| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.48 |
| Liaison | Abraham (Avi) Henn |
| Submission Date | Sept. 28, 2020 |
Northern Arizona University
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
7.69 / 14.00 |
Matthew
Muchna Sustainability Manager Office of Sustainability |
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 | 2,009 | 788 |
| Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 132 | 66 |
| Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 24 | 14 |
Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
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?:
A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
The Provost's office and the Office of Curriculum, Learning Design and Academic Assessment reviewed the entire NAU catalog and classified sustainability courses using the UN Sustainability Goals and the AASHE Sustainability definition as the guideline.
Step 1: Used the following list of search strings (a string means all characters must be present in the string for it to pull the course) to query our course descriptions and course titles:
• Accountable consumption
• Accountable production
• Clean energy
• Climate change
• Conserv
• Economic justice
• Efficien
• Environmental
• Global warming
• Green
• Hunger
• Impoverish
• Inequ
• Steward
• Poverty
• Public health
• Responsible consumption
• Responsible production
• Social justice
• Sustain
Note that SQL assumes a “wild card” on each end of the search string – i.e., “Sustain” will retrieve “Sustainable,” “Sustainability,” “Sustaining,” and “Sustains.” Also, the SQL is coded to ignore upper- and lower-case.
Step 2: Course titles and descriptions were reviewed. Duplicates were removed. Many courses are offered at different levels at NAU, and they are different courses, as they include different content and skills, depending on level, even if the title is the same. For example, a course that is a 200-level, 400-level and 500-level course is taught with three different course designs to cover the material for different audiences. Taking one of these courses by a student precludes the ability to take the course at a different level.
How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Reporting done by the Provost Office.
I am currently working with University Marketing to create a specific web-page of all the Sustainability course offerings at NAU to better show case our majors, minors, certificates, and graduate sustainability offerings.
Information provided by: laurie.dickson@nau.edu
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.