Sustainable Development Goals dataset

This paper introduces an analytic model to gauge the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the course syllabuses of university degree programmes. The model, which consists of four category systems, is devised for the analysis of curricula that are still at an early stage of this process. The model has been tested in Spanish public universities that offer a master’s degree in Advanced Studies in the History of Art. A conventional content analysis has been performed on 762 competencies across 82 subjects in five institutions. The results show that: a) 0.92% of competency codes were aligned with the SDGs, while 13.25% were merely related to them; b) 48.02% of the codes were affected by repetitions of supposedly different competencies; c) there was a mean value of 9.29 competencies per subject, and modal values of 1 and 4 subjects in which each competency was addressed; and d) only 26.12% of the competencies were associated with high-level cognitive processes.