[Save] Harvard Green Campus Initiative - New Course Offering

[Maggie Husak]

The Harvard Green Campus Initiative is now offering a new course through 
the Harvard University Extension School:

         ENVR E-117
         Sustainability: The Challenge of Changing Our Institutions

Our website is up and running and enrollment has begun! Registration period 
lasts from August 18 -September 21, with late registration running from 
September 22 - 28.

Class begins Monday, September 15th!

Visit http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre117/ to preview:
    *         course description
    *         syllabus with lecture outline and course readings
    *         links to information on registration and distance learning 
options
    *         additional course-related information
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Course information:

Mondays, 7:35-9:35pm, September 15, 2003 - January 26, 2004
Harvard Hall, Rm 104 (or online via the Distance Education Program)
Non-credit, $300; Undergraduate credit, $575; Graduate credit, $1425
Registration for Fall Courses begins on August 18, 2003.

The principles and practice of environmental sustainability for 
institutions and individuals will be taught and demonstrated in this 
course. The course will focus on the university sector as a case study for 
examining how organizations with complex structures make a myriad of 
decisions with environmental consequences. The course will provide students 
with a thorough exploration of methods and approaches that can be drawn 
upon to catalyze organizations, such as universities, to pursue 
environmental sustainability.

Illustrative examples of university sustainability programs, including 
campus planning, building design and operations, energy supply, purchasing 
practices, food services and waste management among others, will be 
presented. These examples will be further explored to reveal strategies for 
generating engagement, learning capacity and behavioral change at the level 
of both the individual and the organization. Financial, environmental, 
political, cognitive and organizational dimensions will be addressed.

The course is designed to cover three key topic areas:

1.      Institutional Impact
2.      Institutional Operations
3.      Institutional Transformation

Students will ideally leave this course with the knowledge, understanding 
and confidence to develop their own capacities as change agents, leaders or 
catalysts for generating institutional commitment to environmental 
sustainability within a myriad of organizational settings.

To request a syllabus via email, please contact Maggie Husak, 
<mailto:maggie_husak at harvard.edu>maggie_husak at harvard.edu 
<http://www.dce.harvard.edu/extension/2003-04/courses/envr.jsp#e-117>(Click 
here for the Harvard University Extension School course description and 
details.)

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This course will be offered under the umbrella of the Environmental Studies 
program at the Harvard University Extension School, and will be available 
online as a part of the Distance Education Program.  The Distance Education 
Program allows a student to take this course from any location as long as 
s/he can access the course website.  For details on Distance Education 
through the Extension School, visit 
<http://www.extension.harvard.edu/DistanceEd/>http://www.extension.harvard.edu/DistanceEd/.

REMEMBER!  If you are a Harvard employee, you may be eligible for the 
Tuition Assistance Program which would enable you to receive course credit 
for a mere $40!  What a steal!  For more information, go to 
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/2003-04/register/payment.jsp#tap.

For information on registration, please visit the Harvard University 
Extension School website at http://www.dce.harvard.edu/extension/ For 
further information on course content, please contact Maggie Husak, 
<mailto:maggie_husak at harvard.edu>maggie_husak at harvard.edu.

To learn more about the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, please visit our 
website at http://www.greencampus.harvard.edu.


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