| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 63.21 |
| Liaison | Mark Klapatch-Mathias |
| Submission Date | June 30, 2021 |
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
AC-1: Academic Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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9.89 / 14.00 |
Grace
Coggio Sustainability Faculty Fellow Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning |
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings
| Undergraduate | Graduate | |
| Total number of courses offered by the institution | 1,171 | 211 |
| Number of sustainability-focused courses offered | 52 | 0 |
| Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered | 113 | 0 |
Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
11.94
Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department
30
Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
23
Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
76.67
Documentation
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 :
Staff in the Office of Sustainability read every course description offered by the university. Any course that sounded like it may be sustainability focused or may include sustainability was flagged. Sustainability focused courses consisted of any courses that specifically aimed to teach students about sustainability by addressing social/economic/environmental dimensions. Courses that include sustainability are courses that do not directly focus on sustainability, but rather include one or more dimensions of sustainability, look at a given topic through the lens of sustainability, or look at a sustainability topic through the lens of a different topic.
Once the initial courses were identified, staff discussed how each should be designated. If staff had differing views of whether it was a sustainability course, included sustainability, or did not include sustainability, the lower option was always used to be conservative. They then looked up each course individually in the course catalogs to determine the last year each course was taught. Some courses will count no matter who teaches them so the course descriptions is followed by (All) in the course inventory. Others are only sustainability focused or include sustainability if a specific faculty member went through the Kinnickinnic Project to redesign that specific course. Staff then reached out to department chairs to verify data. All courses on the attached spreadsheet are undergraduate courses.
We also followed up with a survey to all faculty and instructional academic staff which informed us what to removed from the inventory and what to add.
Once the initial courses were identified, staff discussed how each should be designated. If staff had differing views of whether it was a sustainability course, included sustainability, or did not include sustainability, the lower option was always used to be conservative. They then looked up each course individually in the course catalogs to determine the last year each course was taught. Some courses will count no matter who teaches them so the course descriptions is followed by (All) in the course inventory. Others are only sustainability focused or include sustainability if a specific faculty member went through the Kinnickinnic Project to redesign that specific course. Staff then reached out to department chairs to verify data. All courses on the attached spreadsheet are undergraduate courses.
We also followed up with a survey to all faculty and instructional academic staff which informed us what to removed from the inventory and what to add.
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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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The website listed only includes courses that are a result from the Kinnickinnic Project. All other courses can be found in the excel document.
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