Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.77
Liaison Breeana Sylvas
Submission Date April 15, 2013
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STARS v1.2

University of California, Merced
ER-T2-8: Themed Semester or Year

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25
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Has the institution chosen a sustainability-related theme for its themed semester, year, or first-year experience during the past three years?:
Yes

A brief description of the themed semester, year, or first-year experience:

Each year UC Merced selects a common read and schedules activities and presentations throughout the year that coincide with this book. For the 2009-10 academic year, the book was The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman. This book explores humanity's impact on the planet and some of the lectures/activities that were scheduled that year included: a showing and discussion of the documentary, Flow, about the world water crisis; an interactive lecture on sustainability by the campus' director of sustainability; and a module in the first year CORE curriculum about California's water wars.


The sustainability-related book that was chosen, if applicable:
The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman

The website URL where information about the theme is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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