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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International Energy, Environment and Technology Specialization in Global Policy Studies (MGPS)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Each student in the Master of Global Policy Studies program must select a specialization, which consists of 15 credits (usually five three-credit courses) that fit together to give the student …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Energy and Earth Resources (MA/MS)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program provides the opportunity for students to pursue interdisciplinary studies in areas of geosciences, engineering, management, finance, economics, law and policy. Private sector and …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Global Energy, International Arbitration & Environmental Law Concentration (LLM)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The University of Texas at Austin's School of Law has created the Master of Laws (LL.M.) Concentration in Global Energy, International Arbitration & Environmental Law to catalyze the interdisciplinary study …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (PhD)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Environmental and water resources engineering is a broad discipline dedicated to addressing environmental issues in air, water, and soil. It includes a variety of sub-disciplines, such as water quality engineering, …
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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering (MS)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Environmental and water resources engineering is a broad discipline dedicated to addressing environmental issues in air, water, and soil. It includes a variety of sub-disciplines, such as water quality engineering, …
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Corporate Social Innovation Concentration in Business Administration (MBA)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The McCombs School of Business concentration in corporate social innovation offers students insight into the industry through unique courses and events and prepares them for career opportunities related to this …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Geography and the Environment (PhD)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Faculty and graduate students have contributed in many ways to understanding and managing earth’s diverse cultural and physical environments, ranging from local to global scales across the full range of …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Geography and the Environment (MA)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Faculty and graduate students have contributed in many ways to understanding and managing earth’s diverse cultural and physical environments, ranging from local to global scales across the full range of …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environmental Engineering (BS)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
In the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) in the Cockrell School of Engineering, undergraduate students follow the environmental engineering curriculum (B.S. degree) and are taught by tenure-track …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Sustainable Energy Systems (SES) Certificate
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Today, we face the grand challenge of meeting the energy needs of a growing population while minimizing the adverse effects of these technologies on the environment. The Sustainable Energy Systems …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environment & Sustainability Bridging Disciplines Program
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The Environment & Sustainability BDP gives students the opportunity to explore a variety of disciplinary approaches to environmental processes and contemporary environmental issues. By bringing together courses in natural sciences, …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Geography (BA)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The Bachelor of Arts degree program in Geography focuses on our interdependent world and our fragile habitat. The major nourishes a sense of responsibility and provides tools for the solution …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environmental Science (BS)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science degree program (the “EVS Program”) is an interdisciplinary degree program in Environmental Science offered collaboratively by The University of Texas at Austin’s College …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Concentration in Biology (MS)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
This concentration is designed for students aiming to go on to Ph.D. programs or enter the workplace in fields such as systematics, evolution, conservation, population genetics, genomics, behavior of organisms; …
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Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Sciences (MS)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
The Masters of Science (MS) in Interdisciplinary Marine and Estuarine Sciences (IMES) program is an interdisciplinary program offered at San Francisco State University (SF State) by the College of Science …
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Ecology Concentration in Biology (BS)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
Ecology emphasizes the study of the interactions among and between organisms and the environment, the conservation and management of populations and communities of species, and the pattern and process of …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Geography (BA)
- San Francisco State University (CA)
Geographers study physical and biological environments, human societies and their spatial interactions, and utilize both environmental science and social science perspectives. Geographers seek to analyze the processes, spatial patterns and …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Sustainability Studies Minor
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
Sustainability is most commonly defined as meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The field of Sustainability Studies …
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Environmental Science (BS)
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
Environmental science provides students with many opportunities in industry, government and academia. Graduates are well prepared for both graduate school and careers in environmental consulting, environmental regulation, advocacy or education. …
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Masters of Environmental Science (MSc)
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
The TRU MSc in environmental sciences program fills local, regional, provincial, national and international needs for environmental professionals. The program is designed to produce graduates who are innovative and have …
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Leadership in Environmental Sustainability Certificate
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
The Leadership in Environmental Sustainability certificate allows students to earn formal recognition for their knowledge, skills, awareness, and attitudes that contribute to environmental sustainability competency – from projects, to artwork, …
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Enhancing Campus Curricula and Sustainability Through UN SDGs
- Lehigh University (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are serving as a benchmark for not only development of much of the world, but also for redevelopment of the industrialized world, which faces a …
- Posted May 2, 2019
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A decade of Finnish engineering education for sustainable development
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Purpose The paper aims to examine the current status and development of sustainable development in Finnish engineering education.
Design/methodology/approach The study consists of interviews with key stakeholders supplemented with the …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Can MOOCs empower people to critically think about climate change? A learning outcome based comparison of two MOOCs
- Universidade Aberta
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- FernUniversität in Hagen
Climate change can be regarded as one of the key topics of sustainable development where public awareness and education are crucial. In the field of education, Massive Online Open Courses …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Establishing transdisciplinary minor programme as a way to embed sustainable development into higher education system: Case by Tongji University, China
- East China Normal University
- Tongji University
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of the establishment and development of a minor program in Sustainable Development in Tongji University, China, and how …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Innovating Undergraduate General Chemistry by Integrating Sustainability-related Socio-Scientific Issues
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- Universität Bremen
Background: Many general chemistry courses in U.S. undergraduate education focus on decontextualized content learning, driven by a structure-of-the-discipline approach. Due to this approach, many students perceive general chemistry to be …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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I and We: Does Identity Explain Undergraduates’ Ethical Intentions?
