Hello! Thank you for providing feedback for the UC Berkeley 2017-2020 Sustainability Course Inventory completed by the UCB Office of Sustainability.
This inventory, covering courses from the 2017-2018, 2018-2019, and 2019-2020 academic years, is a product of UC Berkeley's 2021 submission to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System v.2.2, or STARS, which judges campuses on academic coursework and dozens of other sustainability metrics. The inventory uses the following definitions to categorize courses:
“Sustainability-focused”: a course that views topics through the lens of sustainability. The course title or description does not have to use the term “sustainability” to count as sustainability-focused if the primary and explicit focus of the course is on the interdependence of ecological and social/economic systems or a major sustainability challenge.
“Sustainability-related”: a course that devotes at least one unit or section to a sustainability topic or has direct applications in sustainability fields.
To review and submit feedback, please follow these instructions:
1. View the full sustainability course inventory here:
https://sustainability.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/public_ucb_sustainability_course_offerings_ay_2017-18_to_2019-20_0.xlsx 2. Press Ctrl+F (Command+F for Mac users) to open the search bar
3. Type in the course code (course title, as listed under the UCB Course Catalog) in the search bar and press enter
4. Review column F in the Excel sheet to view the sustainability classification ("Sustainability-focused" vs. "Sustainability-related")
5. Submit feedback using the following Google Form
*Note: This project mapped courses offered from the 2017-2020 school years, so some of the listed courses may be outdated.
You can read over the Office of Sustainability news item, which contains external links to the STARS report, here:
https://sustainability.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley%E2%80%99s-sustainability-course-offerings-make-almost-50-all-campus-courses