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Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
30

The total number of courses offered :
4,188

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:
1 Air Quality Engineering 2 Introduction to Sustainable Engineering 3 China's Environmental Crisis 4 Economics of Global Warming 5 Energy and the Environment 6 Energy, Environment, Globalization in the Americas 7 Environmental Economics 8 History of Sustainable Architecture 9 Materials, Energy and Environment 10 Perspectives on the Urban Environment 11 Processing Design 12 Sustainable Urbanism Studio 13 Life Cycle Assessment 14 Case Studies in Sustainability 15 Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering 16 Introduction to Green Chemistry 17 LEED Building and Green Design Concepts 18 The Role of the Environment in the Collapse of Ancient Societies 19 Environmental History and Politics Since Silent Spring 20 The Sustainable Business: Energy and Enviornmental Policies 21 Sustainable Design Synthesis Prep 22 Special Topics: Sustainable Energy Systems Management and Policy 23 Sustainable Engineering Project 24 Sustainable Community Development 25 Environmental Engineering 26 Environment Today: Biodiversity and Environmental Justice 27 Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering Design 28 Special Topics: Environment, Engineering and Society 29 Environment Today: Biodiversity and Environmental Justice 30 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Green Design

The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Carnegie Mellon University does not deliberately distinguish between courses that focus or concentrate on the concept of sustainability throughout the course and courses that relate to an aspect of sustainability or include sustainability as part of the course in its definition of sustainability in the curriculum. However, the University does offer courses that could be defined as either sustainability-focused or related courses. Each of listed courses reflect such implied sustainability-focused content and curriculum. The sustainability course inventory can be found at the Carnegie Mellon University's Environmental Education website. It should be noted, however, that the website has not been updated since 2009. Therefore, another course inventory had been separately created in a Microsoft Excel document and attached to reflect the recent changes among the University's course offerings in year 2010 (spring and fall semesters).

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