Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	59.67
Liaison	Luc Surprenant
Submission Date	Dec. 23, 2022

STARS v2.2

Université de Montréal
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	11.50 / 14.00	Luc Surprenant Consultant, Sustainable Development Vice rector's office, Finances and Infrastructures

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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	1,729	1,463
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	34	25
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	247	171

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

14.94

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

82.86

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

UdeM_STARS_Sustainability_Course_List_A2022_final_en-US.pdf

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 :

Important note: the Universite de Montreal's 2022 statement for AC1 credit only targets courses that are directly or indirectly related to sustainable development.

Sustainability classification used in the document provided:
-d-DD : sustainability focused;
-i-DD : sustainability-related (or sustainability-inclusive).

Also, the level of courses are identified as the following:
-1CYC: undergraduate
-CSUP: graduate

The EDI criteria-based course analysis conducted in 2019 has not been neither renewed nor updated. Therefore it does not figure in our 2022 report.

1. Methodology
Methodology for identifying sustainability courses
The title and description of courses that may include sustainability content were analysed through a process that detected the presence of specified keywords from a predetermined list of term or abbreviation developed to this end. A sorting was, afterward, performed according to the output:
a. The courses with negative output (does not contain at least one of the term or abbreviation in their title or descriptive) were identified as such and weren’t analyzed further.
b. Those with positive output, but without any sustainability content, were qualified as “false positive” after being identified visually.
c. The courses with a positive output with visually confirmed sustainability content were sorted as “sustainability-focused” or “sustainability-related” accordingly to STARS criteria (AASHE, 2019).
Since the methodology was verified and approved, through its output, by the professorial community (including Faculty and department members) in 2016, no consultation about the identified list of sustainability courses was done.

2. Courses considered
Some courses have been excluded from the total number, in respect with the criteria of STARS, considering the lack of stability in content or the absence of specific topics. The following courses were specifically targeted trough keyword search and visual identification:
a. PhD Comprehensive Examination
b. Internship
c. Practicum courses
d. Research project
e. Thesis presentation courses (Master and Ph. D)
f. Directed study courses/special topic course/directed reading
g. Seminar courses
h. Stage
i. Methodology courses

3. Keyword lists
Three lists of keyword were developed to be able to discriminate the courses that may contain some component of sustainability from those who don’t; courses with EDI-related content; and courses to be excluded.
The sustainability content and exclusion analyses were done using regular expressions (Regexp) using R studio (RStudio Team (2018). RStudio: Integrated Development for R. RStudio, Inc., Boston, MA URL http://www.rstudio.com/.). For transparency reason, the list here contain both the keywords and the syntax used.
The EDI-related content analysis was done using SQL queries. For transparency reason, the list here contains both the keywords and the syntax used.

Sustainability content analysis
The Sustainability Policy of the University of Montreal (Université de Montréal, 2014) and the definition of sustainability of the Earth Charter (as suggested by the technical manual of STARS v.2.2) were used as substrate to create the following list of word:

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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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:

References:

AASHE, 2016. STARS, Technical Manual, Version 2.1, Administrative Update One, Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. 316 p. URL: https://stars.aashe.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/STARS-2.2-Technical-Manual.pdf

Université de Montréal, 2014. Politique de développement durable, Recueil officiel : règlements, directives, politiques et procédures. 5 p. URL: https://secretariatgeneral.umontreal.ca/public/secretariatgeneral/documents/doc_officiels/reglements/administration/adm10_50-Politique_developpement_durable.pdf

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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.

STARS v2.2

Université de Montréal AC-1: Academic Courses

Université de Montréal
AC-1: Academic Courses