Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	58.92
Liaison	Caitlin Steele
Submission Date	June 8, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

San Francisco State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.67 / 14.00	Rachelle Caterson Student Assistant Office of 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	4,299	2,191
Number of sustainability courses offered	59	11
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	93	9

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

2.65

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:

9.09

Course Inventory

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

SFSU ENVI_SUST Courses_New_August 2018 edit.xlsx

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

One

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 :

We started by using a list of courses that qualify for SF State's "Environmental Sustainability" graduation requirement ("SF State Studies"). The university's requirement for these classes are that they "must examine some aspect of environmental sustainability. The perspective can be from any area of the university curriculum, such as social sciences, natural sciences, arts, humanities, business, or engineering." Faculty members submit their courses for inclusion and a committee reviews their content against this definition. We designated each of these courses as either "sustainability courses" or "courses that include sustainability." This designation was made using the STARS definitions. Courses that qualified as "sustainability courses" focused on sustainability and included social, environmental, and economic aspects of sustainability. "Courses that included sustainability" specifically listed an aspect of sustainability as part of their curriculum. We supplemented this list by manually searching course descriptions in the SF State course catalog.

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):

Courses with multiple offerings were counted as a single course. Courses that list a lecture plus a lab or discussion section were counted as a single course.

Are the following course types included in the inventory? :

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

Optional Fields

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

http://bulletin.sfsu.edu/sfstatebulletin/undergraduate_education/geoverlay/General_Education_ES_Overlay

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Full department and program list: http://www.sfsu.edu/deptpage/acaddept.htm "Program" is the same as a "Department," but contains fewer than 5 faculty. Had help with collecting data from Eva Allen, Associate, Academic & Institutional Studies Academic Institutional Research