Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	80.73
Liaison	Austin Eriksson
Submission Date	Oct. 3, 2024

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California State University, Northridge
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	13.98 / 14.00	Sarah Johnson Sustainability Program Analyst Institute for 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	2,182	1,017
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	74	34
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	472	106

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

21.44

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

89.71

Documentation

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

AC-1_Course_List_Analysis_1.xlsx

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 :

A listing of all courses taught in 2019-20 was obtained and joined to the catalog text for each course, which contained course descriptions. A keyword search was carried out on the catalog descriptions using 127 keywords from the Earth Charter and 240 keywords from the SDG targets.

Sustainability-focused courses were identified as those meeting one of three criteria:
1. designated SUST courses (developed for the Minor in Sustainability)
2. all electives approved for inclusion in the Minor by Sustainability Curriculum Committee
3. courses with descriptions containing 5 or more of the keywords

Courses determined to be related to sustainability were those with descriptions containing 3 or more keywords plus any other courses not included above which met GE SLOs related to sustainability.

Courses that met inclusion criteria based on the keyword search but were not deemed relevant based on our review of the course descriptions were removed.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:

Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:

N/A

Optional Fields

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

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