Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 52.60
Liaison Hayley Berliner
Submission Date Oct. 23, 2024

STARS v2.2

Trinity College (CT)
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.24 / 14.00 Hayley Berliner
Sustainability Coordinator
Finance & Operations
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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 3,916 111
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 173 8
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 192 16

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
9.66

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
32

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
21

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
65.63

Documentation

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?:
Three

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :

The total number of coursed offered by Trinity College is stated on the Academics website and listed in the course catalog. https://www.trincoll.edu/academics/

We looked through all the course offerings from Spring 2022-Fall 2024, and picked out the courses that were sustainability-focused or sustainability-inclusive based on their course descriptions. We included all courses that included environmental sustainability, financial sustainability, or social sustainability.


How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:

We counted every section of a course, every cross-listing, and every semester that a course was taught as a separate course.


Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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