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.


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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