| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 43.88 |
| Liaison | Matt Wolsfeld |
| Submission Date | Jan. 30, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Saskatchewan
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
5.60 / 14.00 |
Margret
Asmuss Sustainability coordinator The office of sustainability |
Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses with sustainability content::
| Undergraduate | Graduate | |
| Total number of courses offered by the institution | 3,018 | 1,377 |
| Number of sustainability courses offered | 33 | 14 |
| Number of courses offered that include sustainability | 91 | 16 |
Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):
Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):
Date Revised: Feb. 4, 2015
Number of years covered by the data:
A copy of the institution’s inventory of its course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
An inventory of the institution's course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
The website URL where the inventory of course offerings with sustainability content is publicly available:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the course inventory:
Based on our university's definition of sustainability, we identifed sustainability focused and sustainability related courses in the U of S curriculum. Using the open courseware program, the information about the course offerings is publicly available and thoroughly searchable. Initially, a set of search terms were used to filter out likely courses from this database. These search terms were:
• Renewable
• Sustainable (sustainable/sustainability)
• Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
• Urbanization, urban-planning
• Globalization
• Biodiversity
• Conserve (conservation)
• Environment
• Ecosystem
• Biosphere
• Stewardship
• Impact assessment
• Climate change, global warming
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Ecological footprint, carbon footprint
• Deforestation
• Greenwashing
• Pollution
• Extinction
• Non-renewable
• Remediation
• Desertification
The following information was tracked for each course.
• Course title
• Course number
• Instructor name
• Link to syllabus
• Course description
• College/department of the course
• Link to open courseware site
When the open courseware inventory was completed we had a fairly thorough scan of where and how sustainability is present in the University’s curriculum. At this point the spreadsheet was used to reach out to the professors of the individual courses. It was important to us to know whether the instructors themselves identified the courses as sustainability-related or sustainability-focused, and their assessment of where the course fell was respected in cases in which were able to successfully communicate with them.
How did the institution count courses with multiple offerings or sections in the inventory?:
A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted (if different from the options outlined above):
Which of the following course types were included in the inventory?:
| Yes or No | |
| Internships | No |
| Practicums | Yes |
| Independent study | No |
| Special topics | No |
| Thesis/dissertation | No |
| Clinical | No |
| Physical education | Yes |
| Performance arts | No |
Does the institution designate sustainability courses in its catalog of course offerings?:
Does the institution designate sustainability courses on student transcripts?:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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