3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Departmental CreditUpper Division
The study of philosophical concepts, principles, and theories of sustainability as they pertain to building methods, materials, systems, and occupants. To provide a foundation for evaluation of materials, processes, and applications of design components for environmentally responsible. Field trips will be required.
Learning Outcomes1Define sustainability and assess the ways that sustainable design strategies, processes, and products may be integrated effectively into the built environment.
2Identify complex social, ecological, and economic dimensions that affect the well-being of humans, neighborhoods, communities, and ecological systems.
3Apply critical thinking skills to explain how green building methods affect the way built environments are designed, constructed, and operated.
4Utilize appropriate methodological tools to analyze sustainable problems and provide environmentally responsible solutions for a green-building scenario.
5Articulate a comprehensive, progressive world view that integrates diverse approaches to sustainability.
6Utilize USGBC materials and other educational sources to explain the LEED rating system, LEED professional credentials, and Green Building principles and techniques preparatory to obtaining the LEED Green Associate credential.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.