Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	67.30
Liaison	Dianne Anderson
Submission Date	Feb. 7, 2020
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New York University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	10.53 / 14.00	Nicholas Liu-Sontag Manager Sustainability

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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	1,592	1,297
Number of sustainability courses offered	115	70
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	221	147

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

19.14

Part 2

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

202

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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

43.07

Course Inventory

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

NYU_Sustainability_Course_List_-_March_2020.xlsx

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

Three

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 :

Data for this submission was provided by NYU’s Office of the University Registrar for Academic Years from 2016 to 2018 (3 year span). In picking out classes that are sustainability-focused or sustainability-themed, sustainability subject matter experts from within the University used the topics below as guides for filtering for sustainability or sustainability-related courses. (1) Environment: human interaction with the environment, green technology, preservation and conservation, energy (2) Social: inequality, economic development, social change, human rights, education, ethics, energy (3) Governance: peacekeeping, ethics, law, public policy The resulting list of courses was further narrowed by the group to create the list of sustainability and sustainability related courses. In order to further narrow the list to 'sustainability-focused' and 'sustainability-related' courses, a keyword search was performed on course titles for likely sustainability-focused terms. The keywords were chosen based on AASHE's credit guidance, but is not considered an exhaustive list of sustainability terms. Keywords: Sustainability Sustainable Environmental Climate change Global warming Renewable energy Green Chemistry Justice Poverty All other remaining courses that were selected by the subject matter experts but did not contain any of the above keywords were deemed 'sustainability-related'.

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):

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Are the following course types included in the inventory? :

	Yes (included) or No (not included)
Internships	Yes
Practicums	Yes
Independent study	No
Special topics	Yes
Thesis / dissertation	No
Clinical	No
Physical education	No
Performance arts	Yes

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