Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	68.35
Liaison	Alexis Reyes
Submission Date	Oct. 29, 2015
Executive Letter	Download

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Pomona College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	9.67 / 14.00	Kevin Quevedo SIO Staff SIO

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Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses with sustainability content::

	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution	797
Number of sustainability courses offered	35
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	68

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):

Number of years covered by the data:

One

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):

STARS Sustainability Courses 14-15 (2).xlsx

An inventory of the institution's course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):

Below is a list of all of Pomona College's courses with sustainability content. For the comprehensive list that includes course descriptions, please refer to the linked file: STARS Sustainability Courses 14-15 (1).xlsx. ANTH051 Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology ANTH157 Anthropology of Chinese Society ARHI179 Modern Art History and Sustainability ARHI179 PO-01 Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability. ARHI184 A Social History of American Art BIOL 103 Invasion Biology BIOL 132 Vertebrate Biology BIOL 144 Comparative Endocrinology with Laboratory BIOL 166 Plant Biology BIOL 180-Microbial Ecology BIOL 181-Fire Ecology in Southern California Ecosystems BIOL 189 Urban Ecology BIOL001C PO-01 Biology of Garden Plants BIOL041E PO-01 Intro Ecology & Evolutionary Bio w/Lab BIOL104 PO-01 Conservation Biology BIOL106 PO-01 Aquatic Ecology BIOL121 PO-01 Insect Ecology & Behavior w/Lab BIOL189S PO-01 Urban Ecology CHEM106 PO-01 Environmental Chemistry CHEM110A Organic Chemistry CHEM161 Advanced Analytical Chemistry CHNT 166: Chinese Fiction Old and New EA 010 PO-01 Intro to Environmental Analysis EA 030 PO-01 Science and the Environment EA 085 PO-01 Food, Land & the Environment EA 170 EA US Environmental History EA 171 PO-01 Water in the West EA 172 Crisis Management EA 180 PO-01 Green Urbanism EA 190 PO-01 Environmental Seminar EA 191 PO-01 Thesis in Environmental Analysis EA 20 Nature Culture Society EA173 Ecology of Streams, Lakes and Wetlands ECON 101 Macroeconomic Theory ECON 102 Microeconomic Theory ECON 123 International Economics ECON 128 PO-01 Energy Economics, & Policy ECON 128 PO-01 Energy Economics, & Policy ECON First Year Seminar ECON051 Principles of Macroeconomics ECON107 Applied Econometrics ECON124 Water, Resources, Economics and Management ECON125 PO-01 Natural Resource Econ & Policy ECON127 PO-01 Environmental Economics ECON128 Energy Economics and Policy ECON155 Law and Economics ECON52 Principles of Microeconomics ENGL097 PO-01 Religion/Literature/Environment ENGL170P PO-01 Early Modern Environments FREN 103 PO - Frenchness: May '68-2008 and beyond GEOL20A: Geohazards GEOL020D PO-01 Paleontology/Evolution Earth's Biosphere GEOL020E PO-01 Oceanography GEOL111A PO-01 Introduction to GIS GEOL112 Remote Sensing of the Earth's Environment GEOL120 Geochemistry GEOL127 PO-01 Mineralogy w/Laboratory GEOL129 PO-01 Geophysics w/ Laboratory GEOL152 Climate Change Intro to Geology GEOL183 Sedimentology GEOL20B Introduction to Geology: Planetary Geology GRMT131 Topics in Public German Discourse GRMT170 The Culture of Nature HIST100F PO-01 Food/Culture/Power in Asia/Pacif HIST100T PO-01 Global Environmental Histories ID 001 An Intro to Ecodrama ID 001 PO-02 Critical Inquiry Seminar - Arts Immersion: Air ID 001 PO-06 Critical Inquiry Seminar - Cold Places ID 1 Punk LGCS010 Introduction to Linguistics MS049 Intro to Media Studies MS161 Image and Revolution: Japanese New Wave Cinema and Beyond MS50 Introduction to Film PE 010 PO-01 Hiking/Geocaching PE 012 PO-01 Beginning Backpacking PE 017 PO-01 Intro to Wilderness Survival PE 037 JP-01 Rock Climbing PHIL038 PO-01 Bioethics PHIL7: Discovery, Invention, and Progress PHYS017 PO-01 Physics in Society: Energy Policy PHYS101: Modern Physics PHYS175: Thermal Physics PHYS41 General Physics PHYS70 Space, Time, Quanta, and Entropy POLI 111 Green Political Theory POLI 165 Latin American Politics POLI001B Modern Political Theory POLI002 American Political Thought POLI008 Intro to International Relations POLI039 PO-01 Politics of Environmental Justice POLI086 International Organizations, Communication and Power POLI149 Science, Technology, and Public Policy POLI97: Writing About Justice POLI060 The Global Politics of Food and Agriculture PSYC051 Intro to Psychology PSYC163 Emotion w/ Lab PSYC180D Seminar in Affective Neuroscience RLST155 Religion, Ethics and Social Practice RLST166A PO-01 Divine Body: Religion and the Environment RUSS011 Contemporary Russian Culture and Society RUST080 Russian Literature and Culture from 1900 to the Present SOC 055 PO-01 Population & the Environment SOC050 Introduction to Sociology SOC90 Global Systems and Society THEA001G Acting for Social Change

Date Revised: Jan. 6, 2016

Pomona College requested that AASHE Staff correct a mistake in this reporting field for the reason specified below.

