Cornell University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/education/curricula/

The Atkinson Center (ACSF) oversees the delivery (publicly, via the web) and annual review of the most comprehensive list of sustainability-related courses at Cornell. With last year's submission, we changed our tracking system internally to identify courses as "focused" or "related" following the STARS criteria. Total unique courses - for the 2010-2011 survey, the Cornell University Registrar and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future spent a great deal of time identifying the unique courses offered at Cornell in the 2010-11 academic year by selecting distinct (not cross-listed) courses and excluding labs/fieldwork/clinics (required for another course), internships, independent studies, and special degree required work (like honors thesis, masters & doctoral research). For 2010-11, we reported 3965 total unique courses. For 2011-12, we reported 4000 total unique courses by using an estimate, rather than an exact count, based on the Registrar's reported 0.86% increase in the number of courses. Applying the same method for 2013-2014 data, we calculate a 2.2% increase to 4087 total unique courses for the denominator. Additionally, a thorough search through Cornell's Course Roster was conducted, and new sustainability-related and focused courses were identified. The list of Sustainability Curricula provided by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future was updated in July of 2013 to show these changes. The previously reported sustainability course list was also reviewed and some courses previously identified as focused were moved to the related category upon further review of the materials. Since last year's report, 95 net courses were added and 38 new/edited courses were added to the sustainability-focused category. This submission reflects the courses offered in the 2013-2014 school year.