Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	56.33
Liaison	Taylor Smith
Submission Date	Feb. 25, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	5.29 / 14.00

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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	2,829	1,345
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	23	12
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	63	39

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

3.28

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

59.65

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:

Sustainability_courses.xlsx

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:

One

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

The sustainability professional, or their designee, reviews the current University undergraduate and graduate course catalogues and uses the keywords/phrases in Table 1 to identity courses with content related to sustainability. The department, course titles, numbers and brief descriptions are placed into a excel file.

Table 1: Keywords/phrases to include in search
Adaptation
Change
Circular Economy
Clean Air
Clean Water
Climate Change
Conservation
Eco
Ecology
Energy
Environment / Environmental
Green
Justice
Local
Mitigation
Natural Systems
Pollution
Recycling
Regulations
Renewable
Resilience
Restorative
Social
Solar
Sustainability/ Sustainable
Systems/Systems Thinking
Wetland
Wind

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:

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Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:

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