Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	70.16
Liaison	Kylee Singh
Submission Date	Sept. 19, 2019
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California Polytechnic State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.26 / 14.00	Kylee Singh Sustainability Coordinator Energy Utilities and Sustainability

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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	1,958	250
Number of sustainability courses offered	90	4
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	62	4

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

7.25

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:

80.39

Course Inventory

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

SUSCAT MASTER 2019.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 the Academic Senate Sustainability Committee has identified sustainability related and sustainability focused courses from the 2018-19 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. To qualify as focused, the course must explicitly teach all four of the Cal Poly Sustainability Learning Objectives in a meaningful way, and at least 20% of the course must address sustainability. To qualify as related, the course must explicitly teach at least one of the Cal Poly Sustainability Learning Objectives. Sustainability related courses are designated if “Courses that are not explicitly focused on sustainability (may) contribute towards scoring if sustainability has clearly been incorporated into course content.” Upon release of a new catalog the ASSC will review new course offerings and add the appropriate courses to the list.

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	No
Practicums	No
Independent study	No
Special topics	No
Thesis / dissertation	No
Clinical	No
Physical education	No
Performance arts	No

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

https://suscat.calpoly.edu/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

ASCC_SLOs_Eval_Form_Blank.xlsm

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The attached file is the rubric the Academic Senate Sustainability Committee uses to evaluate each course syllabus before designating it a sustainability focused or related course.