Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.08
Liaison John Pumilio
Submission Date July 17, 2013
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Colgate University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.78 / 10.00 John Pumilio
Director of Sustainability
Sustainability Office
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
23

The total number of courses offered :
1,295

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

Biology
Tropical Ecology/Tropical Ecology Extended Study (BIOL 332/332E)

Economics
Environmental Economics (ECON 228)
Natural Resource Economics (ECON 328)
Seminar in Resource and Environmental Economics (ECON 428)

Environmental Studies
Nature, Technology, and the Human Prospect (ENST 316)
Food (SOAN/ENST/CORE 319)
Renewable Energy: Research and Implementation/Alternative Energy:
Research and Implementation in Norway Extended Study (ENST 336/ENST 336E)
Managing Complexity: America’s Public Lands (ENST 344)
Community-based Study of Environmental Issues (ENST 390)

Geography
Human Impact on the Environment (undergoing name-change to Earth, Society, and Sustainability) (GEOG 121)
Climate and Society (GEOG 205)
Globalizing East Asia: Comparative Economic Geography (GEOG 313)
Population Issues and Analysis (GEOG 314)
Globalization, Development, and Environment (GEOG 320)
Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change (GEOG 321)
Water and Society (GEOG 325)

Geology
Earth Resources (GEOL/CORE 120S)

Liberal Arts Core Curriculum (spanning multiple departments/programs)
Energy and Sustainability (CORE 101S)
Ecology, Ethics, and Wilderness (CORE 114S)
Earth Resources (GEOL/CORE 120S)
Climate Change and Human History (CORE 123S)
Ecology and the Quality of the Environment (CORE 159S)
Food (SOAN/ENST/CORE 319)

Religion
Religion, Science, and the Environment (RELG 236)

Sociology & Anthropology
Nature, Culture, and Politics (SOAN 245S)
Food (SOAN/ENST/CORE 319)


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