Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.16
Liaison Rebecca Walker
Submission Date Feb. 6, 2014
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Southern Oregon University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.76 / 10.00 Roxane Beigel-Coryell
Sustainability & Recycling Coordinator
Facilities Management & Planning
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
64

The total number of courses offered :
1,701

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

ANTH 336 – Topics in Global/Local Interconnections
ANTH 451 – Cultural Ecology
ANTH 452/552 – Global Environmental Movements
BA 476 – Business Ethics
BA 483/MM 583 – Sustainability Leadership
BA 490/590 & MM 590 – Case Studies in Corporate Sustainability
BI 388 – Conservation of Natural Resources
BI 438/538 – Conservation Biology
EC 310 – The Environment and the Local Economy
EE 528 – Environmental Issues
ENGR 306/PH 306 – Sustainability: Materials Technology and Design
ES 102 – Intro to Environmental Studies: Biological Science
ES 103 – Intro to Environmental Studies: Social Science Perspectives
ES 200 – Intro to Environmental Science
ES 210 – Environmental Studies I
ES 310 – Environmental Applications
ES 310H – Honors Environmental Applications
ES 379 – Biodiversity
ES 383 – Science and Advocacy in Environmental Policy Debates
ES/SOC 420/520 – Environmental Sociology
ES 421/521 – Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development
ES 423 – Sustainability and Natural Resources
ES/GEOG/SSPC 437/537 – Conservation in the United States
ES/GEOG/SSPC 439/539 – Land Use Planning
ES/GEOG 440 – Planning Issues
ES 445 – Ecosystem Management and Conservation
ES 479 – Biosphere, Ecology, and Global Environmental Change
ES 479H – Honors Biosphere, Ecology, and Global Environmental Change
ES 482/582, GEOG 482/582 – Climatology
G 360 – Environmental Geology
GEOG 360 – Global Issues in Population, Development, and the Environment
HE 331 – Environmental Health
MBA 509 – Ethics
MM 513 – Strategic Management
NAS 380 – Native American Ecological Practices
PH 308 – Energy and the Environment
PH 310 – Energy Policy
PS 342 – Environmental Law
SOC 205 – Social Problems and Policy
SOC 350 – People and Forests


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This inventory was compiled by building upon the previous inventory through surveying faculty teaching relevant courses using the qualitative snowball approach and reviewing course descriptions in the course catalog. In the overall course inventory and the sustainability course inventory, all courses are counted for each department they are offered in, meaning that cross-listed courses are counted for each department they are offered in (example: ENGR 306/PH 306 – Sustainability: Materials Technology and Design is counted as 2 courses).


This inventory was compiled by building upon the previous inventory through surveying faculty teaching relevant courses using the qualitative snowball approach and reviewing course descriptions in the course catalog. In the overall course inventory and the sustainability course inventory, all courses are counted for each department they are offered in, meaning that cross-listed courses are counted for each department they are offered in (example: ENGR 306/PH 306 – Sustainability: Materials Technology and Design is counted as 2 courses).

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