Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 62.73
Liaison Tina Woolston
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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Tufts University
ER-8: Sustainability Courses by Department

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.98 / 7.00 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 departments that offer at least one sustainability-related or -focused course :
30

The total number of departments that offer courses:
39

A list of departments that offer sustainability courses:
American Studies Anthropology Art & Art History Biology Center for Environmental and Resource Policy Chemical and Biological Engineering Chemistry Chinese Civil and Environmental Engineering Community Health Economics Education Engineering Science Engineering Introduction English Agriculture, Food and Environment Environmental Studies Experimental College Geology History Mechanical Engineering Peace and Justice Studies Philosophy Physics & Astronomy Political Science Psychology Sociology Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning

The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of departments that offer sustainability courses is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory :
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Based on Tufts departments in the School of Arts & Sciences and interdisciplinary studies and programs (listed at http://as.tufts.edu/academics/departmentsprograms.htm), the School of Engineering (http://engineering.tufts.edu/academics/departments.htm) and the Fletcher School. Interdisciplinary studies and programs that do not hold their own courses or that were already counted in the major departments were omitted.

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