| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.69 |
| Liaison | Margaret Lo |
| Submission Date | Dec. 16, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Ball State University
AC-3: Undergraduate Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.00 / 3.00 |
Annette
Rose Assistant Professor Technology |
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Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused major, degree program, or the equivalent for undergraduate students?:
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The name of the sustainability-focused, undergraduate degree program (1st program):
NREM major with a Natural Resources Concentration includes a "cluster" of courses in Sustainable Development.
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A brief description of the undergraduate degree program (1st program):
The Concentration in Natural Resources requires nine (9) credits from the Natural Resources Core Concentration list and twenty four (24) credits selected from two of the three specialization Clusters offered.
Cluster: Sustainable Development
NREM 205 – International Natural Resource Conservation (3 credits)
NREM 304 – Sustainable Agriculture (3 credits)
NREM 307 – Environmental Management in Developing Countries (3 credits)
NREM 309 – Human Dimensions of Global Change (3 credits)
NREM 335 – Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (3 credits)
NREM 357 – International Community Development (3 credits)
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Does the institution offer one or more sustainability-focused minors, concentrations or certificates for undergraduate students?:
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The name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor, concentration or certificate (1st program):
Minor in Sustainability
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A brief description of the undergraduate minor, concentration or certificate (1st program):
To prepare students for leadership in the 21st century, Ball State offers an undergraduate minor in sustainability.
Participating students will be provided a breadth of exposure to issues including systems theory, values and ethics, atmosphere and climate, population, energy, water, land, food (land-based and freshwater/marine-based), health (disease and nutrition), materials (including resource harvesting, resource limitations, resource recycling), natural biological systems (including ecosystem services), economies and poverty.
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The name of the sustainability-focused undergraduate minor, concentration or certificate (2nd program):
Sustainable Land Systems
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A brief description of the undergraduate minor, concentration or certificate (2nd program):
Sustainable use and development of the land base and its natural resources has become an integral part of fitting human uses to the land in the planning professions.
From such roots within the Department of Landscape Architecture there has emerged a new interdepartmental minor in Sustainable Land Systems to provide a cross- disciplinary forum for integration of ideas in sustainable, or regenerative, land resource use and development.
Sustainable Land Systems (LA 471) serves as the anchoring course within the program. This is complemented by the three core courses (Ecology, Environmental Economics, and Environmental Ethics), a carefully chosen set of electives from which students select three courses, and the closing course within the clustered minors program, Creating a Sustainable Future (ID 400).
BIO 216 Ecology 4
ECON 311/NREM 303 Environmental Economics 3
PHIL 230 Environmental Ethics 3
LA 471 Sustainable Land Systems 3
ID 400 Creating a Sustainable Future 3
9 Hours from the Following:
ANTH 312 Ecological Anthropology 4
ARCH 498 Vital Signs 3-6
BIO 418 Community Ecosystem Ecology 3
BOT 480 Plant Ecology 3
GEOL 207 Environmental Geology 3
HIST 204 /NREM 204 American Environmental History 3
LA 270 Environmental Systems 3
NREM 205 International Natural Resources:Development and Conservation 3
NREM 304 Sustainable Agriculture 3
NREM 306 Resources for Self-Reliant Living 3
NREM 357 International Rural Development 3
NREM 405 Integrated Resources
Planning and Management 3
PLAN 433 Environmental Planning 3
PLAN 435 Energy Planning 3
PLAN 460 Alternative and Sustainable
Community Planning 3
POLS 347 Environmental Law and Policy 3
ZOOL 483 Wildlife Biology 3
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
NREM major with a Natural Resources Concentration includes a "cluster" of courses in Sustainable Development.
A required course for the concentration is our version of resource economics (NREM 203).
Courses available for the cluster include Human Dimensions of Global Change (clearly meeting that social criterion) and other courses focus on the economic and environmental dimensions.
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