Previous Value: Course Title (see attached for more information): Affective Neuroscience ANTH001 PZ Intro Archeology and Bio Anthropology ANTH012 PZ-01 Native Americans & Environments ANTH051 Intro to Anthropology ANTH056 PZ-01 Run to the Forest ANTH157 Anthropology of Chinese Society ANTH Intro to Sociocultural Anthropology Applied Econometrics ARCN110 SC-01 Artists Materials, Ancient+Modern ARHI155 SC-01 History of Gardens, East & West ARHI179 PO-01 Modern Architecture, City, Landscape and Sustainability. ARHI179 Modern Art History and Sustainability ART 175 -PZ Object Ecologies Art 180- PZ Environmental Robotics ARHI 184 Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: A Social History of American Art, 1900 to the Present ART126 PZ01 Special Topics Photo: Landscape BIOL001C PO-01 Biology of Garden Plants BIOL041E PO-01 Intro Ecol & Evolutionary Bio w/Lab BIOL082L KS-01 Plant Biotech in Greener World BIOL104 PO-01 Conservation Biology BIOL106 PO-01 Aquatic Ecology BIOL108 HM-01 Ecology & Environmental Biology BIOL109 HM-01 Evolutionary Biology BIOL121 PO-01 Insect Ecology & Behavior w/Lab BIOL 132 Vertebrate Biology BIOL 139 KS-01 Applied Ecology and Conservation BIOL 189 Urban Ecology BIOL 144 Comparative Endocrinology BIOL145 KS-01 Evolution BIOL146L KS-01 Ecology w/Lab BIOL159 KS-01 Natural Resource Management BIOL165 KS-01 Advanced Topics: Environmental Biology BIOL 166 Plant Biology BIOL169L KS-01 Marine Ecology BIOL176 KS-01 Tropical Ecology BIOL 180-Microbiol Ecology BIOL 181-Fire Ecology BIOL189S PO-01 Urban Ecology CHEM070L KS-01 Land, Air, & Ocean Science CHEM106 PO-01 Environmental Chemistry CHEM193D HM-01 Atmospheric Chem/Geoengineering / Special Topics in Chemistry CHNT 166: Chinese Fiction Old and New Contemporary Russian Culture and Society EA 010 PO-01 Intro to Environmental Analysis EA 010 PZ-01 Intro to Environmental Analysis EA 20 Nature Culture Society EA 030 PO-01 Science and the Environment EA 030L KS-01 Science and the Environment EA 031 PZ-01 Restoring Nature EA 055L KS-01 Phys Geography & Geomorphology EA 082 PZ-01 GIS Applications in Env Science EA 085 PO-01 Food, Land & the Environment EA 086 PZ-01 Environmental Justice EA 100 KS-01 Global Climate Change EA 103L KS-01 Principles of Soil Science EA 104 KS-01 Oceanography EA 107 PZ-01 Design Workshop: Sense of Place EA 133 PZ-01 Case Studies Sustainable Blt Env EA 134 PZ-01 Sustainable Place Studio EA 140 PZ-01 The Desert as a Place EA 146 PZ-01 Environmental Education EA 150 PZ-01 Critical Environmental Analysis EA 151 PZ-01 Campus Cultural Resources Conser EA 156 PZ-01 Hustle & Flow: CA Water Policy EA 162 PZ-01 Gender,Environment & Development EA 165 PZ-01 Ghost Towns: Built Environment EA 170 EA US Environmental History EA 171 PO-01 Water in the West EA 172 Public Lands and American Culture EA 180 PO-01 Green Urbanism EA 186 PZ-01 EJ in the Inland Empire EA 190 PO-01 Environmental Seminar EA 191 PO-01 Thesis in Environmental Analysis EA 197 PZ-01 EA Senior Thesis Seminar ECON First Year Seminar ECON52 Principles of Microeconomics ECON 101 Macroeconomic Theory ECON 102 ECON 118 CM-01 Processes of Env Policymaking ECON 123 International Economics ECON125 PO-01 Natural Resource Econ & Policy ECON127 PO-01 Environmental Economics ECON 128 PO-01 Energy Economics, & Policy ECON140 PZ-01 Economic Development ECON142 CM-01 Pol/Econ of Nat Resource Policy ECON171 CM-01 Environmental Economics ECON 181 PZ-01 Agricultural Economics ECON Principles of Macroeconomics Emotion w/ Lab Energy Policy Economics ENGL097 PO-01 Religion/Literature/Environment ENGL170P PO-01 Early Modern Environments ENGR013 HM-01 Energy Systems Engineering FHS 010 CM-08 Freshman Humanities Seminar - Human Responses to Climate Chng FHS 010 CM-11 Freshman Humanities Seminar - Nature and Society FREN 103 PO - Frenchness: May '68-2008 and beyond Geochemistry GEOL 20: Geohazards GEOL020D PO-01 Paleontology/Evol Earth's Biosph GEOL020E PO-01 Oceanography GEOL Climate Change Intro to Geology GEOL111A PO-01 Introduction