Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.40
Liaison Havina Georgieva
Submission Date April 4, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

FIE: Foundation for International Education
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 14.00 / 14.00 Hannah Feakes
Director of Administration
Administration
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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 59 0
Number of sustainability courses offered 2 0
Number of courses offered that include sustainability 22 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
40.68

Part 2 

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):
1

None
Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):
1

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
100

Course Inventory

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 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 :
The total number of courses offered was established via access to FIE's internal list of approved course syllabi. (http://www.fie.org.uk/london-courses). FIE has 2 courses where the primary or explicit focus is on sustainability. To establish the number of courses offered that include sustainability, FIE's Charting the Course document was referred to. This document is the result of a project whereby FIE faculty members teaching on each course were asked to consider and map how their course addresses each of FIE's four articulated values, giving a description. This document is updated by the Academic Team when new courses are added, and is revisited and reviewed periodically.

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):
N/A

Are the following course types included in the inventory? :
Yes (included) or No (not included)
Internships Yes
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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Part 1 - FIE has 43 courses (see http://www.fie.org.uk/london-courses) and 16 that are closed courses for certain partner universities (59 in total). Our sustainability courses offered are 'Ecology, Environment, and Economics: Market Forces and Sustainability' and 'Environmental Science: Our Role in Today's World' (a closed course for one of our university partners). You can see the 22 courses where sustainability is included in FIE's Charting the Course document: http://www.fie.org.uk/images/Documents/Charting%20the%20Course%20-%20Jan%202016.pdf

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