Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.62
Liaison Daniela Beall
Submission Date Sept. 15, 2011
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University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.54 / 10.00 Laurie Case
Sustainability & Strategic Planning Coordinator
Chancellor's Office
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
4

The total number of courses offered :
737

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

Public & Environmental Affairs 324: Transitioning to Sustainable Communities
Creating resilient communities based on local inputs/outputs to support jobs, housing, transportation, schools, agriculture and city services.

Public & Environmental Affairs 390/483X: Colloquium in Environmental Sustainability & Business

Required component of the Certificate in Environmental Sustainability and Business. Focus is placed be upon the nature of systems thinking systems dynamics, and problem solving. Will address systems dynamics in natural world policy creation, human creativity and the arts, and business decision making. Latter half of class is applications focused.

Economics 412 – Economics of Sustainability
Exploration of the economic conditions for, requisites of, and policy to encourage social, ecological and economic sustainability.

Social Change and Development 251: Sustainable Development
Explores contradictions and possibilities resulting from incompatibilities of social and economic goals and systems with global and regional ecosystem, human and physical constraints. Case studies will include global, industrial, regional and third world issues.


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