Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 74.81
Liaison Kelli O'Day
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Davis
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.03 / 14.00 Kelli O'Day
Assessment Program Manager
Office of Sustainability
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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 47,796 26,207
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 2,073 292
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 3,659 2,744

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
11.85

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
104

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
67

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
64.42

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 Office of the University Registrar provided the Office of Sustainability with a list of all courses offered during our academic time period (2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19) and a list of course descriptions. We used a keyword search to initially highlight possible sustainability-focused and -inclusive courses. We reviewed their titles and course descriptions to identify the sustainability courses and courses that included sustainability. The definitions used are ones stated or referenced to in the STARS 2.2 Technical Manual. We did not include tutoring, internships, individual studies, thesis units, or TA units in our inventory as these are taken by one student individually at a time. We counted each time a course is offered as a separate course as outlined in the STARS 2.2 Technical Manual. This methodology is consistent throughout all three years and between undergraduate and graduate levels. Therefore, the number of courses offered may not equal the number of courses on the inventory. The inventory only includes the course once, even if it is offered and counted multiple times.

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:
N/A

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Chinyi Lydia Kao, a student employee in the UC Davis Office of Sustainability led in compiling this credit response.

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