Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.04
Liaison Jennifer Kleindienst
Submission Date Oct. 14, 2013
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Wesleyan University
ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.07 / 10.00 Krishna Winston
Professor of German Studies; Professor of Environmental Studies
German Studies; Environmental Studies
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The number of sustainability-related courses offered :
68

The total number of courses offered :
739

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-related courses offered:
1. ANTH 277 Commodity Consumption and the Formation of Consumer Culture 2. ANTH 295 Theory 1: Beyond Me, Me, Me: Reflexive Anthropology 3. ANTH 296 Theory 2: Anthropology and the Experience of Limits 4. ARCP/ENVS 387 Water's Past--Water's Future: A History and Archaeology of Water Use and Management 5. ARHA 258 Contemporary World Architecture 6. ARST/ENVS 441 Considering the Campus: Landscape Architecture, Tradition, and the Ecological Mandate 7. BIOL/E&ES 111 Life on Planet Earth: Diversity, Evolution, and Extinction 8. BIOL 112 Biodiversity 9. BIOL 155 Ethnobiology and Agroecology 10. BIOL 173 Global Change and Infectious Disease 11. BIOL 196 Honors Principles of Biology II 12. BIOL 214 Evolution 13. BIOL 216 Ecology 14. BIOL/E&ES/ENVS 233 Geobiology 15. BIOL/E&ES 312 Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems 16. BIOL/E&ES 336 Landscape Ecology 17. BIOL 346 The Forest Ecosystem 18. CHEM 314 Environmental Chemistry 19. CHUM 329/ENGL 381/AMST 342/ANTH 305 Future Visions: Temporality and the Politics of Change 20. CSS 320 Junior Economics Tutorial: Economics in Transition 21. DANCE/ENVS 346 Ecology of Eating: Reporting from the Fields of Science and Art 22. DANCE 446 Dance and the Environment: Engagement and Action 23. ECON 302 Macroeconomic Analysis 24. E&ES 116 National Parks 25. E&ES 118 Water Resources and the Environment 26. E&ES 121 Science on the Radio 27. E&ES 155 Hazardous Earth 28. E&ES 280 Environmental Geochemistry 29. E&ES 305 Soils 30. E&ES 317 Hydrology 31. E&ES 324 GIS Service Learning Lab 32. E&ES 326 Remote Sensing 33. E&ES 341 Marine Biochemistry 34. E&ES 359 Global Climate Change 35. ENGL 112/AMST 124 The Environmental Imagination: Green Writing and Ecocriticism 36. ENVS/FGSS 214/PHIL 216 Women, Animals, Nature 37. ENGL 277 American Pastoral 38. ENVS 201 Research Methods in Environmental Studies 39. ENVS 285 Environmental Law and Policy 40. ENVS 291 Environmental Advocacy Strategies that Work 41. FILM 140 Making the Science Documentary 42. GOVT/ENVS 221 Environmental Policy 43. GOVT 222 Regulation and Governance 44. GOVT/EAST/ENVS 304 Environmental Politics and Democratization 45. GOVT 322 Global Environmental Politics 46. GOVT 333 International Organization 47. GOVT 334 International Security in a Changing World 48. GOVT 381 The Political Economy of Oil 49. GRST 217 German Culture Today 50. HIST/ AMST/ENVS 135 American Food 51. HIST/SISP 221 History of Ecology 52. HIST 224 Modern China: States, Transnations, Individuals, Worlds 53. HIST/ENVS 252 Industrializations 54. HIST 268 The Origins of Global Capitalism: Economic History, 1400-1800 55. HIST/ENVS 370 Marine/Maritime World History 56. MB&B 231 Microbiology 57. PHIL/ENVS/SISP 266 Primate Encounters 58. PHIL/ENVS 270 Environmental Philosophy: Metaphysical & Ethical Issues in Ecological Restoration 59. PHIL 275 Key Concepts in Political Philosophy 60. PHIL/ENVS 347 Ethics and Fluency: Metaphors in Moral Cognition 61. PHYS 102 Physics for Future Presidents 62. PSYC 260 Social Psychology 63. PSYC/AFAM 361 The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination 64. SOC 250 The Sociology of Markets 65. SOC 270 Urban Societies 66. SOC/LAST 292 Sociology of Economic Change: Latin American Responses to Global Capitalism 67. SOC 302 Paternalism and Social Power 68. SOC 304 Sociology and Social Justice

The website URL where the sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-related courses is posted:
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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-related courses are taught in multiple years.

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