Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	78.11
Liaison	Kristin Larson
Submission Date	Oct. 23, 2023

STARS v2.2

San Diego State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	13.82 / 14.00	Molly Weber AASHE STARS Student Intern Office of Energy & Sustainability

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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	2,070	940
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	251	198
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	348	215

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

33.62

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

110

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

87.27

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:

AC_1__Academic_Courses_-_Fall_2023_Update.pdf

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 :

Molly Weber, our AASHE STARS student intern, researched all of the academic departments and found sustainability and sustainability-related courses in the 2023-2024 General Catalog and Graduate Bulletin.

Utilized the Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Earth Charter as criteria found under the Standards and Terms of the Technical Manual for this category to select which courses counted as sustainability and sustainability-related.

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:

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Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:

http://sustainable.sdsu.edu/academics/curriculum

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

https://catalog.sdsu.edu/content.php?catoid=9&navoid=776

The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.