Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.87
Liaison Kevin Kirsche
Submission Date June 22, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Georgia
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.11 / 14.00 Nate Shear
Sustainability Metrics Intern
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 16,504 15,302
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 1,003 995
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 1,949 1,799

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
18.07

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
117

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
33

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
28.21

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?:
Two

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Using CIP codes we were able to label courses as sustainability-focused and sustainability-inclusive.

Sustainability courses are those courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability and/or on understanding or solving one or more major sustainability challenge (e.g. the course contributes toward achieving principles outline in the Earth Charter)

Courses that include sustainability are those courses that are primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporate a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, include one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrate sustainability issues throughout the course.

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:
Courses were counted each semester they were offered during the two year time period. From Fall 2018 to Summer 2020

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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