Endicott College
AC-1: Academic Courses

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Methodology for Assessing Sustainability Courses and Courses Containing Sustainability Endicott is committed to supporting the personal and professional development of its students, preparing them to assume meaningful roles within the greater community both domestically and internationally. As a result, sustainability topics including social wellbeing, economic prosperity, and environmental health contribute to the currency of the curriculum. Our undergraduate majors ALL include several internships and a student thesis or design project. To assess the courses we took downloaded the complete catalog and evaluated each course based on our detailed knowledge of the course or its description. Direct knowledge of the courses comes from a number of source including: faculty have participated in our “incorporate sustainability into your course” training, observation of student work, direct interaction with students in student project work (see the bottom of this site for a list of current examples of possible student projects http://www.endicott.edu/Sustainability-at-Endicott/Education-Engagement.aspx ). Internships and thesis were counted in departments/majors where we have direct knowledge that students have undertaken sustainability-related internships and observation of thesis presentation at the college-wide thesis day and/or a role in advising students. Student theses with sustainability span departments from education to sports management and are usually focused on environmental sustainability. Student theses in criminal justice and psychology very often include issues related to social wellbeing. We know too that there are many courses that we have not captured. Many of these are in the arts where nature and the environment are often the topics for art, graphic design, and photography. In addition seminar courses or courses that are taught as special topics were not counted. For example there is a special topics course on Climate Change this semester, but it was not included because it was not in the catalog. Sustainability courses are courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenge through techniques such as science, policy, business, or design. A course that includes sustainability is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability issues throughout the course.

The only course that was counted as multiple offerings was the Learning Strategies course (LST100). This course was counted as 5 because 5 sections are known to focused on sustainability (course names include: Trash, The Ecology of Food (2 sections), Economic Inequality, Race in American Society and Culture (3 sections), Liberty and Justice (3 sections).