Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
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Overall Score | 49.31 |
Liaison | Keaton Schrank |
Submission Date | June 12, 2014 |
Executive Letter | Download |
Westminster University - Utah
AC-1: Academic Courses
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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8.17 / 14.00 |
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Kolodziejczyk Sustainability Fellow Environmental Center |
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Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses with sustainability content::
Undergraduate | Graduate | |
Total number of courses offered by the institution | 823 | 401 |
Number of sustainability courses offered | 25 | 0 |
Number of courses offered that include sustainability | 114 | 4 |
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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):
32
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Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):
61
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Number of years covered by the data:
Two
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A copy of the institution’s inventory of its course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
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An inventory of the institution's course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
Sustainability Focused Courses:
Undergraduate Courses
HIST 335 Environmental History of Africa
ENGL 357 Environmental Literature
PLSC 327 Environmental Politics and Policy
ENVI 300M Eco-Logical Eating
BIOL 404 Advanced Ecology
ECON 325 Environmental Economics
PHIL 307 Environmental Ethics
HIST 320 Environmental History of the United States
PUBH 250 Global Health
ENVI 101 Introduction to Environmental Studies
PUBH 320 Environmental Health
ENVI 300AA Vegan Revolution
ENVI 360D Writing the Environment
ECON 105 Introduction to Economics as a Social Science
ENVI 351 The Global Environment
COMM 300PP/ENVI 300G Environmental Communication
ENVI 357 Environmental Literature
ENVI 350/ENVI 300FF Climate and Society
ENVI 405 Senior Seminar
BIOL 345 Environmental Science and Lab
ENVI 300O Green Careers
ENVI 300S The History and Future of Oil
ENVI 360B Seminar on Global Environment
ENVI 300CC Sustainability and Slow Food
ENVI 300A Indigenous Environmental Politics
Sustainability Related Courses:
Undergraduate Courses
BIOL 110 Environmental Biology*
BIOL 203 Introduction to Ecology*
HPW 335/ENVI 300F Outdoor Leadership*
HIST 318 American Popular Culture
ART 311 Art History: Renaissance to Modern Art
HIST 326 African History Since 1500
ENGL 241 British and American Literature to 1660
ENGL 242 British and American Literature after 1660
SOC 305 Contemporary Issues
NURS 408 Community Health Nursing
ECON*412/MKTG*412 China: An Ancient Land Enters the Modern World Stage
ANTH 252 Cultural Anthropology
MKTG 420 Consumer Behavior
INTR 166 Communicating Across Cultures
HIST 300K Contested Spaces and Homelands
JUST 365 Economic Justice
ECON 253 Elementary Macroeconomics
EDUC 302 Foundations of Education in a Diverse Society
HPW 156 Exploring Wasatch Mountain Paths
ESS 205/GEOL 205 Environmental Earth Sciences*
BIOL 202 Organisms and Evolution
MGMT 474 Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship
SOC 350/GNDR 350 Gender in Society
HON 221 History and Philosophy of Science
FILM 210 History of American Cinema
HON 231 Human Culture and Behavior
BIOL 131 Human Genetics
ANTH 311 Human Evolution and Archeology
ANTH 160 Introduction to Anthropology
MGMT 490 International Management
ENGL 220 Introduction to Literature
ANTH 355 Indian Peoples in the U.S.
