Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 57.98
Liaison Jonna Korpi
Submission Date June 2, 2016
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STARS v2.0

University of Minnesota, Duluth
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.99 / 14.00 Irina Bezroukova
Senior Data Analyst
UMD Institutional Research
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Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses with sustainability content::
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 2,076 591
Number of sustainability courses offered 43 1
Number of courses offered that include sustainability 35 3

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):
30

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):
42

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):
An inventory of the institution's course offerings with sustainability content (and course descriptions):

The UMD Liberal Education Requirement focuses on preparing students to become engaged global citizens. Students are required to take courses outside of their concentration and, in the Fall of 2012, Sustainability was added as an area of emphasis to the liberal education requirement. Courses that meet this Sustainability Lib Ed Requirement are considered "sustainability courses."

The University of Minnesota-Duluth offers courses, throughout various departments, that relate to sustainability. Educating students about sustainability is a theme in a variety of courses offered by the university, and we include these as "courses that include sustainability."


The website URL where the inventory of course offerings with sustainability content is publicly available:
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the course inventory:

For 'sustainability courses', we used the current Liberal Education Requirements listing.

For 'courses that include sustainability', staff and interns in the UMD Sustainability office searched the course catalog to find courses that include sustainability. Follow-up emails and phone calls to faculty for questions helped refine this list.


How did the institution count courses with multiple offerings or sections in the inventory?:
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 (if different from the options outlined above):
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Which of the following course types were included in the inventory?:
Yes or No
Internships Yes
Practicums Yes
Independent study Yes
Special topics Yes
Thesis/dissertation Yes
Clinical Yes
Physical education Yes
Performance arts Yes

Does the institution designate sustainability courses in its catalog of course offerings?:
Yes

Does the institution designate sustainability courses on student transcripts?:
No

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The Labovitz School of Business and Economics has established a "sustainability cluster" for all business and economics students.
http://lsbe.d.umn.edu/about/sustainability


The Labovitz School of Business and Economics has established a "sustainability cluster" for all business and economics students.
http://lsbe.d.umn.edu/about/sustainability

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