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Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcome Assessment Criteria
Competency 1: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Literacy
1.2 Use evidence-informed climate adaptation strategies to develop or select feasible solutions, recommendations, and action plans
  • Locate reliable sources of evidence for climate adaptation strategies
  • Assess reliability and validity of the evidence informing strategies
  • Compare and contrast relevant merits of a range of adaptation strategies
  • Apply strategies to inform and evaluate solutions, recommendations, and/or action plans
1.3 Examine the role of reconciliation as a component of climate adaptation and low carbon resiliency
  • Describe the purpose and history of reconciliation
  • Describe and apply the process by which worldviews and subjectivity guide perspectives on science and social issues
  • Identify reliable and accurate sources for Indigenous climate adaptation and resilience knowledge and concepts
  • Establish a working model of the relationship between reconciliation and resilience
Competency 2: Critical, Creative, and Transdisciplinary Thinking
2.3 Integrate contributions (ideas and actions) from multiple disciplines to generate new ideas and concepts and to support recommendations, strategies, and solutions
  • Shows evidence of contributions from multiple disciplines
  • Integrates evidence to generate new ideas and concepts
  • Articulates the relationship between different ideas and constructs
2.4 Apply transdisciplinary thinking to complex climate-related problems and issues
  • Applies a systems-thinking perspective and assesses evidence of where this approach has been successful 
  • Explores and identifies relationships between different disciplinary perspectives or understanding relevant to the issue or problem or question
Competency 4: Adaptive
Leadership
4.3 Facilitate multi- and trans-disciplinary discussions and collaboration
  • Demonstrates knowledge and practice of group dynamics and facilitation
  • Redirects conflict into productive problem solving
  • Seeks to understand multiple and alternative perspectives
Competency 5: Communication and Knowledge Mobilization
5.2 Demonstrate competence in translating and mobilizing climate adaptation knowledge for use by multiple stakeholder groups
  • Creates and adapts materials in creative ways to accommodate various needs, competencies, expectations, and cultural values 
  • Identifies and addresses multiple audiences
Competency 6: Change Making Orientation
6.3 Apply lateral, creative, and future thinking to the field of climate adaptation
  • Identifies promising practices in the climate risk and resilience field
  • Incorporates creativity and circumspection in combining traditional approaches with novel approaches (e.g., low carbon resilience) and commitments (e.g., equity)
  • Identifies needs and opportunities for change 
  • Describes and applies principles and practices of transformational leadership
  • Applies design thinking to solution generation
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