Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.73
Liaison Tina Woolston
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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Tufts University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.56 / 10.00 Antje Danielson
Administrative Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment & Water: Systems, Science and Society (WSSS) program
Tufts Institute of the Environment
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
51

The total number of courses offered :
1,996

Number of years covered by the data:
Three

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
Anthropology ANTH149-15 Energy, Environment, and Empire Biology BIO144- Principles of Conservation Biology, Michael Reed, David DesRochers BIO180- Seminar in Conservation Biology, Michael Reed BIO181- Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Colin Oreans Chemical and Biological Engineering CHBE173- Clean Energy Technologies and Policy Issues, Maria Flytzani-Stepha, William Moomaw Civil and Environmental Engineering CE149- Earth Support Systems, Michael Paster CE158- Occupational and Environmental Health, Anne Marie Desmarais, David Gute CE172- Fate and Transfer of Environmental Contaminants, John Durant CE173- Health Effects and Risk Assessment, Anne Marie Desmarais CE175- Hazardous Materials Safety, Anne Marie Desmarais CE265/UEP265- Corporate Management of Environmental Issues, Ann Rappaport CE267- Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment Community Health CH184- Globalization and Health, Ray Hyatt Economics EC030/ENV030- Environmental Economics, Ekaterina Gnedenko Engineering Science ES025/ENV025- Environment and Technology, Anne Desmarais ES027/ENV027- Environmental Health and Safety, David Gute ES125- Science and Technology of Atmospheric Change Engineering-Introduction EN048- Waste Not Want Not - The Engineering Aspects of Reuse/Recycling, Christopher Swan EN076- Climate Change in Engineering (CEE), John Durant Environmental Studies ENV091- Environmental Preservation and Improvement, George Ellmore, Michael Reed ENV94/UEP094- Environmental Policy Planning and Politics, Rusty Russell ENV278/UEP 278- Environmental Justice, Security and Sustainability, Julian Agyeman, Loh Penn Experimental College EXP022-S- Modeling Alternative Energy: Engineering for Non-engineers EXP024-S- Energy and Society, Ekaterina D. Titova, Tyler J. Cooper EXP024-S-Going Green: A Practical Guide to Environmentalism, Warren Wertheim, Kristine J Babick EXP046-F- Environmental Action: Shifting from Saying to Doing, Tina Woolston, Negin Toosi EXP072-F- Climate Change and the Law, Lisa Hodes EXP097-AS- Quidnunc: Sustainable Development in Nicaragua Fletcher School DHP P255 International Energy Policy DHP P258 Clean Energy Technologies and Policy Issues EIB E246 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics EIB B280 The Global Food Business ILO L223 International Environmental Law DHP P250 Elements of International Environmental Policy DHP P251 International Environmental Negotiations, William Moomaw CIS 201 University Seminar: Water and Diplomacy: Integration of Science, Engineering and Negotiation, William Moomaw and Shafiqul Islam CIS 202 University Seminar: Interdisciplinary Approaches to One Health: People, Animals and the Environment DHP P253 Sustainable Development Diplomacy DHP P254 Climate Change Policy, Kelly Sims Gallagher EIB E243 Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries DHP P256 Innovation for Sustainable Prosperity Mechanical Engineering ME114- Solar Energy Political Science PS138 – Cultural Environmental Politics, Nancy Gleason PS188 – Global Environmental Politics, Nancy Gleason PS195/UEP294-03- Seminar: Politics of Sustainable Communities, Kent Portney PS253 – Sustainable Development Diplomacy, William Moomaw, Hans Hoogeveen and Patrick Verkooijen Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning UEP172- Strategies for Social Change UEP221- Climate Change Policy, Planning and Action, Ann Rappaport UEP281- Chemicals, Health and the Environment, Sheldon Krimsky UEP284- Developing Sustainable Communities, Julian Agyeman UEP294- Green Urban Design, Christine Cousineau

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The list of sustainability focused courses includes courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from Fall 2008 through Spring 2011. Each course is only counted once, regardless of how many times it was offered during this time frame.

The list of sustainability focused courses includes courses offered at the undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from Fall 2008 through Spring 2011. Each course is only counted once, regardless of how many times it was offered during this time frame.

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