Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.29
Liaison Olivia Shehan
Submission Date Aug. 18, 2011
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Wellesley College
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.67 / 10.00 Patrick Willoughby
Sustainability Director
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The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
24

The total number of courses offered :
1,200

Number of years covered by the data:
Two

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:
AFR 204 ‘‘Third World’’ Urbanization AFR 306 Urban Development and the Underclass: Comparative Case Studies ANTH 110 The Anthropology of Food (FYS) ANTH 251 Cultures of Cancer ANTH 299 Home and Away: Human Geography and the Cultural Dimensions of Space and Place ANTH 314 Human Biology and Society ARTH 175/BISC 175 First-Year Seminar: The Art and Science of Food in Italy,from the Renaissance to the Slow Food Movement (FYS) ARTH 231 Architecture and Urbanism in North America BISC 106 Environmental Biology with Lab (FYS) BISC 301 Seminar: Topics in Plant Biology ECON 319 Economics of Disease and Destruction EDUC 215 Understanding and Improving Schools EDUC 335 Seminar. Urban Education EXTD 105 First-Year Seminar: The Nuclear Challenge GEOS 230 Earth from Above HIST 230 Seminar: The Hand that Feeds: A History of American Food HIST 240 Cities in Modern Europe PSYC 311 Seminar. Environmental Psychology SOC 320 Technology, Society, and the Future SOC 334 Consumer Culture SOC 365/ENG 365 Images of the American City WGST 240: U.S. Public Health: Theory and Practice WGST 340: Global Health WRIT 125 Hidden Worlds: Desert islands, Ghost Towns, Invisible Cities, and Writing About Place

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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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