Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 55.86
Liaison Aldo Pierini
Submission Date Sept. 16, 2021

STARS v2.2

Villanova University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.18 / 14.00
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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 4,311 1,725
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 16 24
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 156 82

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
4.61

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
40

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
20

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
50

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?:
Two

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
In order to complete the course inventory, our team contacted department heads in departments that were identified as offering sustainability courses or courses that include sustainability. The heads of each department were given descriptions of what qualifies as a sustainability course or course that includes sustainability as outlined by STARS. Given the provided criteria, department heads responded by identifying and providing names and course numbers for both graduate and undergraduate courses in each category. Our team then searched official online course references to provide the descriptions for each course.

The office of enrollment management assisted in providing the information for the number of courses offered by the institution. Data for total number of courses offered by the institution is based off of the two academic years of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 (including courses offered over the summer of 2019 and 2020).

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:
Total number of courses offered by the institution are based off of numbers for the 2018-2020 school year and includes the Law School.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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