Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 48.18
Liaison Ken Foster
Submission Date July 27, 2011
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Vassar College
ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Jeff Walker
College Sustainability Coordinator
Sustainability
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Has the institution developed a definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
Yes

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A copy of the institution's definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
Sustainability-focused courses: Course that concentrate on the concept of sustainability, including its social, economic, and environmental dimensions, or examine an issue or topic using sustainability as a lens. Sustainability-related courses: Courses that incorporate sustainability as a distinct course component or module, or concentrate on a single sustainability principle or issue.

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Has the institution identified its sustainability-focused and sustainability-related course offerings?:
Yes

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the inventory:
In order to inventory sustainability-centered courses at Vassar, the committee used the Course Catalogue as a main reference point. In reviewing the Course Catalog, we searched for specific terms used in class descriptions such as sustainability, sustainable futures, and environmentalism. After a thorough review of the course catalog we narrowed down the classes and divided them into sustainability-centered and sustainability-focused based on the definitions we had previously established.

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Does the institution make its sustainability course inventory publicly available online?:
Yes

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The website URL where the sustainability course inventory is posted:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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