in the management of their international operations-particularly those of an intercultural nature. PLO 3B Explain the ethical, legal, and social consequences that ensue when ethics and the law are disregarded in favor of other objectives.
• Educational Leadership, Ed.D: Value Equity & Diversity: PLO 2 Appreciate how social, cultural, political, and historical forces have influenced educational leadership and education policy locally and globally, with understanding of how student experiences in schools and educational outcomes of historically underserved populations have occurred.
• Engineering, MS: PLO 4 Appraise ethical, social, economic, and environmental implications of engineering practice in local and global contexts.
• Nursing, MS (Concentration in Family Nurse Practitioner): PLO 4 Support health promotion and disease prevention activities in developing and monitoring holistic plans of care for well and at-risk clients, considering access, quality and cost.
• Social Work, MSW: PLO 3 Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice

Find additional graduate learning outcomes: (the list below identifies other LO's to consider) 

• Archives & Records Administration, MARA: PLO 2, PLO 10
• Art, Art History & Visual Culture concentration (MA): PLO 1
• Artificial Intelligence, MS: PLO 4
• Audiology: PLO 2, 2A
• Biomedical Engineering, MS: PLO 2
• Biotechnology, MBT: PLO 1, ACRL Standard 5
• Chemical Engineering, MS: PLO 2
• Chicana and Chicano Studies, MA: PLO 1
• Counseling Guidance, MA: PLO 4
• Criminology, Global Criminology Concentration, MS: PLO 1
• Education, Special Education Concentration, MA: PLO 1