| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.14 |
| Liaison | Alexis Reyes |
| Submission Date | June 3, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Pomona College
ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.00 / 3.00 |
Ginny
Routhe Director Sustainability Integration Office |
Has the institution developed a definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
A copy of the institution's definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
The goal of sustainability education is to provide all students with the analytical, empirical, theoretical, and creative tools to evaluate past, current, and future environmental issues. Incorporating sustainability into the liberal arts curriculum also establishes the relationships between diverse environmental, economic, and social factors as a lens through which world issues can be viewed and analyzed.
Sustainability-focused courses concentrate on the relationships between diverse environmental, economic, and social dimensions of issues, while sustainability-related courses incorporate discussion of these relationships into courses that otherwise focus on a single topic.
In general, sustainability-focused or sustainability-related courses provide training in one of the following:
-Effective communication of sustainability issues, analysis, and recommendations
-Generation of recommendations and/or solutions to sustainability problems
-Basic-level technical skills to analyze sustainability issues
-The complex global systems in which sustainability issues exist (e.g. laws and policies)
-Philosophical or theoretical frameworks in which to view environmental and sustainability issues
-Historical patterns that have produced modern sustainability issues
-The complex social networks and dynamics of power in which sustainability issues have existed
-Analysis of literature, non-fiction, architecture, material arts (e.g. painting), and other art forms that have some bearing on sustainability issues past and present
-Awareness of connections between singular academic disciplines (e.g. Economics, English) and sustainability
-Understanding of the scientific method and the laws of science and how they apply to natural systems and environmental issues
Has the institution identified its sustainability-focused and sustainability-related course offerings?:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the inventory:
Courses were identified as being sustainability-focused or sustainability-related if they were a part of the curriculum of a sustainability major: Environmental Analysis (Pomona), Environmental Studies (Pitzer, Harvey Mudd), Environment, Economics & Politics (Claremont McKenna), or Environmental Science (Pitzer, Scripps, Claremont McKenna). Sustainability-focused and Sustainability-related courses were separated based on course descriptions according to the College's definition.
Does the institution make its sustainability course inventory publicly available online?:
The website URL where the sustainability course inventory is posted:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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