Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	74.46
Liaison	Ciannat Howett
Submission Date	Oct. 9, 2024

STARS v2.2

Emory University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.39 / 14.00	Cyrus Bhedwar Director Office of Sustainability Initiatives

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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	1,619	1,868
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	160	158
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	116	186

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

17.78

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:

79.10

Documentation

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

Sustainable_Courses_2023_for_Review_090524_Sus_Only.xlsx

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

Three

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :

This year, Emory reused its methodology from our past report but made changes to how courses were categorized based on the best judgment of staff. Our methodology was to create a list of keywords made up of AASHE-recommended keywords and phrases that include UN SDG references. We used this same keyword list as the first step to inventorying the courses for AC-1, the research for AC-9, and the continuing education courses for EN-12. Emory’s Office of Institutional Research applied the keywords to an algorithm to flag courses and research that contained at least one keyword or phrase. Once those courses and research were filtered, Emory Sustainability staff reviewed all of the course and research descriptions of those filtered, identified whether or not they were sustainability-focused or sustainability-inclusive, and eliminated those that were neither. We used the long course and research descriptions to conduct this review. Additionally, courses that were identified as sustainability-focused or -inclusive in our 2021 survey that were still offered in 2023 were included in the final list, but their categorization may have changed based on the best judgment of staff. In determining the total number of courses offered, the following were excluded: • Internships • Practicums • Independent study • Thesis/dissertation/Research • Clinical

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:

Multiple sections of the same course were not counted separately.

Optional Fields

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

https://sustainability.emory.edu/initiatives/academics/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

All data reported in this section for September 2020-August 2023.

The spreadsheet includes the following columns:

Level: whether the course is undergraduate or graduate

Course Title

Course Description

Academic Unit: the program or major offering the course

2024 Focused: whether the course is being proposed as "sustainability-focused:" for Emory's 2024 STARS report

2024 Inclusive: whether the course is being proposed as "sustainability-inclusive:" for Emory's 2024 STARS report

Additional Justification: the SDG or SDGs addressed by the course.