Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	65.69
Liaison	Alan Turnquist
Submission Date	July 24, 2023

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Michigan Technological University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	8.26 / 14.00	Clare Fidler Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability and Resilience

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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	1,740	808
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	24	14
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	100	56

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

7.61

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:

78.26

Documentation

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

MTU_Sustainability_Course_Index_2022_1.xlsx

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

Two

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

The inventory was collected by reading through descriptions of each course (undergraduate and graduate). Course descriptions included phrases or topics of sustainability, sustainable development, social/economic/environmental impacts of systems, etc. In addition, the UN Sustainable Development Goals and keyword phrases suggested in the University of Toronto's report available at https://data.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SUSTAINABLE-DEVELOPMENT-conceptual-report.pdf was used as a guide in determining sustainability offerings.

The original data was compared to the 2022-2023 Course Catalog. New courses were added to the inventory and courses that are no longer offered were deleted from the inventory.

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:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Link to course catalogs
Undergraduate Course Catalog: https://www.mtu.edu/registrar/pdfs/ug-course-descriptions.pdf
Graduate Course Catalog: https://www.mtu.edu/registrar/pdfs/gr-course-descriptions.pdf