Students who are engaged in this course and finish all the assignment will be expected to be able to:

• identify many scientific approaches and complimentary forms of inquiry
• characterize traditional disciplines and extra-disciplinary groups (such as NGOs, foundations, or private enterprise) by their underlying assumptions about the roles of science and advanced inquiry
• describe how paradigmatic sciences change happens
• give working examples of how values are incorporated into some types of inquiry
• provide an example of how they have used strong inference in their previous work
• analyze and evaluate the importance of crucial paradigmatic assumptions to different forms of inquiry as currently practiced in the School
• compare scientific method, other forms of inquiry, management and law to the level of proof required; relate these to decision standards such as SMS and PP
• describe several working models of transdiciplinary cooperation that have been applied to environmental problems