PHIL 206 Introduction to Ethics
PUBH 101 Introduction to Public Health
PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy
JUST 101 Introductions to Justice Studies
GNDR 100 Introduction to Gender Studies*
GNDR 350 Gender in Society
SOC 105 Introduction to Sociology
JUST 470 Justice Studies Senior Thesis
HIST 340 Latin American History: Discovery of the Americas
HIST 213 Modern World History
NURS 210 Nutrition
CHEM 303 Organic Chemistry I and Lab
CHEM 304 Organic Chemistry II and Lab
HON 212 Political Economy and Conflict
MATH 200G/SPAN 300FF Pilgrimage Santiago de Compostela III: A Global
Perspective on Slow Travel
MPH 500 Principles of Public Health Practice
ANTH 366 Political Anthropology
COMM 310 Professional Writing
PSYC 335 Psychology of Women
GNDR 360 Race, Gender, Class and the Media
SOC 372 Race, Ethnicity, and Class
REL 101 Religions of the World
PLSC 490 Research Seminar in Political Studies
HON 222 Science, Power, and Diversity
PUBH 310 Social and Behavioral Factors in Public Health
MGMT 475 Strategy in Global Management
HIST 220 United States History
HIST 317 The U.S. as a World Power
HIST 365 Utah and the West
FILM 220 World Cinema
HIST 113 Western Civilization
MATH 201B Calculus for the Life Sciences
HPW 300L Outdoor Trip Leader Training
CHEM 112 Principles of Chemistry II
BIOL 204 Principles of Genetics
PHYS 112 Principles of Physics II
NURS*300A/PSYC*300ZZ Issues of the Homeless*
PSYC 300 Autism: Awareness or Epidemic
PLSC 101 Introduction to Political Science
SOC 253 Sociology of the Family
PLSC 300A Indigenous and Environmental Policy
SOC 300Q Exploding Hollywood
PHIL 300YY Continued Issues of War and Peace
ENVI 305 Introduction to GIS
SOC 313 Social Theory
ANTH 377 Environmental Anthropology*
SOC 390 Social Research Methods
ENVI 360 Rural Representations
REL 300X Religion Today and Tomorrow
Psychology of Design
THTR 190 Performer’s Body
COMM 410 Technical Writing
ENVI 300RR History and Science of Sustainable Agriculture
EDUC 400 Seminar in Outdoor Education and Leadership
ENVI 300YY Environmental Psychology
SPAN 301 Spanish Speaking World: Literature and Nature
GEOL 110/ESS 110 Introduction to Geology
ENGL 110 Research and Composition [ENGL 110LC Research and Composition (paired with Environmental Biology)]*
CHEM 106 Chemistry and Society
EDUC 320 Education in a Diverse Society
EDUC*300/NURS*300 Hopi and Navajo Cultures
CHEM*300K*01/BIOL*300UU*01/ENVI*300KK*01/HON*300AAA*01/HIST*300B B*01 The Sciences and History of Hawaii
EDUC*300DD*01/HON*300DD*01/PUBH*300DD*01 Service Learning in Thailand
ENGL 401 Ecofeminism
ENVI 360 Cultural Landscapes
ENVI 300J/HIST 300J Coffee in History and Society
ENVI 300D Environmental Service Learning: Dixie National Forest
ENVI 300II An American in Paris
ENVI 300GG Weather and American Culture
ENVI 350A/JUST 344 Environmental Justice
ENVI 360C Rural Representations and Modern Life
ENVI 300EE Geographic Information Systems
ENVI 300VV Spanish Ecocriticism
ENVI 300JJ Psychology and the Natural Environment
ENVI 300BB Everest Base Camp Trek
ENVI 300DD Sustainable Business Literature
ENVI 300U Meditation as Environmental Study
ENVI 360A Utah and the American Dream
ENVI 300H Disease Ecology and Conservation
ENVI 300C European-Medical Perspective
ENVI 300TT Field Botany
ENVI 300B Slow Violence/Environmentalism
Graduate Courses
MACL Exploring Communities
MBA 627E Social Entrepreneurship
MBA 655C Global Environment of the Firm
MBA 615C The Ethical Leader
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The website URL where the inventory of course offerings with sustainability content is publicly available:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the course inventory:
A survey with a definition of sustainability and the STARS criteria for sustainability courses was sent out to all faculty members, who self-reported the sustainability-focused and sustainability-related courses they had taught over the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic school years.
A list of the special topics environmental studies courses was obtained from the registrar's office.
Courses were counted by catalog listing and by aggregated courses.
Directed Studies and Internships were excluded from the course count.
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How did the institution count courses with multiple offerings or sections in the inventory?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections
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A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted (if different from the options outlined above):
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Which of the following course types were included in the inventory?:
Yes or No | |
Internships | No |
Practicums | No |
Independent study | No |
Special topics | Yes |
Thesis/dissertation | No |
Clinical | No |
Physical education | No |
Performance arts | Yes |
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Does the institution designate sustainability courses in its catalog of course offerings?:
No
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Does the institution designate sustainability courses on student transcripts?:
No
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