| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 77.43 |
| Liaison | Elida Erickson |
| Submission Date | Feb. 28, 2022 |
University of California, Santa Cruz
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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12.16 / 14.00 |
Elida
Erickson Sustainability Director Sustainability Office |
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings
| Undergraduate | Graduate | |
| Total number of courses offered by the institution | 1,255 | 492 |
| Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 88 | 12 |
| Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 170 | 59 |
Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
18.83
Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department
36
Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
25
Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
69.44
Documentation
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 :
Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies (IRAPS) generated a list of all graduate and undergraduate courses that were offered in academic year 2017-18.
The deans sent out an email to their faculty and staff requesting that they review their department's offerings from this list and identify those that fit the criteria of being a sustainability course or a course that includes sustainability (definitions and examples from STARS technical manual were provided) and provide a rationale for why a course was designated as either.
The Sustainability Office reviewed the department's response and augmented this final list by reviewing the course catalog from each department to identify further courses.
The final list was shared with departments and submitted to AASHE STARS.
Courses were counted once, regardless of how many times they were offered. Individually-directed courses (e.g. thesis, independent study, practicum), and/or special topic courses were excluded from the total course count as well as the course count for sustainability courses.
The deans sent out an email to their faculty and staff requesting that they review their department's offerings from this list and identify those that fit the criteria of being a sustainability course or a course that includes sustainability (definitions and examples from STARS technical manual were provided) and provide a rationale for why a course was designated as either.
The Sustainability Office reviewed the department's response and augmented this final list by reviewing the course catalog from each department to identify further courses.
The final list was shared with departments and submitted to AASHE STARS.
Courses were counted once, regardless of how many times they were offered. Individually-directed courses (e.g. thesis, independent study, practicum), and/or special topic courses were excluded from the total course count as well as the course count for sustainability courses.
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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