Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.23
Liaison Rachael Wein
Submission Date July 11, 2014
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Smith College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.09 / 14.00 Joanne Benkley
Assistant Director
Center for the Environment
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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
Number of sustainability courses offered
Number of courses offered that include sustainability

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):
+ Date Revised: July 27, 2015

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):
An inventory of the institution's course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
AMS 201 Intro to the Study of American Society and Culture AMS 555 American Society and Culture ANT 241 Anthropology of Development ANT 353 Topics in Anthropology: Urban Anthropology ART 267 Gender, Sexuality and Built Envionment ART 285 Intro to Architecture BIO 101 Modern Biology for the Concerned Citizen BIO 103 Economic Botany: Plants and Human Affairs BIO 108Y Biogeochemical Cycling in the Avery Brook Watershed: a Research Course BIO 260 Invertebrate Diversity and Lab BIO 362 Animal Behavior BIO 364 Plant Ecology & Lab BIO 370 Microbial Diversity ECO 211 Economic Development ECO 230 Urban Economics ECO 233 Free Market Economics ECO 311 Seminar: Topics in Economic Development: The Political Economy of Development in Africa ECO 362 Seminar: Population Economics: the Economics of Aging EGR 290 Engineering Thermodynamics EGR 290 Engineering Thermodynamics EGR 320 Signals and Systems EGR 363 Mass and Heat Transfer ENG 118 Colloquia in Writing: Consumer Culture ENG 135 Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction: Writing about Place and Travel ENG 384 Seminar: Writing About American Society ENV 150 Modeling Our World: An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems ESS 300 Nutrition Literacy FRN 230 Colloquia in French Studies: Consumers, Culture and the French Department Store FRN 262 After Algeria: Revolution, Republic and Race in Modern France FRN 272 J’accuse! French Intellectuals as Activists FRN 380 Topics in French Cultural Studies: Immigration and Sexuality FYS 198 The Global Coffee Trail GEO 102 Exploring the Local Geologic Landscape GEO 222 Petrology GEO 231 Invertebrate Paleontology and the History of Life GEO 301 Aqueous Geochemistry GEO 309 Groundwater Geology GOV 207 Politics of Public Policy GOV 213 Colloquium:The Bush Years GOV 215 Colloquium: The Clinton Years GOV 218 Workplace Law in Capitalist America GOV 234 Colloquium: Comparative Responses to AIDS in Africa GOV 242 International Political Economy GOV 322 Seminar in Comparative Government: Latin American Social Movements GOV 341 Seminar in International Politics: U.S. Foreign Policy, Human Rights and Democracy GOV 364 Seminar in Political Theory: Science Fiction and Political Theory: Imagining Human Expansion GOV 370 In Defense of Political Freedom: Liberal Democracy and its Enemies in Twentieth-Century Political Thought IDP 102 Race and Its Intersections with Class, Gender and Sexuality ITL 205 Savoring Italy: Recipes and Thoughts on Italian Cuisine and Culture LAS 201 Colloquium in Latin American and Latino/a Studies: Bodega Dreams: Afro-Latinidad in Words and Social Activism LAS 244 Feminisms and Women's Movements: Latin American Women's and Latinas' Pursuit of Social Justice LAS 301 Seminar: Topics in Latin American and Latino/a Studies: Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America LSS 105 Introduction to Landscape Studies LSS 389 Broad-scale Design and Planning Studio PSY 140 Health Psychology REL 320 Seminar: Jewish Religion and Culture: Topic: Judaism, Feminism, and Religious Politics SOC 328 Sociology of Wellbeing SOC 218 Urban Sociology SOC 237 Gender and Globalization SOC 244 Feminisms and Women's Movements: Latin American Women's and Latinas' Pursuit of Social Justice SOC 323 Seminar: Gender and Social Change SOC 327 Seminar: Global Migration in the 21st Century SWG 222 Gender, Law, and Policy SWG 271 Reproductive Justice SWG 290 Gender, Sexuality and Popular Culture ANT 230 Africa: Peoples, Environment and Health ANT 236 Economy, Ecology and Society BIO 180 Y Biogeochemical Cycling in the Avery Brook Watershed: a Research Course BIO 268/269 Marine Ecology & Lab BIO 366 Biogeography BIO 390 Seminar: Topics in Environmental Biology: Conservation Biology Investigation and Discovery BIO 390 Seminar: Topics in Environmental Biology: The Ecological Impacts of Global Change BIO 390 Seminar: Topics in Environmental Biology: Coral Reef