Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.55
Liaison Daryl Pierson
Submission Date Feb. 11, 2011
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Portland State University
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.67 / 10.00 Shpresa Halimi
Academic Sustainability Program Manager
Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
423

The total number of courses offered :
8,430

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:

See attachment in ER-6


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

A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Sust-relCourses.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-Related courses =
"I+": Implicit +:
-Sustainability themes throughout the syllabus (course content, assignments, learning objectives, etc.), but not explicitly stated in a prominent way.

"I": Implicit:
-Syllabus makes connections between elements of sustainability in course description, learning objectives/course goals, major readings, assignments, but does not explicitly use the term "sustainability."


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-Related courses =
"I+": Implicit +:
-Sustainability themes throughout the syllabus (course content, assignments, learning objectives, etc.), but not explicitly stated in a prominent way.

"I": Implicit:
-Syllabus makes connections between elements of sustainability in course description, learning objectives/course goals, major readings, assignments, but does not explicitly use the term "sustainability."

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