Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.15
Liaison Yumiko Jakobcic
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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STARS v1.0

Grand Valley State University
ER-8: Sustainability Courses by Department

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.69 / 7.00 Norman Christopher
Executive Director
Sustainable Community Development Initiative
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The number of departments that offer at least one sustainability-related or -focused course :
30

The total number of departments that offer courses:
41

A list of departments that offer sustainability courses:

African-African American Studies
Accounting
Anthropology
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Criminal Justice
Communications
East Asian Studies
Economics
Engineering
Finance
Geography and Planning
Geology
Honors College
Hospitality and tourism
History
Latin American Studies
Liberal Studies
Middle East Area Studies
Management
Marketing
Natural Resources management
Occupational health and Safety
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Social Work
Women and Gender Studies
Writing


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of departments that offer sustainability 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:

4 of the 41 departments we list are unit programs, and not official departments. Tally by prefix shows that 36 of 90 prefixes available are used for sustainability courses (40%), while 75% of departments have at least 1 course related to sustainability.


4 of the 41 departments we list are unit programs, and not official departments. Tally by prefix shows that 36 of 90 prefixes available are used for sustainability courses (40%), while 75% of departments have at least 1 course related to sustainability.

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