Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 60.21
Liaison Feletia Lee
Submission Date June 28, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of North Carolina, Wilmington
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.41 / 14.00 Casey Shotton
Sustainability Coordinator
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 1,709 794
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 139 59
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 146 57

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
16.02

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
37

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
34

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
91.89

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 :

Received a list of all courses offered by the university within the last 3 years from the Office of the Registrar. Used the university course catalog to individually review each course to determine if it was inclusive of or focused on one or more of the UN SDGs.


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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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Some courses were excluded from the data, both in the total course count and in the count for sustainability courses. These courses include:



  • Individually-directed courses (e.g. directed independent study, capstone, honors work, practicum, thesis, dissertation)

  • Practice-oriented courses (e.g. internship, service learning, student teaching, clinical practice)

  • Special topics courses (no information on which topics specifically were taught within the last 3 years)

  • Study abroad

  • Continuous Enrollment


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