| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.74 |
| Liaison | Mike Furno |
| Submission Date | July 20, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Denver
PAE-21: Sustainability in Continuing Education
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
7.00 / 7.00 |
Linda
Kosten Assistant Provost, Planning & Budget Provost's Office |
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Does the institution offer continuing education courses that are focused on or related to sustainability?:
Yes
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Number of sustainability continuing education courses offered :
33
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Total number of continuing education courses offered:
280
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Does the institution have a sustainability-related certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes
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A brief description of the certificate program:
Two certificate programs at DU offer by the Graduate School of Social Work fit the definition related social sustainability. They include continuing education certificates in Animals and Human Health: A Certificate in Animal-Assisted Therapy, Activities, and Learning and Adoption Competent Practice.
Animal-assisted therapy, activities and learning demonstrate how the human-animal bond can bring about deep and lasting social, emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual and psychological changes.
Adoption Competent Practice Certification program emphasizes the development of a framework for understanding the complexity of being a child or adult in a family by adoption, and the therapeutic skills that enable practitioners to work at the individual, couple, group and family levels of clinical practice.
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Year the certificate program was created:
2,008
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The website URL where information about sustainability in continuing education courses is available :
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Using the definitions for sustainability-related and sustainability-focused courses from the curriculum and research section of this report the continuing education courses offered through the programs in University College (the Enrichment Program and the Osher Life-long Learning Institute), the Graduate Tax Program, and the Graduate School of Social Work were reviewed. Of the 280 offered courses, 27 were determined to be sustainability-related and 6 were determined to be sustainability-focused.
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