Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.37
Liaison Laura Bain
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2013
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Furman University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.69 / 10.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
41

The total number of courses offered :
875

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

AST-150 China in Search of Sustainability*
AST-260 Environment and Health in India*
BIO-240 Regional Agricultural Science*
BIO-251 Introduction to Ethnobotany*
BIO-340 Ecology
BIO-343/EES-343 Environmental Systems
BIO-344 African Ecology
BIO-350 Infectious Disease Ecology*
BIO-401 Applied Plant Science
BUS-312 Sustainable Corporation
ECN-235/SOC-221 Population, Economy, and Society*
ECN-236 Economics of the Environment
EES-112 Environmental Science
EES-354-TS Field Study: Sierra Nevadas
EES-360 Geology and Sustainability of India
EST-301 Environment and Society
FYS-1126 Sustainability of Natural Resources
FYS-1128 The Energy Future of America
FYS-1168 Pristine Nature: Myth or Reality?
FYS-1193 Conservation and Culture
FYW-1109 Global Climate Change: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy*
FYW-1110 Global Water Issues*
FYW-1127 To Walk the Land
FYW-1129 Pristine Nature: Myth or Reality?*
FYW-1196 Eating as a Sustainable Act*
GGY-230 Principles of Geography
HSC-304 Community and Environmental Health
ML-223 Slow Food, Italian Style
MXP-140 Sustainable Food Practices
PHL-303 Environmental Ethics*
PHL-304 Ethics of Globalization
PSC-213 Environmental Policy
PSC-214 Environmental Law and Conservation Advocacy*
PSC-227 Environmental Politics in China*
PSC-282 Land Conservation Policy*
PSC-513 Conservation and Renewable Energy*
SOC-222 Population and Environment*
SUS-120 Principles of Sustainability
SUS-240 Human Systems
SUS-241 Social Systems
SUS-242 Dynamic Systems Modeling


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
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A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

* denotes courses not taught in the 2011-2012 academic year, but still listed in the university's course listings for that year.


* denotes courses not taught in the 2011-2012 academic year, but still listed in the university's course listings for that year.

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