Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 48.73
Liaison Claire Rodgers
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 14.00 / 14.00
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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 89 0
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 17 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 15 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
35.96

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
1

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
1

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
100

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 :
The total number of courses were determined by the courses offered in the course catalogs during Fall 2020-Spring 2021. Courses with multiple sections were counted once per semester. Cross-registered classes were counted as one course. Courses that students can take at other institutions were not counted and The Olin Internship Practicum, Olin First Year Introduction, and Study Away were not considered courses for this section. Furthermore, the Olin Conductorless Orchestra was excluded because of its status as a performance-based course. Sustainability course offerings were determined by a definition that is a combination of environmental well-being and human well-being. To count as "sustainability-focused", the main topic has to be one or both of these and all projects have to be in the topic, not part of the course or some of the projects. E.g., a course on biology with a disease lens (human well-being) is "sustainability-inclusive", whereas a course on disease would be "sustainability-focused". The course inventory was reviewed and validated by the faculty at Olin College.

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:
Courses that had multiple sections were each counted once per semester.

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:
Due to the nature of Olin's curriculum, the classes offered in future years may be different then the courses offered in FY21.

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