Overall Rating | Gold |
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Overall Score | 70.92 |
Liaison | Amy Brunvand |
Submission Date | Sept. 12, 2023 |
University of Utah
AC-1: Academic Courses
Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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11.53 / 14.00 |
Jennifer
Watt Director of Sustainability Education Sustainability Office |
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 | 2,177 | 1,117 |
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 58 | 32 |
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 326 | 177 |
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 :
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:
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:
NOTES
Sustainability—Limited (SUSL): Course content incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates two of the three sustainability concepts throughout the course.
Sustainability—Complete (SUSC): Course content identifies and describes the relationship between the course topic, equity, economy, and environmental dimensions.
* The SUSC,SUSL attributes changed to a single SUST in Fall 2023, but this inventory was for the previous year. A pdf of previous requirements is attached.
SOURCES
General Catalog and Class Schedules.
URL: http://www.utah.edu/students/catalog.php
Course descriptions and SUSC/L course designations are listed in the General Catalog and in the Course Schedules each semester.
OBIA provided the total number of courses offered by the institution for a one-year period (Fall 2021- Summer 2022).
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.