Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.43
Liaison Michael Iversen
Submission Date Aug. 28, 2013
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St. Lawrence University
ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Has the institution developed a definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
Yes

A copy of the institution's definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:

Many of our sustainability-focused or related courses are considered to fulfill our environmental literacy requirement. Environmental Literacy Courses have primary learning goals in which students, through multiple opportunities and classroom instruction, develop: a broad understanding of how people and societies relate to each other and to natural systems and how they might do so with minimal adverse impact, and/or a recognition of the consequences of human activities on natural systems and/or an understanding of the impacts that changes in natural systems can have on human life, health and welfare, and/or an awareness of the cultural, economic and political forces that affect environmental policies.


Has the institution identified its sustainability-focused and sustainability-related course offerings?:
Yes

A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the inventory:

The Academic Affairs Committee of the University approves the designation of a given class as counting for the environmental literacy requirement. There are sustainability-focused or related courses that will not carry the environmental literacy requirement because a course pre-requisite carries the designation.


Does the institution make its sustainability course inventory publicly available online?:
Yes

The website URL where the sustainability course inventory is posted:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Given recent University changes in graduation requirements (including the addition of the Environmental Literacy Requirement) the EL designation may not be visible until course registration of the class of 2017.


Given recent University changes in graduation requirements (including the addition of the Environmental Literacy Requirement) the EL designation may not be visible until course registration of the class of 2017.

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