Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.52
Liaison Maria Kirrane
Submission Date July 28, 2022

STARS v2.2

University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork
IN-27: Online Sustainability Course

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 0.50 Maria Kirrane
Sustainability Officer
Office of the Director of Buildings and Estates
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Has the institution offered a free, sustainability-focused course on the public internet in which students were enrolled within the previous three years?:
Yes

Title and a brief description of the institution’s free, online sustainability course:
UW0005 - University Wide Module In Sustainability.
‘Putting education for sustainability in its place: put yourself in the Picture’

An online university wide module in sustainability developed through partnership and collaboration across all sectors of UCC campus and beyond. A fundamental focus of the development of the module was and is around sustainability citizenship. To provide students with a broadly based interdisciplinary introduction to sustainability issues as a foundation for 'sustainability citizenship'.
It has been developed freely by all participants involved in course and content and is provided freely to all participants enrolling. The module is open to students and staff of the university as well as the general public. The module is available for additional credit, Continuing Professional Development, or a UCC Green Campus Digital Badge.
More information regarding the online Sustainability module is attached below.

Website URL where information about the free, online sustainability course is available:

Optional Fields

Number of individuals taking the institution’s free, online sustainability course in the most recent year offered:
140

Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
https://reg.ucc.ie/curriculum/modules/?mod=uw0005

https://www.ucc.ie/en/greencampus/practice/teaching-and-learning/university-wide-module-on-sustainability/

http://www.ucc.ie/modules/descriptions/page103.html#UW0005

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