Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 60.22
Liaison Derek Martin
Submission Date Feb. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

California State University, Monterey Bay
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.43 / 14.00 Lacey Raak
Sustainability Director
Campus Planning and Development
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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 1,603 1,432
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 50 7
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 123 21

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
6.62

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
24

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
10

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
41.67

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
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 :
For the 2021 report we kept the 2019 data. There were complications with analyzing the 2020 data due to COVID.

The Sustainability TLA faculty group (with 5 members) and one student assistant reviewed the course offering from AY 2019 (as of Fall 2019). All courses were identified as 1 - a course that includes sustainability or 2 sustainability focused.

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:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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