| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.97 |
| Liaison | Holly Andersen |
| Submission Date | May 13, 2021 |
Bennington College
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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4.28 / 14.00 |
Holly
Andersen Project Manager Planning Office |
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings
| Undergraduate | Graduate | |
| Total number of courses offered by the institution | 400 | 10 |
| Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 27 | 2 |
| Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 60 | 2 |
Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
8.21
Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department
40
Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
11
Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
15
Documentation
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One
A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Please see the attached curriculum listing for all the classes offered at Bennington during the 19/20 school year. Each description is active on the college's website and provides all the information required for this credit, including description, instructor, and relation to sustainability. There is no comprehensive document that I can attach that has all of this information in it. Because every three terms our classes change, it is all on the live website platform. Please do click on the links to get course conductor name and description. Please see the below list in notes as well that includes the list of courses that incorporate sustainability that were original as well as pop up.
How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections
A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Each class was a counted as an individual class or offering. This includes pop up courses or lecture series. Please see information for additional courses here that are above and beyond what students sign up to take during term: https://curriculum.bennington.edu/spring2020/category/updates/ and here:https://curriculum.bennington.edu/fall2019/category/updates/
Optional Fields
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
These are the courses that are either sustainability focused or inclusive for academic year 2019/2020:
Adaptation or Extinction: Animals & Climate Change (BIO4222.01)
Advanced Class in Reducing Plastic Pollution Through Community Action (APA4159.01)
Climate Under Siege: Public Policy Forums@CAPA (APA2179.01)
Diversity of Coral Reef Animals (BIO2339.01)
Economy and Ecology (PEC2253.01)
Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) (BIO2109.01)
Gender and Agriculture: Market and Subsistence (APA2244.01)
Global Environmental Systems in the Anthropocene (ENV4123.01)
Introduction to Food Studies (APA2245.01)
Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed (ES2113.01)
Nature in the Americas (APA4148.01)
Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do About It (APA2176.01)
Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community (APA2269.01)
The River, The Forest, The Glacier: Classics of American Environmental Literature (LIT4139.02)
Understanding Food Insecurity in Bennington County 1 (APA2173.01)
And for the Spring 2020 term:
Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty (APA4239.01)
Every Day Everyday Climate Change (APA2181.02)
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology (BIO4239.01)
Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop (APA4160.02)
How to Build a Habitable Planet (PHY2118.01)
Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do About It (APA2176.01)
Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT (APA2241.01)
Rethinking Agriculture (POP2278.02)
Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World (MOD2163.01)
The Ocean, The Creek, The Lake: Writing Water (LIT2405.02)
Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape (APA2168.02)
Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy (ENV2173.01)
Fall Term Pop-Up classes:
Ethical Community Collaborations
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology
Gender and Agriculture
Introduction to Food Studies
Landscaping Leftovers: Painting and the Expanded Fields
Gender and Security in the 21st century
Design from Nature
Climate Under Siege Public Policy Forum at CAPA
What is Economics
Economics and Ecology
Economic Development
How to collaborate
Spring Pop-Up classes:
Rethinking Agriculture
Participation in Democracy, How can we make a difference?
Language in Greater Vermont, Diversity and Relationships
Peace Building Two--Be the change you want to see in the world
Peacebuilding
Women and Human Mobility
International Human Rights Law
Choice Theory
Creative Economics
Adaptation or Extinction: Animals & Climate Change (BIO4222.01)
Advanced Class in Reducing Plastic Pollution Through Community Action (APA4159.01)
Climate Under Siege: Public Policy Forums@CAPA (APA2179.01)
Diversity of Coral Reef Animals (BIO2339.01)
Economy and Ecology (PEC2253.01)
Forests: An Introduction to Ecology and Evolution (with lab) (BIO2109.01)
Gender and Agriculture: Market and Subsistence (APA2244.01)
Global Environmental Systems in the Anthropocene (ENV4123.01)
Introduction to Food Studies (APA2245.01)
Monitoring the Paran Creek Watershed (ES2113.01)
Nature in the Americas (APA4148.01)
Plastic Pollution and What Students Can Do About It (APA2176.01)
Social Kitchen: Ceramics, Food and Community (APA2269.01)
The River, The Forest, The Glacier: Classics of American Environmental Literature (LIT4139.02)
Understanding Food Insecurity in Bennington County 1 (APA2173.01)
And for the Spring 2020 term:
Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty (APA4239.01)
Every Day Everyday Climate Change (APA2181.02)
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology (BIO4239.01)
Food and Politics: A Food Citizens Methodology Workshop (APA4160.02)
How to Build a Habitable Planet (PHY2118.01)
Plastic Pollution and What You Can Do About It (APA2176.01)
Resilience and Food Access in Bennington, VT (APA2241.01)
Rethinking Agriculture (POP2278.02)
Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches that Moved the World (MOD2163.01)
The Ocean, The Creek, The Lake: Writing Water (LIT2405.02)
Tuesday Soup-er Club Intensive: Bennington Foodscape (APA2168.02)
Understanding PFOA: Science and Policy (ENV2173.01)
Fall Term Pop-Up classes:
Ethical Community Collaborations
Field Course in Coral Reef Biology
Gender and Agriculture
Introduction to Food Studies
Landscaping Leftovers: Painting and the Expanded Fields
Gender and Security in the 21st century
Design from Nature
Climate Under Siege Public Policy Forum at CAPA
What is Economics
Economics and Ecology
Economic Development
How to collaborate
Spring Pop-Up classes:
Rethinking Agriculture
Participation in Democracy, How can we make a difference?
Language in Greater Vermont, Diversity and Relationships
Peace Building Two--Be the change you want to see in the world
Peacebuilding
Women and Human Mobility
International Human Rights Law
Choice Theory
Creative Economics
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