Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.02
Liaison Maxine Dandois-Fafard
Submission Date Nov. 10, 2023

STARS v2.2

Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 14.00 / 14.00 Philippe-Edwin Bélanger
Director
Graduate Studies and Student Success Service
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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 0 189
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 0 22
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 0 58

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
42.33

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
4

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
4

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 Registrar’s office provided a list of all the courses offered for the academic year 2022-2023.
We removed from that list 58 courses identified as "individually directed" or "special topic oriented".
Thanks to an Excel keyword research tool, we identified courses that contain key words related to sustainable development in the title or description. We used and adapted a keyword research tool provided by Polytechnique Montréal, in collaboration with Université Téluq, and with the tools provided by AASHE such as the keyword list.
After cataloguing the courses identified by keywords, the Sustainable Development Team classified the courses by identifying them as either sustainability-focused or inclusive, according to the definitions provided by AASHE; a justification was written for every course identified. The courses were also assigned to one or more SDGs – in the end, and 16 out of the 17 SDGs are represented by the courses on the list.
The list of courses and their classification was then submitted to the director of every study program by the Graduate Studies and Student Success Service for validation and some corrections were made with their input.
Please note that courses with the acronym "EUR" are courses offered jointly with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) as part of the joint INRS-UQAM master's and doctoral programs in urban studies.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Not applicable; no courses with multiple offerings or sections were included

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:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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