Curriculum
Introduction
One of the primary functions of colleges and universities is to educate students. By training and educating future leaders, scholars, workers, and professionals; higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to understand and address sustainability challenges. Institutions that offer courses covering sustainability issues help equip their students to lead society to a sustainable future.
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Master of Arts in Applied Community Development
- Future Generations University (WV)
The Master’s program is flexible to fit you, allowing you to focus your degree around your interests and career goals. You can be a full-time and finish in 20 months, …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Environmental Journalism Masters
- Michigan State University (MI)
Any MSU School of Journalism masters student can enroll in an environmental journalism class to fulfill graduate requirements or electives. Students can also complete a specialized master’s degree environmental option …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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MA Journalism (Science and Environment)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
There is growing demand for science journalists who can report on health and environment issues accurately and succinctly. This Master’s programme is designed to offer the practical and theoretical training …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism Master's Degree
- University of Montana (MT)
The School of Journalism’s graduate program is a hands-on, skills-based program that puts students in the field reporting on issues affecting society and the natural world.
The master's program is …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Science & Environmental Journalism (MA)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
Genetically modified foods … climate change … vaccines … stem cell research … evolution. Americans persistently misunderstand, misrepresent or disregard the science behind these hot-button issues and others. Courses in …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Environmental Journalism (MA)
- Point Park University (PA)
Point Park University will offer a 36-credit Master of Arts in Environmental Journalism starting in Fall 2020. This unique new master's program combines practical communication and journalism courses with graduate-level …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Graduate Program
- New York University (NY)
The Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) at New York University is a globally renowned science journalism training program operating in the world capital of science communication: New York …
- Posted July 10, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Statistics
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for statistics.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Spanish
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for Spanish.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Sociology
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for sociology.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Psychology
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for psychology.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Politics/Government
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for politics/government.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Physics
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for physics.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Philosophy
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for philosophy.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Template - Music
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for music.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Media/Communications
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for media/communications.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Mathematics
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for mathematics.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Literature
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for literature.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Languages
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for languages.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - History
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for history.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Film
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for film.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Engineering
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for engineering.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Economics
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for economics.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Chemistry
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for chemistry.
- Posted July 9, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Business
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for business.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Biology
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for biology.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Art
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for art.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Anthropology
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for anthropology.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Civic Engagement
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for civic engagement.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Sustainability Literacy in a Time of Socio-Ecological Crisis: Using Reaccreditation as a Leverage Point for Innovation in Higher Education
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Kentucky (KY)
This article presents a case study of innovation in sustainability education in higher education. It does so by explaining the to-date progress of a multi-year reaccreditation process begun in 2016 …
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Teaching Local Sustainability Online
- Prescott College (AZ)
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
While online learning may conjure up images of isolated students alone at their computers, this medium also provides ways to help people become locally engaged in the creation of sustainable, …
- Posted June 4, 2020
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Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
Sarah Jaquette Ray writes about her experiences as an educator having to navigate the complex classroom emotions that arise in this age of imminent environmental collapse in this chapter on …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Mapping the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the University Curriculum
- University of Edinburgh
The Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability established a curriculum review pilot project to identify teaching related to the Sustainable Development Goals in the Business School’s curriculum.
During this academic …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Curriculum, Sustainability and Success: Your Curriculum Needs a Reality Check
- AASHE (MA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
This webinar is part of the joint SCC — AASHE series of webinars on sustainability in the curriculum
"Your Curriculum Needs a Reality Check" Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:00 pm …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Community College Sustainability Guidebook Webinar
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- Global Council Science and the Environment (DC)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
This webinar will describe the particular challenges and opportunities of teaching sustainability at community colleges. SCC advisory board member Krista Hiser will present a sneak preview of the forthcoming Community …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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A Better Sustainable Future: Sustainable Fashion in Higher Education Pedagogy
- The New School (NY)
This special bonus session will focus on a vision of the future where we, the fashion industry, adopts environmentally beneficial manufacturing methods and dedicates itself to act in a socially …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Inside The New School's University Center: Students Foster Sustainable Behavior
- The New School (NY)
A class of students from Parsons The New School for Design's School of Art, Media, and Technology spent a fall semester working on projects that build upon the sustainability features …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Sustainability Minor
- American University (DC)
Offered by the Kogod School of Business, the Sustainability Minor provides students with a solid understanding of sustainability as it relates to the management and operations of public and private …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Bachelor of Integrated Studies - Sustainability, Society, and Resource Management
- Pittsburg State University (KS)
Pittsburg State University’s Bachelor of Integrated Studies (BIS) degree in Sustainability, Society & Resource Management (SSRM) is the only program of its kind in the state of Kansas. This is …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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SUNY COIL Global Commons Program
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
- State University of New York System Office (NY)
During this six-week, six-credit program, SUNY students take action on one of six selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in partnership with a community based or non-governmental organization (CBO or NGO). …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Master of Science in Energy and Environment
- City University of Hong Kong
The Master of Science in Energy and Environment (P63) is a 1-year full-time or 2-year part-time program at the City University of Hong Kong. The aim of the program is …
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Student's Club Revolutionized the Meaning of Green at a Community College!
