Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.53
Liaison Dedee DeLongpre Johnston
Submission Date July 27, 2018
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Wake Forest University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.17 / 14.00 Dedee DeLongpre Johnston
Chief Sustainability Officer
Office of Sustainability
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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 5,835 1,931
Number of sustainability courses offered 58 66
Number of courses offered that include sustainability 384 42

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
7.08

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):
35

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):
28

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
80

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?:
Three

A brief description of the methodology used to determine the total number of courses offered and to identify sustainability course offerings, including the definitions used and the process for reviewing and/or validating the course inventory :

The methodology to complete the inventory was two-fold: 1) faculty were asked to self-identify their courses and provide descriptions; 2) staff compared the list of respondents and courses to both the environmental program curriculum and the courses that have been generated from the sustainability-across-the-curriculum workshop and followed up with faculty whose courses seemed to be missing.


How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted (if different from the options outlined above):
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Are the following course types included in the inventory? :
Yes (included) or No (not included)
Internships No
Practicums No
Independent study No
Special topics Yes
Thesis / dissertation No
Clinical Yes
Physical education No
Performance arts Yes

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Future course inventories will indicate which courses offer multiple sections so that reviewers can understand how the number of courses in the inventory reconciles with the number of courses claimed in Part 1.

In Part 2, Sustainability (SUS) is an interdisciplinary program, not a "department," and is therefore excluded from both the numerator and denominator.


Future course inventories will indicate which courses offer multiple sections so that reviewers can understand how the number of courses in the inventory reconciles with the number of courses claimed in Part 1.

In Part 2, Sustainability (SUS) is an interdisciplinary program, not a "department," and is therefore excluded from both the numerator and denominator.

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