Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.55
Liaison Daryl Pierson
Submission Date Feb. 11, 2011
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Portland State University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.51 / 10.00 Shpresa Halimi
Academic Sustainability Program Manager
Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
212

The total number of courses offered :
8,430

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
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The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
http://www.pdx.edu/sustainability/sustainability-education
+ Date Revised: Feb. 28, 2011

A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Sust-focCourses.pdf
+ Date Revised: Feb. 28, 2011

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

See ER-5 for the methodology used to develop these numbers.

For academic year 2008-09, this is a representative sample, not a campus wide inventory.

Sustainability-Focused =
"E": Explicit-- any of the following criteria are met:
-Discusses sustainability in course description
-Sustainability included in learning objectives/course goals
-Major reading focuses explicitly on sustainability
-Sustainability in explicitly included in a major assignment or major section of the course


See ER-5 for the methodology used to develop these numbers.

For academic year 2008-09, this is a representative sample, not a campus wide inventory.

Sustainability-Focused =
"E": Explicit-- any of the following criteria are met:
-Discusses sustainability in course description
-Sustainability included in learning objectives/course goals
-Major reading focuses explicitly on sustainability
-Sustainability in explicitly included in a major assignment or major section of the course

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