| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 70.54 |
| Liaison | Tavey Capps |
| Submission Date | Oct. 18, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Duke University
ER-T2-8: Themed Semester or Year
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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0.25 / 0.25 |
Tavey
Capps Environmental Sustainability Director Office of the Executive Vice President |
Has the institution chosen a sustainability-related theme for its themed semester, year, or first-year experience during the past three years?:
A brief description of the themed semester, year, or first-year experience:
Duke’s Focus Program for first-year students provides clusters of courses designed around an interdisciplinary theme. Students explore a range of issues and ideas from different viewpoints across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences; Focus faculty from diverse academic departments are leading researchers in their fields. The Focus program has had several sustainability-related clusters over the past few years, among these clusters have been “Evolution and Humankind," “Engineering Frontiers," and “Ethics, Leadership, and Global Citizenship,” all of which included sustainability classes and components.
This year one cluster, "Humanitarian Challenges: Borders, Environments, and Rights," has a sustainability component centered around resource conflict and climate change. (http://focus.duke.edu/clusters-courses/past-clusters/2012/07/16/humanitarian-challenges-borders-environments-and-rights).
The sustainability-related book that was chosen, if applicable:
The website URL where information about the theme is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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