Ecology & Conservation BIO 550 Advanced Studies in Environmental Biology BIO 550 Advanced Studies in Environmental Biology CHM 108 Environmental Chemistry CLT 253 Literary Ecology EAS 277 Colloquium: Environment and Society in Contemporary China ECO 213 The World Food System ECO 224 Environmental Economics ECO 324 Seminar: Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources EGR 100 Engineering for Everyone: Energy and the Environment EGR 100 Engineering for Everyone: Energy and the Environment EGR 100 Engineering for Everyone: Disaster Relief EGR 312 Atmospheric Processes EGR 315 Ecohydrology EGR 388 Seminar in Photovoltaic and Fuel Cell System Design ENG 118 Colloquia in Writing: Water: Science and Politics ENV 320 Environmental Justice ENV 100 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field ENV 101 Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field ENV 201 Environmental Integration II: Collecting and Analyzing Information ENV 201/202 Environmental Integration II: Collecting and Analyzing Information & Lab ENV 202 Environmental Integration II: Collecting and Analyzing Information Lab ENV 222 Globalization, Food, and Environment ENV 311 Environmental Integration III: Interpreting and Communicating Information ENV 312 Environmental Integration: IV: Sustainable Solutions ENV 312 Environmental Integration: IV: Sustainable Solutions ENX 301 Environmental Concentration Capstone: Sustainable Food GEO 101 Introduction to Earth Processes and History GEO 104 Global Climate Change: Exploring the Past, the Present and Options for the Future GEO 105 Natural Disasters: Confronting and Coping GEO 106 Extraordinary Events in the History of Earth, Life and Climate GEO 108 Oceanography: An Introduction to the Marine Environment GEO 112 Archaeological Geology of Rock Art and Stone Artifacts GEO 180 Y Biogeochemical Cycling in the Avery Brook Watershed: a Research Course GEO 180 Y Biogeochemical Cycling in the Avery Brook Watershed: a Research Course GOV 254 Colloquium: Politics of the Global Environment GOV 306 Seminar in American Government: Politics and the Environment LSS 100 Landscape, Environment, and Design LSS 220 Activism by Design: Exploring Resilient Case Studies LSS 255 Art and Ecology LSS 300 Rethinking Landscape PHI 304 Colloquium in Applied Ethics: Sustainability PRS 303 Talking Trash SPP 381 Seminar in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies: Brasil Profundo: Landscape and the Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Culture Sustainability Course Offerings 2012-2013 School Year (Not included in figures above): ENG 118 Colloquia in Writing: Water: Science and Politics EAS 220 Colloquium: Environment and Society in Contemporary China PHI 238 Environmental Ethics SOC 233 Environment and Society SOC 333 Seminar: Social Justice, the Environment, and the Corporation GES 302 Costa Rica at a Crossroads: Examination of Globalization and Sustainability ENG 135 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction: Writing about the Environment ENG 135 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction: Writing about the Environment ENG 119 Writing Roundtable: What’s for Dinner? Writing about Food ENV 266 Landscape of Northern Germany: Natural Environments and Human Influences JUD 125 Jewish Civilzation: Environmentalism EGR 325 Electric Power Systems SOC 232 World Population SWG 230 Feminisms and the Fate of the Planet FYS 132 Physics for Future Presidents

The website URL where the inventory of course offerings with sustainability content is publicly available:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the course inventory:
The course catalog for the past academic year (2013-2014) was examined to determine which courses might include sustainability or be a sustainability course. The inventory was then reviewed and edited by the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability. CEEDS added courses from the prior academic year (2012-2013), which were not counted in numbers for this STARS submission but were kept on the attached inventory for the record.

How did the institution count courses with multiple offerings or sections in the inventory?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

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 Yes
Thesis/dissertation No
Clinical No
Physical education No
Performance arts No

Does the institution designate sustainability courses in its catalog of course offerings?:
No

Does the institution designate sustainability courses on student transcripts?:
No

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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