Pratt Institute
AC-1: Academic Courses

During the 2016/17 academic year, The Provost’s office and the Center for Sustainable Design Strategies (CSDS) launched a new initiative called the Departmental Sustainability Coordinator (DSC). Each DSCs role is to promote sustainability in their home department, focusing on enhancing the curriculum and promoting the achievements of students and faculty. As a group, the DSCs meet regularly to share resources and best practices. The DSCs represent departments in the Schools of Architecture, Art, Design, and Liberal Arts and Studies (the four largest schools). They have met monthly to determine which courses in each department are sustainability courses (having learning objectives specifically concerning social and environmental sustainability) and which courses have at least some sustainability content (this may include individual assignments, meetings, studio projects, or lectures within a course). In 2023/24, the DSC collected course data across participating departments for the 2022-23 academic year, counting each section offered as an individual course. In addition, the student research interns employed by the Center for Sustainable Design Strategies reviewed the courses offered in departments which do no have DSCs. They reviewed the master course list for 2022/23 provided by the registrar, and sorted the courses based on the course descriptions listed on the course registration portal. The numbers for "Sustainability-Focused Courses" and "Sustainability-Inclusive Courses" in the attached Excel inventory reflect the summary of this process. The overall course numbers reflect the total number of sections offered across the Institute at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. The enclosed Excel file provides a breakdown of each reporting department's totals.

Data on courses collected by the individual departments through the Department Sustainability Coordinator initiative and CSDS student research interns. The 1st tab is the summary for Part 1 for AC-1 and the 2nd tab is the summary for Part 2. The data for total courses was generated by the Registrar's office for every single course offered (including physical education, internships, special topics, senior theses, and related courses). *** NOTE TO REVIEWERS: Pratt counts courses for AC1 such that 1 section = 1 course. This is the way that the registrar provides us with the list of courses offered at the Institute so we keep this organization as we sort Sust-focused courses, Sust-inclusive courses, non-sust courses and excluded courses. When we create the inventory with descriptions, some of our faculty provide the descriptions for each section and some provide a list of descriptions for each course title.