Nurlita Pertiwi, Gufran Darma Dirawan
The knowledge of environmental issues is one of parameters that affect the behavior of the student. This study try to analyze the issues related to the knowledge of environmental issues of the graduate students in Engineering Faculty Universitas Negeri Makassar. The sample of this research is 150 first year students in graduate program of engineering faculty. There are three variables in this research are factual, procedural and conceptual of knowledge, while environmental issues are global and local issues. Data were collected by true false questionnaire and analyzed by using descriptive analysis. The results showed that the scores of the students knowledge about local issues is higher than the global issues. The highest value is environment factual, while the lowest value on the procedural aspect of environmental knowledge. It is also indicated that the information of resources are still limited. Therefore, global issues still has minimal information. In addition, this article suggest that curriculum in Engineering Faculty should integrate with knowledge about local and global issues in each course due to improvement of environmental knowledge. © Serials Publications.
Engineering Faculty, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia
