Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	66.01
Liaison	Lissette Hernandez
Submission Date	July 1, 2024

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Florida International University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	13.02 / 14.00	Lissette Hernandez Director Parking and Transportation

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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	2,205	2,078
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	137	89
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	246	280

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

17.56

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:

90.91

Documentation

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

FIU_2021-2022_Course_Inventory.pdf

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 :

FIU Office of University Sustainability staff and interns reviewed the 2021-2022 course catalogs using the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SGDs) as guidelines. Courses designated as sustainability-focused either concentrate centrally on the concept of sustainability or focus on examining an issue or topic using sustainability as a lens.Courses specified as sustainability-related either focus significantly on the intersection of at least two targets of the UN SDGs or focus a significant sub-theme, module, major course assignment, significant project or service-learning experience on the concept of sustainability.

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:

FIU_2021-2022_Course_Inventory.xlsx

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

For the purposes of this credit, academic divisions were counted as departments because many divisions do not have separate departments. In addition, some divisions have classes which do not fall under a specific department.