Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 48.10
Liaison Jen Jones
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

College of Charleston
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.76 / 14.00 Jen Jones
Director
Center for Sustainable Development
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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 5,945 712
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 54 1
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 70 2

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
1.91

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
30

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
29

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
96.67

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 :
As a part of the College's Quality Enhancement Plan, the Sustainability Literacy Instituted worked with the Registrars office to tag SF/SI courses in the College's Course Catalog. This inventory is based on retrieving courses from the course catalog that were tagged for the 2020 calendar year.

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:
Each section of each course was counted as an individual course for this inventory. We chose this methodology because through the SLI, faculty have opted to oriented traditional courses with a sustainability lens. For example, a faculty member who teaches Accounting, introduced sustainability as a module in their course, however, only that faculty member had classes with this module.

Optional Fields 

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