SPIA-2314: Active Transportation for a Healthy, Sustainable Planet
Description: Connections among active transportation (e.g., bicycling, walking) and significant global challenges such as physical inactivity, health, the environment, and the economy on local to global scales. Methods to assess walkability among communities with different worldviews and the influence of the built environment on rates of active transportation. Approaches to evaluate demographic and psychosocial predictors and physical and policy barriers to use of active transportation. Successful strategies to increase active transportation through community design guidelines, behavior change tools, transportation planning, and policy.
Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.
Course Hours: 3 credits
Sections Taught: 6
Average GPA: 3.70 (A)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 55.67%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.98%
| Steven C Hankey | 2024 | 75.0% | 20.7% | 3.2% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.2% | 3.68 | 5 |
| Ralph Buehler | 2021 | 86.2% | 10.3% | 3.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 3.82 | 1 |