Overall Rating	Bronze - expired
Overall Score	32.82
Liaison	Katharine Glenn
Submission Date	March 6, 2020
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	14.00 / 14.00	Katharine Glenn Sustainability Coordinator Center for Campus 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	358	15
Number of sustainability courses offered	22	4
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	97	8

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

35.12

Part 2

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

None

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:

100

Course Inventory

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

mcodatabaseSUSAssessment_STARS.xlsx

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

Two

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 :

Comprehensive review of course Master Course Outlines, including course descriptions and course objectives were reviewed. Those courses that were core courses in either Sustainability Degree- Environmental Studies BA (EST) or Sustainability BS (SUS) met sustainability course offering definition provided by STARS manual. A review of Course Objectives for both Graduate and Undergraduate courses was conducted and those courses with one or more Sustainability course objective were counted as "Including Sustainability".

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	No
Practicums	No
Independent study	No
Special topics	No
Thesis / dissertation	No
Clinical	No
Physical education	No
Performance arts	No

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

https://www.paulsmiths.edu/registrar/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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