Overall Rating Reporter - expired
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Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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Carnegie Mellon University
ER-5: Sustainability Course Identification

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Has the institution developed a definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
Yes

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A copy of the institution's definition of sustainability in the curriculum?:
Carnegie Mellon University teaches numerous environmental courses each semester. Some courses, often with prerequisites, help build expertise in the field of environmental engineering, science, architecture or policy. Many other courses help build environmental literacy, some incorporating environmental content into courses focusing on topics such as writing, history or art and others focusing on specific facets of environment and sustainability.

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Has the institution identified its sustainability-focused and sustainability-related course offerings?:
No

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the inventory:
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Does the institution make its sustainability course inventory publicly available online?:
Yes

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The website URL where the sustainability course inventory is posted:
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 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.

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