Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 59.76
Liaison Lindsey MacDonald
Submission Date June 6, 2023

STARS v2.2

Western Washington University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.66 / 14.00 Ashley Olson
Data Ambassador
Sustainability Engagement Institute
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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 3,416 823
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 63 14
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 202 28

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
7.24

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
59

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
51

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
86.44

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?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
For the 2021-22 academic year, we looked through the entire WWU course catalog to identify courses with sustainability focused or inclusive content based on key words pulled from the 17 UN Sustainability Goals also taking into consideration the STARS definitions for sustainability focused and sustainability inclusive.

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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Salish Sea Institute not included in department count.

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