Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	71.36
Liaison	Michael Chapman
Submission Date	Sept. 20, 2023

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Nova Scotia Community College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	12.70 / 14.00	Anna Jessop Sustainable Development Coordinator Facilities and Engineering

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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	3,912	0
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	44	0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	611	0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

16.74

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:

93.33

Documentation

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

Sustainability_Course_Inventory_2023.xlsx

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 :

A working group of sustainability staff, curriculum consultants, program Lead Academic Chairs to review curriculum and identify sustainability courses. A list of key sustainability words was identified through framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and was critically reviewed by the working group. The College curriculum management system was then mined for the keywords to create a short-list of courses of interested. This short list was then screened and further assessed by staff in the Sustainability team for the final 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:

Courses delivered with multiple offerings or multiple sections were counted as one course, not multiple courses. Course of the same course code that were offered in multiple programs or department were each counted for each of their unique offering but only once.

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:

http://www.nscc.ca/sustainability

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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