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


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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.


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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