Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.22
Liaison Jay Price
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Tennessee at Knoxville
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.69 / 14.00 Jessica GerberDolan
Data Analyst
Facilities Services
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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 4,142 4,194
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 25 16
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 141 83

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
3.18

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
64

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
52

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
81.25

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?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
The archived course descriptions online, from the 2020-2021 academic year, contained listed courses in each subject of study.

All classes in departments that are known to have sustainability focuses or learning outcomes have been submitted by the teacher to be part of the SDG's which have been recorded by the Center for Global Engagement.

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:
The data was collected by course title only without separate sections in the data inputted.

Optional Fields 

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:
https://catalog.utk.edu/content.php?catoid=24&navoid=3123
https://catalog.utk.edu/content.php?catoid=25&navoid=3199

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