Colorado College
AC-1: Academic Courses

All courses developed in the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Sustainability Across the Curriculum workshops and tagged with the sustainability course designation were included. All courses inventoried for STARS reporting have gone through the designation process. An intern in the Office of Sustainability also cross-referenced this year's course offerings with courses identified as related to sustainability from previous years' reporting. In addition, the intern went through the course catalog to identify new courses that relate to sustainability, verifying with faculty where necessary. All regular, credit-bearing course offerings during the academic year (blocks 1-8) of 2014-2015, 2015-2016, and 2016-2017 were included, excluding theses, independent study courses, adjuncts, and summer courses.

The Office of Sustainability has recently implemented a course designation for sustainability-focused and -related courses. The designation is was written by a group of students, faculty, and staff that was part of the Sustainability Action Team appointed by the president during the 2013-2014 academic year. A number of courses, mostly ones that were developed by faculty as part of the Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop, have gone through the designation process. This year, in addition to the courses developed in the Sustainability Across the Curriculum workshop, an intern at the Office of Sustainability goes through the course catalog and identifies courses that may be either sustainability focused or sustainability related and contacts the professor to ask them to fill out the course designation application (https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/sustainability/academics/curriculum/). These courses are listed on the college's webpage (https://www.coloradocollege.edu/offices/sustainability/academics/sustainability-courses-2015-2016/). However, the designation is not yet included in the course catalog or on student transcripts.