Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 26.56
Liaison Noah Hughes
Submission Date Dec. 31, 2022

STARS v2.2

Modesto Junior College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.94 / 14.00 Noah Hughes
Prof of Earth Sciences
Earth Sciences
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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 3,810 0
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 6 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 125 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
3.44

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
94

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
22

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
23.40

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 :
Using the 2020-2021 Catalog (starting on Page 105) to maintain publicly referenceable sources, I counted any Division listed in the “MJC Departments and Division” section and used the “Instruction In” subsection to identify departments. Total # of undergrad courses determined using online "Class Search" function for each term, searching for "All" section in each term. No sections were excluded (rationale: every section has potential to incorporate sustainability into it). Sustainability Course Offerings were obtained through a faculty survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIw8sbtICaaPBoaW0XIyAS-qFo60LPqjEXV6pB9l7NCQOWTA/viewform?usp=sf_link) Courses cross-referenced to PiratesNet Class Search to fill in section numbers. Only sections from reporting instructors are counted (column I in inventory)

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
We only counted the number of sections taught by the reporting instructors.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
As noted in the inventory, for some courses the number of sections counted only includes one semester (rather than the offerings throughout a full academic year).
Only sections from reporting instructors are counted (column I in inventory). As such, this inventory should be considered as a minimum.

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