SMRMINU - Sustainable Mineral Resources
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Program Type
Undergraduate Minor
College
College of Engineering, College of Science
Career
Undergraduate
Program Description
The Sustainable Mineral Resources minor studies the interconnected issues surrounding the sustainable and responsible production and use of non-renewable mineral resources. Diverse perspectives are provided by faculty from disciplines across the Colleges of Engineering, Science, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, the Eller College of Management, and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Students engage in experiential learning on technical, economic, social, and environmental issues. They'll work with people across disciplines, cultures, and national borders and value differing beliefs as they implement data-driven decision making, effective communication, and critical thinking to bridge the gap between humans' ever-increasing demand for minerals and societies' changing priorities toward the environment and communities.
Learning Outcomes
- Incorporate verbal and written strategies including active listening to share information, defend ideas clearly and correctly, and learn from others.
- Design and assess evidence, inferences, assumptions, values, purposes, conclusions, and solutions of their own and others' inquiries through the lens of multiple disciplines.
- Recognize economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable impacts of the mineral resources lifecycle from the initial need to results over time.
- Advocate for their discipline's perspective with clear and relevant support while integrating the diverse opinions and ideas of other disciplines within the same context.
- Evaluate the reliability and validity of data and information from a variety of sources and perspectives, including gaps and biases, and ask questions that lead to accurate, actionable insights.
- Design and assess evidence, inferences, assumptions, values, purposes, conclusions, and solutions of their own and others' inquiries through the lens of multiple disciplines.
- Recognize economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable impacts of the mineral resources lifecycle from the initial need to results over time.
- Advocate for their discipline's perspective with clear and relevant support while integrating the diverse opinions and ideas of other disciplines within the same context.
- Evaluate the reliability and validity of data and information from a variety of sources and perspectives, including gaps and biases, and ask questions that lead to accurate, actionable insights.