Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	62.57
Liaison	Kylee Singh
Submission Date	Feb. 16, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

California Polytechnic State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	6.13 / 14.00	David Braun Faculty Engineering

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Part 1

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	3,355	729
Number of sustainability courses offered	76	7
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	111	6

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

4.90

Part 2

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):

None

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

62.50

Course Inventory

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

edit_Cal Poly Course Details.xlsx

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:

Two

A brief description of the methodology used to determine the total number of courses offered and to identify sustainability course offerings, including the definitions used and the process for reviewing and/or validating the course inventory :

With a detailed rubric process our Academic Senate Sustainability Committee has been working to identify sustainability related and sustainability focused courses from the 2013-15 Course Catalog. The rubric is modeled after our sustainability learning objectives and identifies courses based on their course descriptions and syllabus components that incorporate sustainability related learning components.

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 (if different from the options outlined above):

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Are the following course types included in the inventory? :

	Yes (included) or No (not included)
Internships	Yes
Practicums	Yes
Independent study	Yes
Special topics	Yes
Thesis / dissertation	Yes
Clinical	No
Physical education	Yes
Performance arts	Yes

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