Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	66.40
Liaison	C Jane Hagen
Submission Date	Aug. 27, 2021

STARS v2.2

Virginia Commonwealth University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	4.54 / 14.00	Elias Frantz Sustainability Assistant VCU Office of Sustainability

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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	2,215	1,898
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	131	65
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	97	62

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

8.63

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

116

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

16.38

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:

SustainabilityCourses21Final.xlsx

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 :

This information represents the Fall '20 semester, Spring '21 semester. The inventory was completed by having each faculty member tag their own classes as sustainability-focused or sustainability-inclusive. Each class was then confirmed as such by Office of Sustainability by reviewing the course description and syllabus. The STARS definitions were used in identifying these courses, as in sustainability-focused is defined as "the course has a primary and explicit focus on sustainability" and sustainability-inclusive is defined as "the course incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability challenges, issues, and concepts throughout the course".

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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Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:

https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/vcucourses/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

http://bulletin.vcu.edu/graduate/
https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/vcucourses/
https://opds.vcu.edu/media/decision-support/factandfigures/facts-cards/FactCardFinalWebsiteVersion.pdf
https://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/scheduleofclasses/