New Courses for UN Sustainable Development Goals Initiative

Undergraduates at Northwestern can discover courses and explore the issues they’re passionate about through an initiative that enables students to search for courses related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). To learn more about this initiative, please visit the Northwestern Roberta Institute for Global Affairs website.


This form is managed by Northwestern Buffett and is intended for faculty or administrative staff who would like to add UN SDG course tags to their courses, but do not yet know which UN SDGs apply to their courses. Upon submission of this form, Northwestern Buffett will run an automated program to recommend one or more of the 17 UN SDGs as a tag for your course and reach back to you for feedback and approval as well as next steps with the Registrar’s office. More descriptive course descriptions will result in more accurate recommendations.


Please write Northwestern Buffett’s Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives Samantha Nissen if you have questions or need administrative assistance.

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New and existing course requests will be tagged to the catalog level and rolled over each quarter. Course section requests, will need to be updated each quarter and are recommended for special topics courses.

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If you are submitting a large number of courses, you may instead email the below details to Samantha.Nissen@northwestern.edu.