Overall Rating | Gold |
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Overall Score | 77.43 |
Liaison | Elida Erickson |
Submission Date | Feb. 28, 2022 |
University of California, Santa Cruz
AC-1: Academic Courses
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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12.16 / 14.00 |
Elida
Erickson Sustainability Director Sustainability Office |
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 | 1,255 | 492 |
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 88 | 12 |
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 170 | 59 |
Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
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?:
A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies (IRAPS) generated a list of all graduate and undergraduate courses that were offered in academic year 2017-18.
The deans sent out an email to their faculty and staff requesting that they review their department's offerings from this list and identify those that fit the criteria of being a sustainability course or a course that includes sustainability (definitions and examples from STARS technical manual were provided) and provide a rationale for why a course was designated as either.
The Sustainability Office reviewed the department's response and augmented this final list by reviewing the course catalog from each department to identify further courses.
The final list was shared with departments and submitted to AASHE STARS.
Courses were counted once, regardless of how many times they were offered. Individually-directed courses (e.g. thesis, independent study, practicum), and/or special topic courses were excluded from the total course count as well as the course count for sustainability courses.
How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.