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Overall Score 60.36
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Submission Date Aug. 2, 2011
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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.71 / 10.00 Bridget Rathsack
Student Sustainability Assistant
Facilities Management Sustainability Department
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
153

The total number of courses offered :
8,935

Number of years covered by the data:
Two

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

AFRO 3141 Africa
AGRO 1101 Bio of Plant System
AGRO 1103 Crops, Environment & Society
AGRO 2101 Biol Food, Land, People, Env.
AGRO 5321 Ecology: Agricultural Systems
AGRO 3203W Env, Food Prod & the Citizen
ANSC 1011 Animals and Society
ANSC 3203W Env, Food Prod & the Citizen
ANTH 3041 Ecological Anth
ANTH 4069 Environmental Arch
ANTH 5041 Ecological Anth
ANTH 1906W Freshman Seminar
APEC 3611 Environmental & Nat Res Econ
APEC 5651 Econ Nat Resourc & Env Policy
ARCH 1906W Waste Culture & Alternatives
AST 1001 Explore Universe
AST 1901 Freshman Seminar
AST 1011H Explore Universe, H
BBE 1901 Freshman Seminar
BBE 5212 Safety & Env Health Issues
BBE 1906W Freshman Seminar
BIOL 1001 Evolution & Ecology
BIOL 1901 Biology Freshman Seminar
BIOL 3407 Ecology
BIOL 3807 Ecology
BIOL 3408W Ecology
CE 3501 Env Engr
CFAN 1501 Biotechnology, People & Envir
CFAN 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
CHEM 1021 Chem Prin I
CHEM 1022 Chem Prin II
CHEM 1031H Honors Chem I
CHEM 1032H Honors Chem II
CLA 1901 Freshman Seminar
CLA 1906W Freshman Seminar
CSCL 3361 Visions of Nature
CSCL 3366W Landscape, Nature, Society
DIS 3332 GloS:Euro Environ Prob, Policy
DIS 3343 Hist:Environ History of Europe
DIS 3822 Ecol & Human Impact: N Baltic
DIS 3823 Biol: Marine Mammals
DIS 3824 Biol: Ecotoxicology
DIS 3825 Biol:Ecotox Lab:Int’l Tests
DIS 3830 Biol:Marine Biol:Euro Coastal
ECON 3611 Environmental Econ
EDHD 1901 Freshman Seminar, Environment
EDHD 1906W FreshmanSeminar, Environmnt/WI
EE 1701W Ener Envir Soc
EEB 3001 Ecology and Society
EEB 3361 Visions of Nature
ENR 1901 Freshman Seminar
ENR 3205 MN Ecosystems Field Course
ENT 5321 Ecology: Agricultural Systems
ESPM 1011 Issues in the Environment
ESPM 1051 Intro to Environmental Science
ESPM 1201 Conserv and Mgmt of Nat Res
ESPM 1425 The Atmosphere
ESPM 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
ESPM 2041 Nat Res Consumption/Sustnblty
ESPM 3021 Ecol Veg Mgmt: Consultng Aprch
ESPM 3101 Conservt of Plant Biodiversity
ESPM 3245 Sustainbl Land Use Plng/Policy
ESPM 3251 NR in Sustain Int'l Developmnt
ESPM 3261 Econ and Nat Resources Mgmt
ESPM 1901H Topics: Freshman Seminar
ESPM 1906W Freshman Seminar
ESPM 3011W Ethics in Natural Resources
ESPM 4061W Water Quality & Natural Resour
FR 4461 Int'l Water Quality
FR 5142 Tropical Forest Ecology
FR 5146 Sci & Pol of Global Envtl Chng
FSCN 1112 Principles of Nutrition
FW 1002 Wldlf:Ecol,Values,Human Impact
FW 1901 Freshman Seminar
FW 2001 Intro to Fish, Wldlf & Con Bio
FW 2002 Threatened & Endangered Wldlf
FW 5003 Human Dimensions of Bio/Cons
FW 5411 Aquatic Toxicology
FW 5455 Sustainable Aquaculture
FW 5603W Habitat/Regulation of Wildlife
FW 5604W Fisheries Ecology/Management
GEO 1001 Earth and Its Environments
GEO 1002 Earth History
GEO 1004 Geology/Minnesota
GEO 1005 Geology and Cinema
GEO 1006 Oceanography
GEO 1008 Faces of the Earth
GEO 1009 Global Changes
GEO 1101 Introduction to Geology
GEO 1901 Freshman Seminar: Envt
GEO 3002 Climate and History
