Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.37
Liaison Laura Bain
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2013
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Furman University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.69 / 10.00
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
41

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The total number of courses offered :
875

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Number of years covered by the data:
One

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A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
AST-150 China in Search of Sustainability* AST-260 Environment and Health in India* BIO-240 Regional Agricultural Science* BIO-251 Introduction to Ethnobotany* BIO-340 Ecology BIO-343/EES-343 Environmental Systems BIO-344 African Ecology BIO-350 Infectious Disease Ecology* BIO-401 Applied Plant Science BUS-312 Sustainable Corporation ECN-235/SOC-221 Population, Economy, and Society* ECN-236 Economics of the Environment EES-112 Environmental Science EES-354-TS Field Study: Sierra Nevadas EES-360 Geology and Sustainability of India EST-301 Environment and Society FYS-1126 Sustainability of Natural Resources FYS-1128 The Energy Future of America FYS-1168 Pristine Nature: Myth or Reality? FYS-1193 Conservation and Culture FYW-1109 Global Climate Change: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy* FYW-1110 Global Water Issues* FYW-1127 To Walk the Land FYW-1129 Pristine Nature: Myth or Reality?* FYW-1196 Eating as a Sustainable Act* GGY-230 Principles of Geography HSC-304 Community and Environmental Health ML-223 Slow Food, Italian Style MXP-140 Sustainable Food Practices PHL-303 Environmental Ethics* PHL-304 Ethics of Globalization PSC-213 Environmental Policy PSC-214 Environmental Law and Conservation Advocacy* PSC-227 Environmental Politics in China* PSC-282 Land Conservation Policy* PSC-513 Conservation and Renewable Energy* SOC-222 Population and Environment* SUS-120 Principles of Sustainability SUS-240 Human Systems SUS-241 Social Systems SUS-242 Dynamic Systems Modeling

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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:
* denotes courses not taught in the 2011-2012 academic year, but still listed in the university's course listings for that year.

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