Auburn University
AC-1: Academic Courses

1. Using the Auburn University Bulletin (http://bulletin.auburn.edu/), we created a list of all academic units with courses offered on campus (see attached document, "Sust courses from Bulletin").
2. We went through the entire Bulletin manually and compiled a list of every course matching the STARS definitions of "sustainability-focused" or "sustainability-inclusive," based on the titles and descriptions of the courses.
3. Using the online scheduler, we pulled up the schedules of courses for each semester in the three year period. We went through all the course offerings in each semester, noting whenever one of the "sustainability-focused" or "sustainability-inclusive" courses was taught. In a small number of cases, "Special Topics" courses or other classes that were not listed in the Bulletin appeared to have a significant sustainability content, and were added to the list of courses for the semester (see attached document, LIST OF COURSES).
4. Using information from the Registrar's office and the completed lists of courses for each semester, we tabulated the following information:
A. The total number of courses taught in each academic unit during each semester in the three-year period.
B. The total number of sustainability-focused and sustainability-inclusive courses taught in each academic unit during each semester in the three-year period.

Each section listed in the scheduler was counted individually. Because hundreds of sections of Auburn's non-sustainability related core curriculum courses (eg ENGL 110, HIST 1010) are offered each semester, this methodology produced a relatively low final percentage of sustainability-related courses. Nonetheless, we feel that it provides the most accurate overview of the percentage of classrooms in which sustainability content is discussed.

We included special topics courses that stated a specific topic focus in the course title.
We did not include graduate or undergraduate courses based on independent research, thesis, practicum, clinical, internship, directed study, or laboratory work.
We did not include any online courses.
We excluded all courses with the following subject codes: AFROTC, AROTC, COOP, GLOB, GRAD, NROTC, UNDG, LBAR.

Descriptions of all courses, along with a designation of them as Sustainability-Focused or Sustainability-Related, are included on the attached spreadsheet. This spreadsheet also includes information about when/how many times each course was taught over the three-year period.

Please note that the total number of academic units reported for AC-1 (65 units) is larger than the number listed in AC-9 (59 units). This is because several course codes (UNIV, INTL, etc.) do not correspond to any formal department on campus. In addition, over the three-year period various programs underwent name changes, new tracks and majors were created, and certain courses were shifted from one department to another, creating some overlap and resulting in a slightly different list for AC-1 than the one generated for AC-9.