- Dallas College (TX)
There was a mayor change at Cedar Valley College’s (CVC) Sustainability Office this academic year. All the Sustainability Awareness events were developed and delivered by the Student’s Green Club. Over …
- Posted May 20, 2020
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Environmental Science & Management Graduate Program
- Duquesne University (PA)
Duquesne University's Center for Environmental Research and Education (CERE) offers graduate level courses to students pursuing a Master's Degree in Environmental Science and Management, as well as to students pursuing …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Addressing environmental knowledge and environmental attitude in undergraduate students through scientific argumentation
- COMSATS University Islamabad (Islamabad)
This study was aimed at connecting undergraduate students to nature and later involving them in scientific argumentation as an effort to improve environmental education. The objective was to investigate the …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Education for sustainable development (ESD): Effects of sustainability education on pre-service teachers’ attitude towards sustainable development (SD)Education for sustainable development (ESD): Effects of sustainability education on pre-service teachers’ attitude towards sustainable development (SD)
- National University of Modern Languages (Islamabad Capital Territory)
- COMSATS University Islamabad (Islamabad)
- University of Education Lahore (Punjab)
Teachers’ education has a pivotal role in the process of societal change and for leading towards a sustainable future. The current study aimed at investigating the effect of a course …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Sustainable Engineering Cognitive Outcomes: Examining Different Approaches for Curriculum Integration
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Colorado School of Mines (CO)
- The Citadel (SC)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
As continued globalization of the world’s economic, environmental, and societal interactions strains the planet to meet anthropogenic demands, universities are striving to integrate sustainability education into engineering curricula intended to …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Why has sustainability advanced in management schools? A sociological explanation (Por que a Sustentabilidade tem avançado nas Escolas de Gestão? Uma explicação sociológica)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
This theoretical essay aims to provide a sociological explanation for the increasing importance of sustainability principles and practices in Management Schools. It does so by approximating two theoretical perspectives. First, …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Sustainable engineering master module – insights from three cohorts of European engineering team
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (Berlin)
- Warsaw University of Technology
Mobility and transnational migration are current social developments among the population of the European Union. These developments in both society-at-large and companies, linked to the challenges of sustainability, lead to …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Safety management module to create social sustainability skills
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Swedish Defence University (Stockholms Län)
Purpose This study has a scope limited to a specific course and changes integrated to the core of the KTH naval architecture master program. The students in the program have …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Teaching sustainability: complexity and compromises
- University of Wollongong (New South Wales)
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Universidad EAFIT (Antioquia)
- Universidad Icesi
- University of New England (Australia)
- Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen/Police Academy Lower Saxon (Braunschweig)
- Ewha Womans University (Seoul)
Purpose Sustainability is one of the leading challenges of our age, and higher education plays a vital role in supporting the implementation of sustainability initiatives. There has been substantial progress …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
AC 1: Academic Courses
- Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings
- Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings
- Inventory of sustainability course offerings (upload)
- Website URL - Sustainability course offerings
AC 2: Learning Outcomes
- Description of institution level sustainability learning outcomes
- List of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability
- Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of sustainability
- Website URL - Sustainability learning outcomes
AC 3: Undergraduate Program
- First sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- Second sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- Third sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- First sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
- Second sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
- Third sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
AC 4: Graduate Program
- First sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- First sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
AC 5: Immersive Experience
- Description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s)
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
AC 6: Sustainability Literacy Assessment
- Copy of the sustainability literacy assessment (upload)
- Copy of the sustainability literacy assessment (description)
- Website URL - Assessment of sustainability literacy
AC 7: Incentives for Developing Courses
- Description of the course development incentives
- Website URL - Incentives for developing sustainability courses
AC 8: Campus as a Living Laboratory
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.