| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 64.54 |
| Liaison | Shane Stennes |
| Submission Date | Oct. 25, 2012 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 10.00 |
Shane
Stennes Director of Sustainability University Services |
The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
The total number of courses offered :
Number of years covered by the data:
A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
AFRO 3141 Africa
AGRO 1101 Biology of Plant Food Systems
AGRO 1103 Crops, Environment, and Society
AGRO 3203W Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
AGRO 5321 Ecology of Agricultural Systems
ANSC 1011 Animals and Society
ANSC 3203W Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
ANSC 3203W Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
ANSC 3203W Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen
ANTH 1906W Freshman Seminar
ANTH 3041 Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 4069 Environmental Archaeology
ANTH 5041 Ecological Anthropology
APEC 3611 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
APEC 5651 Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy
AST 1001 Exploring the Universe
AST 1011H Exploring the Universe, Honors
BBE 1906W Freshman Seminar
BIOL 1001 Introductory Biology I: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives
BIOL 1001H Introductory Biology I: Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives
BIOL 3407 Ecology
BIOL 3408W Ecology
BIOL 3807 Ecology
CE 3501 Environmental Engineering
CFAN 1501 Biotechnology, People, and the Environment
CFAN 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
CFAN 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
CFAN 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
CHEM 1021 Chemical Principles I
CHEM 1022 Chemical Principles II
CHEM 1031H Honors Chemistry I
CHEM 1032H Honors Chemistry II
CSCL 3361 Visions of Nature: The Natural World and Political Thought
DIS 3332 Environmental Problems and Policy: a European Perspective
DIS 3343 Environmental History of Europe
DIS 3822 Ecology and Human Impact in the North and Baltic Seas
DIS 3823 Biology of Marine Mammals
DIS 3824 Ecotoxicology: Principles and Practice
DIS 3825 Intensive Ecotoxicology Laboratory: Introduction to International Tests and Assays
DIS 3830 Marine Biology of European Coastal Waters
EE 1701W Energy, Environment, and Society
EEB 3001 Ecology and Society
ESPM 1011 Issues in the Environment
ESPM 1425 The Atmosphere
ESPM 1901 Topics: Freshman Seminar
ESPM 2041 Natural Resources Consumption and Sustainability
ESPM 3011W Ethics in Natural Resources
ESPM 3101 Conservation of Plant Biodiversity
ESPM 3245 Sustainable Land Use Planning and Policy
ESPM 3251 Natural Resources in Sustainable International Development
ESPM 3261 Economics and Natural Resources Management
ESPM 3261 Economics and Natural Resources Management
ESPM 4061W Water Quality and Natural Resources
ESPM 4061W Water Quality and Natural Resources
FR 1901 Freshman Seminar
FR 5146 Science and Policy of Global Environmental Change
FSCN 1112 Principles of Nutrition
FW 1901 Freshman Seminar
FW 2001 Introduction to Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
FW 2002 Threatened and Endangered Wildlife: Causes, Consequences, and Future Conservation
FW 5003 Human Dimensions of Biological Conservation
FW 5603W Habitats and Regulation of Wildlife
FW 5604W Fisheries Ecology and Management
GEO 1001 Earth and Its Environments
GEO 1002 Earth History
GEO 1005 Geology and Cinema
GEO 1006 Oceanography
GEO 1101 Introduction to Geology
GEO 1901 Freshman Seminar: Environment
GEO 3002 Climate Change and Human History
GEO 3003 Geohazards
GEO 3004 Water and Society
GEO 3402 Science and Politics of Global Warming
GEOG 1403 Biogeography of the Global Garden
GEOG 1403H Honors: Biogeography of the Global Garden
GEOG 1425 Introduction to Meteorology
GEOG 3111 Geography of Minnesota
GEOG 3141 Africa
GEOG 3361W Geography and Public Policy
GEOG 3376 Political Ecology of North America
GEOG 3379 Environment and Development in the Third World
GEOG 3411W Geography of Health and Health Care
GEOG 3431 Plant and Animal Geography
GEOG 4121W Latin America
GEOG 5431 Plant and Animal Geography
GLOS 3303 Environment and Development in the Third World
GLOS 3304 Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet
GLOS 4311 Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature
HMED 3040 Human Health, Disease, and the Environment in History
HORT 5071 Restoration and Reclamation Ecology
HSCI 1212 Life on Earth: Perspectives on Biology
HSCI 1214W Life on Earth: Perspectives on Biology
IOFT 1101 Environmental Issues and Solutions
LA 3501 Environmental Design and Its Biological and Physical Context
LAS 4121W Latin America
PBIO 1212 Plants and Society
PHIL 3301 Environmental Ethics
PHYS 1001W Energy and the Environment
POL 3872W Global Environmental Cooperation
PSTL 1112 Nature in the City
PSTL 1171 Earth Systems and Environments
PSTL 1906W Freshman Seminar: Environmental Issues
PUBH 3102 Issues in Environmental and Occupational Health
RRM 4232W Managing Recreational Lands
SOC 4305 Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict
SOC 4311 Race, Class, and the Politics of Nature
SOIL 1125 The Soil Resource
SOIL 2125 Basic Soil Science
SUST 3003 Sustainable People, Sustainable Planet
URBS 3751 Understanding the 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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