to GIS GEOL127 PO-01 Mineralogy w/Laboratory GEOL129 PO-01 Geophysics w/ Laboratory GOVT120E CM-01 Environmental Leadership Green Political Theory GRMT Public German Discourse GRMT170 The Culture of Nature HIST016 PZ-01 Environmental History HIST100F PO-01 Food/Culture/Power in Asia/Pacif HIST100T PO-01 Global Environmental Histories HIST171 CM-01 American Suburbia & its Conseq HSA 010 HM-07 Critical Inquiry - The Economics of Oil and Energy HSA 010 HM-10 Critical Inquiry - People and Other Animals ID 001 PO-02 Critical Inquiry Seminar - Arts Immersion: Air ID 001 PO-06 Critical Inquiry Seminar - Cold Places ID 1 Punk ID 001 An Intro to Ecodrama IIS 038 PZ-01 Nature,Movemnt,Meditation:QiGong IIS 141 PZ-01 Agri Econ Develop in Third World International Economics Intro to International Relations Intro to Media Studies Intro to Psychology Introduction to Geology: Planetary Geology (GEOL 20a) Introduction to Linguistics Introduction to Sociology Latin American Politics MS 119 PZ-01 Robotics, Dig Media & Environmt MS161 Image and Revolution: Japanese New Wave Cinema and Beyond MS50 Introduction to Film ONT 101 PZ-01 Critical Community Studies ONT 110 PZ-01 Healing Ourselves & Communities Organic Chemistry 110a and 110b PE 010 PO-01 Hiking/Geocaching PE 012 PO-01 Beginning Backpacking PE 017 PO-01 Intro to Wilderness Survival PE 037 JP-01 Rock Climbing Phil 7: Discovery, Invention, and Progress. PHIL038 PO-01 Bioethics PHYS017 PO-01 Phys in Society: Energy Policy PHYS41 General Physics PHYS Space, Time, Quanta, and Entropy Physics 101: Modern Physics Physics 175: Thermal Physics POLI039 PO-01 Pol of Environmental Justice POLI135 SC-01 Political Economy of Food POLI135L SC-01 Political Economy of Food Lab POLI Modern Political Theory POLI American Political Thought POLI97: Writing About Justice Politics 86, International Organizations, Communication and Power Politics of Community Design POST114 HM-01 Compar Environmental Politics POST181 PZ-01 Agriculture/Political Rebellion Remote Sensing Religion, Ethics and Social Practice RLST166A PO-01 Divine Body: Rel and Environment Science, Technology, and Public Policy Sedimentology SOC 055 PO-01 Population & the Environment Soc 90: Global Systems and Society SOSC180 HM-01 Tropical Forests: Policy & Prac The Great Utopia: 20thC Russ Lit Theatre for Social Change WRIT001 HM-13 Introduction to Academic Writing - NaturalRelig/ReligiousNaturalism WRIT050 SC-12 Critical Analysis - Eco-Criticism Invasion Biology Advanced Analytical Chemistry Law and Economics

Explanation: Additional information was added to the previous list to include an undergraduate indicator as well as a course description when necessary.

The website URL where the inventory of course offerings with sustainability content is publicly available:

http://www.pomona.edu/administration/sustainability/action-plan/initiatives/education/courselist.aspx

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the course inventory:

Courses were identified as being sustainability-focused or sustainability-related if the description available in the course catalog met the criteria for the STARS definitions, or if they were self-reported as such by department heads or faculty members.

How did the institution count courses with multiple offerings or sections in the inventory?:

Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted (if different from the options outlined above):

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Which of the following course types were included in the inventory?:

	Yes or No
Internships	No
Practicums	No
Independent study	No
Special topics	---
Thesis/dissertation	No
Clinical	No
Physical education	Yes
Performance arts	Yes

Does the institution designate sustainability courses in its catalog of course offerings?:

Does the institution designate sustainability courses on student transcripts?:

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.

STARS v2.0

Pomona College AC-1: Academic Courses

Pomona College
AC-1: Academic Courses