Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.16
Liaison Rebecca Walker
Submission Date Feb. 6, 2014
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Southern Oregon University
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.53 / 10.00 Roxane Beigel-Coryell
Sustainability & Recycling Coordinator
Facilities Management & Planning
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The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
78

The total number of courses offered :
1,701

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:

ANTH 213 – Cultural Anthropology: Perspectives on Humanity
ANTH 450 – Culture Change
ARTH 345 – Activist Artists and Works in Their Community
BA 208 – Hospitality & Tourism Essential Skills
BA 310 – Lodging & Tourism Operations
BA 311 – Food & Beverage Management
BA 312 – Hospitality/Tourism Marketing
BA 374 – Principles of Management
BA 489 – Organizational Leadership
BI 103 – General Biology : Populations
BI 340/ES 340 – Introductory Ecology
BI 382 – Biology and Society
BI 386 – Forest Ecology and Management
BI 454/554 – Plant Ecology
BI 523 – Natural History of the Pacific Northwest
CH 101 – Environmental Chemistry
CH 330 – Metals and Civilization
EC 315 – Environmental Economics
EC 351 – Oregon’s Future
ED 452 – Outdoor Education Experiences
EE 527 – Place-Based Curriculum Development
ES 101 – Intro to Environmental Studies: Earth Science
ES 111/GEOG 111 – Physical Environment I
ES 111H – Honors Physical Environment I
ES 112/GEOG 112 – Physical Environments II
ES 112H – Honors Physical Environment I
ES 309/GEOG 309 – Principles of Meteorology
ES 327 – Energy and Climate Change
ES 351 – Environmental Policy and Impact Analysis
ES 431 – Urban Watersheds
ES/GEOG 433/533 – Soil Science
ES 435 – Water Resources
ES 442 – Valuation of Ecosystem Goods and Services
ES 475 – Environmental Modeling
ES 480 – Fire Ecology
G 314 – Hydrology
G 353 – Oceanography
GEOG 108 – Global Lands and Livelihoods
GEOG 350 – Urban Environments
HE 275 – Health & Society II
HE 362 – Community Health
HST 421/521 – Environmental History
IS 250 – The International Scene
IS 375 – Human Rights in Global Age
OAL 170 – Bike Maintenance
OAL 174 – Hiking
OAL 250 – Foundations in Outdoor Adventure Leadership
OAL 362 – Outdoor Recreation Programming and the Environment
OAL 444 – History of the Pacific Northwest Wilderness
PH 309 – Energy Alternatives
PHL 205 – Ethics: Moral Issues
PHL 205H – Honors Ethics: Moral Issues
PHL 426/526 – Women and Ethics
PS 110 – Globalization
PS 328 – Public Policy and the Environment
PS 340 – Law, Science, and the Environment
PSY 435/535 – Environmental Psychology
SOC 204 – The Sociological Imagination
SOC 310 – Community Studies
SOC 345 – Sociology of Globalization
SOC 425 – Food, Power, & Agriculture
SOC 461 – Creating and Negating God
SSPC 199 – The BP Oil Spill
SSPC 440 – Social Activism: History, Method, Practice
USEM 101 – University Seminar
USEM 102 – University Seminar
USEM 103 – University Seminar


The website URL where the sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-related courses is posted:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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: BI 340/ES 340 – Introductory Ecology 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: BI 340/ES 340 – Introductory Ecology is counted as 2 courses).

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