Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.04
Liaison Jennifer Kleindienst
Submission Date Oct. 14, 2013
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Wesleyan University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.25 / 10.00 Krishna Winston
Professor of German Studies; Professor of Environmental Studies
German Studies; Environmental Studies
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
24

The total number of courses offered :
739

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

1. ARST 434 Sustainability and the City
2. BIOL/E&ES 197 Introduction to Environmental Studies
3. BIOL 220 Conservation Biology
4. BIOL 226/E&ES 356/ENVS 226 Invasive Species
5. ENVS 255 Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Challenges for Local to Global Environmental Governance
6. ECON 210 Economics of the Environment
7. ECON 212/ENVS 310 The Economics of Sustainable Development, Vulnerability, and Resilience
8. ECON 310 Environmental and Resource Economics
9. E&ES 165 Environmental Quality and Human Health
10. E&ES 170 Environmental Justice and Sustainability24
11. E&ES 199 Introduction to Environmental Science
12. E&ES/HIST/SISP 331 Perspectives on Mountaintop Removal: Origins, Techniques, and Impacts
13. E&ES/ENVS 361 Living in a Polluted World
14. E&ES 557 Advanced Research Seminars in Earth and Environmental Sciences
15. E&ES 290 Oceans and Climate
16. ENVS 295 Unlocking the Real Worth of Water
17. ENVS/AFAM 350/ANTH 351 Contextualizing Inequity: An Interdisciplinary Approach
18. ENVS 391/2 Senior Colloquium: Environmental Studies
19. GOVT 293 New Strategies in Political and Economic Development
20. GRST/ENVS 230 The Simple Life
21. PHIL 112 Ecology of Perception
22. PHIL 215 Humans, Animals, and Nature
23. PHIL/ENVS 270 Key Issues in Environmental Philosophy
24. PHIL 272/ENVS 273 Justice and the Environment


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
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A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

739 total courses were offered in 2012-13; the number varies from year to year, and some sustainability-focused courses are taught in multiple years.


739 total courses were offered in 2012-13; the number varies from year to year, and some sustainability-focused courses are taught in multiple years.

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