Syllabi:
- E-119 : Sustainable Buildings: Design, Construction, and Operations (Fall '07)
- E-117: Sustainability - The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions (Spring '08)
Got Questions About This?
Contact:
Jesse Foote
Teaching Fellow E-117
Gosia Sklodowska
Teaching Fellow E-117
Andrea Ruedy
Teaching Fellow E-119
Sustainability Courses at Harvard Extension School
The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is involved directly with two courses from the Harvard Extension School's Environmental Studies Program.
More details for each class are available below:
E-119 : Sustainable Buildings: Design, Construction, and Operations
Fall 2007-2008
John D. Spengler, PhD, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health. Nathan Gauthier, BS, Assistant Director of the Green Campus Initiative, Harvard University. Rafal Schurma, MArch, Principal Architect, VvS. Leith Sharp, MEd, Director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard University.
Location: Science Center Hall A
Meeting Time: Monday7:35-9:35 pm
Our built environment has a substantial impact on energy and material resources as well as being a critical determinant of health, comfort, and productivity for occupants. In response, there are numerous local, national, and international entities adopting green, sustainable criteria for new construction and renovations. This course approaches sustainable development for buildings by examining how building components and systems affect human performance and well being. Sustainable development starts with site planning and evaluation, and proceeds through construction, commissioning, and occupancy phases. The course includes many case studies of historic and contemporary structures exemplifying various sustainability features. The course presents rating systems for high performance buildings developed by the US Green Building Council and other international organizations. Field trips are arranged to tour buildings and green roofs in the Boston area.
E-117: Sustainability - The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions
Spring 2007-2008
John D. Spengler, PhD, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation, Harvard School of Public Health. Leith Sharp, MEd, Director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard University.
Location: 1 Story Street 306
Meeting Time: Wednesday7:35-9:35 pm
This course aims to address the real life challenges of environmental sustainability by building change agent capacities of students who operate within myriad institutional and other contexts. The course begins by exploring the wide range of institutionally related environmental impacts and the associated roles of individuals within these settings. Harvard University is used as a primary case study to illustrate institutional practices, including procurement, utility supply and consumption, building design and operations, transportation, and waste production and recycling. Case study materials are used to explore conceptual models for understanding sustainability and institutional behavior; strategies for revealing hidden impacts of institutions; approaches for achieving behavioral change; systems thinking and integrated design approaches; organizational leadership and facilitation; broad strategies for achieving innovation; building organizational learning capacities; and standards, tools, and other resources that have proven useful for achieving effective institutional change.