GEO 3003 Geohazards
GEO 3004 Water and Society
GEO 1906W Freshman Seminar: WI/Env
GEO 2111H Honors Earth Sci
GEOG 1403 Biogeography
GEOG 1425 Meteorology
GEOG 3111 Minnesota
GEOG 3141 Africa
GEOG 3355 Environ Quality
GEOG 3376 Political Ecology of No Amer
GEOG 3379 Env Development
GEOG 3431 Plant & Animal Geog
GEOG 5411 Geog of Health
GEOG 5431 Plant and Animal Geography
GEOG 1403H Honors: Biogeography
GEOG 1906W Freshman Seminar
GEOG 3361W Geography and Public Policy
GEOG 3411W Geog of Health
GEOG 4121W Latin America
GLOS 3303 Envt Development
GLOS 3304 Frameworks of Sustainability
GLOS 4311 The Politics of Nature
HIST 3452 African Conservation Histories
HMED 3040 Human Health & Envir. in Hist.
HORT 5071 Restoration & Reclam Ecology
HORT 1906W Freshmen Seminar
HSCI 1212 Life on Earth
HSCI 1214W Life on Earth
IOFT 1101 Envir Issues Solns
IOFT 1901 Freshman Seminar, Envt
LA 3501 Env Des: Biol/Phys Context
LAS 4121W Latin America
NRES 3206 Natural History of Costa Rica
NRES 5461 Int'l Water Quality
PBIO 1212 Plants and Society
PHIL 3301 Environmental Ethics
PHYS 1901 Freshman Seminar: Envt
PHYS 1001W Energy and Environ
PLPA 1001 Microbes, Plants & People
PLPA 3002 Air Pollution, People & Plants
POL 3441 Pol/Environ Protect
POL 3872W Global Env Politics
PSTL 1112 Nature in the City
PSTL 1171 Earth Systems and Environments
PSTL 1173 Geology of National Parks
PSTL 1901 Freshman Seminar: Environment
PSTL 1906W Fresh Sem: Environ Issues
PUBH 3102 Issues in Envrn & Occup Health
RCOL 1901 First Year Seminar
RCOL 3901 Seminar on Environment
RCOL 3906 Residential College Seminar II
RCOL 1906W First Year Seminar
RRM 1901 Freshman Seminar
RRM 4232W Managing Recreational Lands
SOC 4305 Environmental Soc
SOC 4311 The Politics of Nature
SOIL 1125 The Soil Resource
SOIL 2125 Basic Soil Science
SUST 3003 Frameworks of Sustainability
UC 4525 Garbage & Human Environment
URBS 3751 Urban Environment
WRIT 3383 In Search of Nature


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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

This data only covers undergraduate course offerings.

The courses above were obtained searching the Electronic Course Approval System to find those labeled with the U's Environment Theme Designation (see ER 5 for more information on the sorting process). In order to obtain an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, students must take at least one course that meets the Environment Theme Liberal Education requirement. The list of courses provided for this credit all fulfill an Environment Theme requirement. While the University may not have a large percentage of Sustainability-focused courses, all students seeking undergraduate degrees from the University of Minnesota are required to take one of these courses.


This data only covers undergraduate course offerings.

The courses above were obtained searching the Electronic Course Approval System to find those labeled with the U's Environment Theme Designation (see ER 5 for more information on the sorting process). In order to obtain an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, students must take at least one course that meets the Environment Theme Liberal Education requirement. The list of courses provided for this credit all fulfill an Environment Theme requirement. While the University may not have a large percentage of Sustainability-focused courses, all students seeking undergraduate degrees from the University of Minnesota are required to take one of these courses.

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