Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.15
Liaison Laura Young
Submission Date April 14, 2011
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Michigan State University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.04 / 10.00 Ashley Hale
Former Sustainability Studen Intern
Campus Sustainability
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
63

The total number of courses offered :
6,051

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

ACR 187 Introduction to Sustainability
ACR 202 Problem Solving in the Community, Agriculture and Environmental Systems
ACR 204 Energy Issues in Natural Resource Management
ACR 287 Issues in Sustainability
ACR 387 Sustainability Practicum
ACR 472 Selected Topics in Sustainability
ACR 487 Sustainability Portfolio Capstone
ACR 824 Sustainable Development: Measuring Socioeconomic Well-being
ACR 846/RD 836 Law of Environmental Regulation
ACR 848/RC 823 Community-based Natural Resource Management in International Development
ACR 853 The Industrialization of American Agriculture
ACR 857 Culture and Rurality
ACR 878 Tourism, Conservation and Development
ACR 894 Field Practicum in Sustainability Studies
AEC 829 Economics of Environmental Resources
AEC 891 Topics in Agricultural Economics
AEC 923 Advanced Environmental and Resource Economics
AMB 405 Corporate Environmental Management
ATD 431 Global Context for Sustainable Design
BE 230 Engineering Analysis of Biological Systems
BE 469 Sustainable Bioenergy Systems
CSS 101 Intro to Crop Science
CSS 124 Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
CSS 294 Issues in International Agriculture
CSS 424 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems: Integration and Synthesis
CSS 431 International Agricultural Systems
EEP 255 Ecological Economics
EGR 310 Sustainable Systems Analysis
ENT 205 Pests, Society and Environment
ENT 319 Introducation to Earth Systems Science
ESA320 Environmantal Planning and Management
ESA343 Community Food and Agricultural Systems
ESA 450 Smart Grow and Strategic Land Use Decision Making
FOR 404 Forest Ecology
FOR 404L Forest Ecology Laboratory
FOR 408 Forest Resource Management
FOR 804 Forest Ecology
FW 417 Wetland Ecology and Management
GBL 395 Law, Public Policy and Business
GBL 395H Law, Public Policy and Business (Honors)
GBL 460 International Business Law
GBL 480 Environmental Law and Sustainability for Business: From Local to Global (I)
GEO 402 Agricultural Climatology
GLG 412 Glacial Geology and the Record of Climate Change
HRT 242 Passive Solar Greenhourses for Protected Cultivation
HRT 413 Sustainable Landscape Practices
HRT 417 Sustainable Sites and Environmental Landscape Practices
ISB 201 Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability
ISB 201L Insects, Globalization, and Sustainability (Lab)
JM/LB 459 Sustainability
LAW 566K Climate Change Law and Policy
LAW 566L Climate Law and Policy
LB 492 Senior Seminar: Renewable Energy
MBA 806 Social Issues in Management
MKT 805 Marketing Management
NSC 448 Ecology, Law and Economics
PDC Integrated Approach to Planning, Design and Construction
RCAH 295 Special Topics: Ethics of Tourism and Sustainable Development (in Costa Rica)
RCAH 295B Engagement and Relection Course (Costa Rica)
RD 866 Economics of Renewable Resources
RD 869 Community and Conservation
SCM 815 Business, the Environment, and Sustainability
SCM 843 Sustainable Supply Chain Management


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This list was compiled by searching the Schedule of Courses posted for spring 2010 semester. The search results were compiled and validated to make sure the courses contained sustainability content.


This list was compiled by searching the Schedule of Courses posted for spring 2010 semester. The search results were compiled and validated to make sure the courses contained sustainability content.

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