Download End-of-Program Review 2007-08 Sustainability in Environmental Studies (ES) Programs

End-of-Program Review 2007-08
Sustainability in Environmental Studies (ES) Programs
Did your program address sustainability? Sustainability can include:
- Living within the limits (for example, reducing consumption)
- Understanding the interconnections among economy, society, and environment
- Equitable distribution of resources and opportunities
ES Programs
All Programs
Extensively
41.7%
16.4%
Moderately
8.3%
24.1%
A little
25.0%
18.1%
Not at All
25.0%
41.4%
Percent of
Programs
Addressed
Sustainability
75.0%
58.6%
Programs
Addressed
Sustainability
(N)
9
68
Programs
responded
(N)
12
116
ES Programs that include
sustainability
Ecological Agriculture
Introduction to Environmental Studies:
Natural Resources, Oceans and Global
Climate Change
Practice of Sustainable Agriculture-2007
Extent
Extensively
Extensively
Areas of sustainability studied in the program (e.g., environmental sustainability, social
sustainability including social justice, economic sustainability, sustainable business pratices,
community sustainability, environmental ethics)
Agricultural sustainability - Environmental, Social, and Economic constantly referred to
Environmental and economic concepts.
Extensively
Environmental, social and economic sustainability as well as business practices
Sustainable Practice
Extensively
The program focused on the history and development of the sustainability movement, critical
perspectives on sustainability, personal sustainability practices (such as in transportation,
consumption, mindfulness), community service, psychological approaches to making
sustainable choices, sustainability theory, social justice and cross-cultural contexts, climate
change, campus sustainability, ecological footprint, etc.
Temperate Rainforests
Landscape Processes
Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms
Field Ecology
Plant Ecology and Physiology
Extensively
Moderately
A little
A little
A little
Environmental Sustainability, Forestry
Sustainability in the sense of understanding how earth processes affect human activities.
Environmental sustainability
Sustainable ecological management
Environmental and ecological sustainability
Office of Institutional Research and Assessment - The Evergreen State College
9/10/09