| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.28 |
| Liaison | Geory Kurtzhals |
| Submission Date | Jan. 4, 2022 |
University of Notre Dame
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
7.54 / 14.00 |
Geory
Kurtzhals Sr. Director Office of Sustainability |
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 | 1,955 | 959 |
| Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 60 | 40 |
| Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 48 | 22 |
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 :
The University of Notre Dame has developed campus-wide course attributes in order to better track courses that actively contribute to sustainability. These courses are reviewed on a semester basis in order to earn the respective course attributes. Students then utilize these attributes when searching for applicable courses. Working with the University Registrar, an export of all course offerings that earned these course attributes was provided.
Those attributes include:
Sus 1 - Design: Course that directly address sustainable design, including engineering, architecture, and other solutions to environmental problems.
Sus 2 - Impacts: Courses which center on impact assessment, including the science of environmental problems and historical, narrative, and sociological descriptions of those impacts.
Sus 3 - Social Institutions: Courses centered on social institutions that affect environmental problems and sustainable solutions to those problems, including business and economics, law, politics, sociology, and religion.
Sus 4 - Individual Behavior & Values: Individual behavior and values that affect environmental problems and sustainable solutions to those problems, including psychology, ethics, and religious values.
ENST - Energy Studies: Technical and non-technical courses which prepare students for the complexities of the world's energy challenges.
RSES - Resiliency and Sustainability of Engineering Systems: Technical and non-technical courses that address the specific impact of design decisions in the pursuit of sustainable and resilient global development.
In the spreadsheet, you will see one or more of the above course attributes associated with individual programs listed next to each class. If the course counts for another credit in a department on top of of the sustainability designations, you will see that program of study's course attribute(s) listed.
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:
Courses with multiple offerings or sections were only counted once. If the course counts towards multiple requirements or programs of study, additional course attributes are listed next to the title.
Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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.