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
Concerns about business ethics have led many business schools to integrate ethics into the curriculum, with mixed results (May, Luth, & Schwoerer 2014, Wang & Calvano 2015, Waples, Antes, Murphy, …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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The Value of Experiential and Action Learning in Business Ethics Education
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This paper develops an interpretive framework around ethical learning by using qualitative methods to examine the collective impact of Experiential Learning Activity (ELA) and Critical Action Learning (CAL) on student …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Identifying the factors for sustainability learning performance
- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Hordaland)
- Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
- Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
The recent launch of several important international education initiatives designates a future for education that moves away from educational achievements largely based on access and attainment and advances a more …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Integrating Sustainability into Higher Education Curricula through the Project Method, a Global Learning Strategy
- Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Higher levels of material well-being lead almost inevitably to giving priority to individualism and personal advancement, often at the expense of civic conscience. A proposal for integrating sustainability into the …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Development of a Measurement Tool for Sustainable Development Awareness
- Necmettin Erbakan University
Raising the sustainable development awareness is of great importance for the continuation of the world's livability. Teachers have a great responsibility in order for individuals to make sustainable development a …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Green Chemistry in Higher Education: State of the Art, Challenges, and Future Trends
- King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
- Universitat de València
- Gdańsk University of Technology
- Polish Naval Academy
Nowadays, there is increasing interest in global sustainability, and thus, university students would like to know how human actions affect the health status of our planet. This is mainly due …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Business School Professors’ Perception of Ethics in Education in Europe
- Rovira i Virgili University
This qualitative study aims to investigate business school professors’ perception of ethics in business education, and their possible role in achieving ethical awareness in these schools. Data were collected through …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Learning to Navigate (in) the Anthropocene
- KU Leuven
Over the last decades, the extent of human impact on Earth and the atmosphere has been the subject of large-scale scientific investigations. It is increasingly argued that this impact is …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Leadership of Heart and Mind: Examining the Mind and Skill Sets of Student Sustainability Leadership
- University of New England (ME)
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
The purpose of this comparative case study was to deepen the understanding of post-secondary student sustainability leaders’ motivations and identify the skills they have employed in order to inform the …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Measuring development of environmental awareness and moral reasoning: A case-study of a civil engineering course
- Virginia Tech (VA)
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- Swinburne University of Technology
Environmental awareness and ethical moral reasoning are important aspects of the engineering profession. Yet, engineering programmes have been struggling to teach these topics and measure the effectiveness of these educational …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Training Secondary Education Teachers through the Prism of Sustainability: The Case of the Universitat de València
- Universitat de València
Designing the training of future teachers through holistic and interdisciplinary visions is vital to developing coherent contents, epistemologies, and methodologies that put Education for Sustainability into action. The research presented …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Building an Industry-Oriented Business Sustainability Curriculum in Higher Education
- National Taiwan Normal University
- Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science
- National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
In the past, research addressing the issues reflecting industrial needs for sustainability-related curriculum design in higher education has been limited. To narrow this gap and to provide students with better …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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International perspectives on the pedagogy of climate change
- Purchase College - State University of New York (NY)
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- Prince Sultan University (Riyadh)
- Universidad de Sonora (Sonora)
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
Education is key to the advancement of environmental sustainability. Climate change education is a complex topic where a number of factors play key roles. One such factor, namely the ongoing …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Connecting Social and Natural Ecologies Through a Curriculum of Giving for Student Wellbeing and Engagement
- Australian National University
- University of Canberra
Using hermeneutic phenomenology to aid the reader ‘experience’ the data collected, this study reports on 18 college students, 4 staff members and the author's trip to a remote island on …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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On how business students’ personal values and sustainability conceptions impact their sustainability management orientation: Evidence from Germany, Indonesia and the USA
- University of St. Gallen
- National University of Singapore
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- University of Sussex (Sussex)
This paper aims to develop and empirically test a framework on how personal values and sustainability conceptions affect students’ sustainability management orientation (SMO). An understanding of this connection gives insight …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Learning Sustainable Cultural Safety in a Crowded, Warming World
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
Among all the pressing needs for educational innovations that we face today, arguably the most imperative is the need to elicit learners’ active collaboration towards a ‘Great Transition’ into a …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development at a Swiss University: Navigating the Traps of Institutionalization
- University of Bern
How far have higher education institutions progressed towards integrating sustainable development at an institutional level and are they responding to the societal need for transformation? Can the pace of transformation …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Earth Month Activities
- University of Scranton (PA)
Earth Day Fair
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Tarrant County College Southeast Campus Aquaponics Cultivation Center and Wildlife Development
- Tarrant County College Southeast (TX)
This is a massive, on-going project that we have been developing as a committee over the past 2 years. Right now, I am in the process of developing 2 miles …
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Conditions for transformative learning for sustainable development: a theoretical review and approach
- Örebro University
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Continued unsustainability and surpassed planetary boundaries require not only scientific and technological advances, but deep and enduring social and cultural changes. The purpose of this article is to contribute a …
- Posted April 5, 2019
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Master of Science in Environmental Science and Sustainability
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
A changing climate requires a changing professional. The Institute of Environmental Sustainability educates the next generation of professionals - environmental science and sustainability professionals who can apply an interdisciplinary approach …
- Posted April 5, 2019
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Commitment to the Sustainability of Students Within a Responsible Management Education
- Częstochowa Politechnika
Higher education has always responded to the social needs. Universities can play a critical role in the process of social change that relies on educating new generations of leaders and …
- Posted April 4, 2019
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Master of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The Sustainable Energy and Environmental Management curriculum is a multidisciplinary program with courses taught in schools across the Georgia Tech campus. These include Public Policy, Business, Industrial and Systems Engineering, …
- Posted April 4, 2019
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Education for sustainable development through business simulation games: An exploratory study of sustainability gamification and its effects on students' learning outcomes
- Università della Svizzera Italiana
- UCS Ulrich Creative Simulations
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is gaining increased attention in tertiary education. According to the literature, ESD affects not only the content of education, but also its process and outcomes. …
- Posted April 4, 2019
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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.