Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 45.66
Liaison Stalin Espinal
Submission Date March 2, 2023

STARS v2.2

City University of New York, Brooklyn College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.20 / 14.00 Stalin Espinal
Sustainability Coordinator
Environmental Health & Safety
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 1,613 966
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 49 27
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 212 75

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
14.08

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
43

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
23

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
53.49

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
This information was collected from departmental bulletins and the inventory of undergraduate and graduate courses, which includes a list of courses and their descriptions. Cross-referenced each academic department's academic course offering with United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and The Earth Charter Principles, in order to determine if a course was Sustainability-inclusive or Sustainability-focus as defined by STARS resource documents.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Courses were counted as they are listed in the undergraduate/graduate inventory list. Only courses offered by multiple department over the course of 1 academic year with course code/number under each of the different departments are counted as individual courses. The Course description will sate "this course is the same as [Department Name][Department Course Number].

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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