| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.39 |
| Liaison | Patrice Langevin |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2023 |
Pitzer College
AC-3: Undergraduate Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.00 / 3.00 |
Susan
Phillips Director Robert Redford Conservancy |
Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused major, degree, or certificate program for undergraduate students?:
Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program:
A brief description of the undergraduate degree program:
The Environmental Analysis major offers students four tracks, including Sustainability and the Built Environment.
Student Learning Outcomes for All Majors in Environmental Analysis:
Understand and describe the complex social, scientific and humanistic aspects of environmental issues
Understand and apply both disciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis to environmental issues
Critically analyze, evaluate, and interpret scholarly arguments and popular discourse and be able to communicate this analysis to a variety of communities
Develop well-reasoned solutions to environmental predicaments, testing them against relevant criteria and standards
Be able to craft well-researched, informative and effective scholarly presentations
Contribute knowledge and action regarding environmental issues to the public through service learning, internships, community-based-research, and other activities
Additional Specific Student Learning Outcomes for the Separate Tracks within the major of Environmental Analysis
Sustainability and the Built Environment Track
Understand and analyze sustainable design in a holistic manner.
Develop conceptual frameworks for critical inquiry and environmental problem solving.
Apply design concepts and skills for sustainability and resilience.
Integrate scholarship and analyses to test spatial ideas.
Our students engage in projects linked to community benefit, campus sustainability, environmental justice, climate planning, environmental policy, environmental history, and the arts.
Website URL for the undergraduate degree program:
Name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (2nd program):
A brief description of the undergraduate degree program (2nd program):
Our students have the liberty to create special majors with a sustainability focus. These majors combine classes from various disciplines to create a themed course of study. We include here a list of sustainability themed majors for the 21-22 AY below: 16 OF 47 majors
Website URL for the undergraduate degree program (2nd program):
Name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (3rd program):
A brief description of the undergraduate degree program (3rd program):
Students often combine the EA major with an additional major in order to create a unique focus on sustainability within that field. Combined majors are not double majors, but rather majors where students are expected to blend courses from both. Common combined majors with EA include Art, Sociology, Organizational Studies, Critical Global Studies, Economics, and Political Studies.
Website URL for the undergraduate degree program (3rd program):
The name and website URLs of all other sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program(s):
Keck Science Department https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/majors/keck-science-department/
Biochemistry
Biology
Biophysics
Chemistry
Environmental Analysis
Human Biology
Management Engineering
Molecular Biology
Neuroscience
Organismal Biology
Physics
Science Management
Does the institution offer one or more sustainability-focused minors or concentrations for undergraduate students?:
Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration:
A brief description of the undergraduate minor or concentration:
A Minor in Environmental Analysis will be awarded upon completion of a minimum of seven courses, including EA 010 PZ -Introduction to Environmental Analysis, EA 086 PZ -Environmental Justice, and EA 030L KS -Science and the Environment (or EA 030 PO -Science and the Environment ). A relevant internship or field research project is also required. In accordance with College policy, there normally should be no overlap between the courses comprising a student’s major and minor.
Website URL for the undergraduate minor or concentration:
Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration (2nd program):
A brief description of the undergraduate minor or concentration (2nd program):
The minor concentration for EA requires seven classes. These consist of a mandatory intro and science classes, as well as an environmental justice course, plus four courses on the student's choosing. In addition, all environmental analysis minors need to engage in an environmentally focused internship of at least 70 hours within one semester.
Website URL for the undergraduate minor, concentration or certificate (2nd program):
Name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration (3rd program):
A brief description of the undergraduate minor or concentration (3rd program):
Our biology consists of one year introductory biology (usually BIOL 043L KS, BIOL 044L KS), or BIOL 040L KS and BIOL 044L KS or both semesters of the AISS course; one year general chemistry (usually CHEM 014L KS, CHEM 015L KS) or CHEM 029L KS, or CHEM 040L KS and CHEM 015L KS, or both semesters of the AISS course; four advanced courses in biology chosen in consultation with a member of the biology faculty. Must include at least two advanced courses with laboratory. Biology students are engaged in hands-on community based work with real-time consequences for local and global communities.
Website URL for the undergraduate minor or concentration (3rd program):
The name and website URLs of all other sustainability-focused undergraduate minors and concentrations:
Our additional sustainability-based minors are described in each departmental website below, emphasising bench science, ecology and interconnectedness, and environmental systems, climate change and vulnerability, the solutions to environmental problems. https://www.pitzer.edu/academics/majors/keck-science-department/
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
We have not included double majors in the above list.
We have not included double majors in the above list.
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