Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.29
Liaison Olivia Shehan
Submission Date Aug. 18, 2011
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Wellesley College
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.67 / 10.00 Patrick Willoughby
Sustainability Director
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
45

The total number of courses offered :
1,227

Number of years covered by the data:
Two

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
AFR 226 Environmental Justice, "Race," and Sustainable Development BISC 106 Environmental Biology with Laboratory (First-year Seminar) BISC 108 Environmental Horticulture with Laboratory BISC 201 Ecology with Laboratory BISC 217/ES 217 Field Botany with Laboratory BISC 202 Evolution with Laboratory BISC 210 Marine Biology with Laboratory BISC 307/ES 307 Advanced Topics in Ecology with Laboratory   BISC 308 Tropical Ecology with Wintersession Laboratory BISC 314 Environmental Microbiology with Laboratory BISC 319 Population Genetics and Systematics with Laboratory BISC 327/ES 327 Biodiversity Topics CHEM 306/ES 306 Green Chemistry (Seminar) ECON 228 Environmental and Resource Economics ES 101 Fundamentals of Environmental Science with Laboratory ES 102 Environment and Society: Addressing Climate Change ES 111/GEOS 111 The Yucca Mountain Problem: Where Should We Put Nuclear Waste? ES 201/GEO 201 Methods & Problems in Environmental Science with Laboratory ES 203 Cultures of Environmentalism ES 207 The Modern Environmental Imagination: Introduction to Environmental Literature (Seminar)
 ES 210/GEOS 210 Hydrogeology- Water and Pollutants with Laboratory ES 212/RAST 212 Lake Baikal: The Soul of Siberia ES 214/POL2 214 Social Causes and Consequences of Environmental Problems ES 215 Critical Theories of the Environment: Sustainability, Modernity, Democracy ES 220 Environmental Limits and Conservation with Laboratory ES 222 Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Issues ES 299/HIST 299 United States Environmental History ES 300 Environmental Decisionmaking (Seminar) ES 308/GEOS 308 Wetlands Science with Laboratory ES 309 Our Food, the Food System, and the Environment ES 312 Environmental Policy (Seminar)
 ES 315/GEOS 315 Environmental Geochemisty with Laboratory ES 325/POL3 325 International Environmental Law ES 381/POL1 381 United States Environmental Politics ES 250GH Environmental Studies Reading Group GEOS 101 Earth Processes and the Environment with Laboratory GEOS 102 The Dynamic Earth with Laboratory GEOS 110 The Coastal Zone: Intersection of Land, Sea, and Humanity with Lab GEOS 208 Oceanography GEOS 304 Sedimentology with Laboratory GEOS 320 Isotope Geochemistry PHIL 233 Environmental Ethics POL3 332S People, Agriculture and the Environment SUST 201 Introduction to Sustainability SUST 301 Introduction to Sustainability

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For a list of the courses related directly to the Environmental Studies Program: http://www.wellesley.edu/EnvironmentalStudies/Curriculum/courses.html

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