Sustainable Housing CurriculumDepartment of Apparel, Housing, and Resource, Management

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Sustainability:

•Conceptual framework for the study of housing

•The balance and interrelationship of the built and natural environment

Environmental Concerns:

•The use of natural resources to provide and inhabit housing

•The impact of housing design, construction, management, maintenance, and inhabitation on the natural environment

•The provision of healthy, safe and supportive housing

Housing Students

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College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

Virginia Tech

•Integrate sustainability into their concept of housing

•Prepare to think, analyze and consider the environmental impact of housing choices

•Will be professionals who provide safe and healthy housing in balance with nature

Selected Courses

Kathleen Parrott, Ph.D.

JoAnn Emmel, Ph.D.

Julia Beamish, Ph.D.

•AHRM 4604

Housing: Energy and the Environment

•AHRM 2614/2634

Introductory Residential Technologies

•AHRM 4614

Advanced Residential Technologies

•AHRM 2604/2614

House Planning

•AHRM 3624

House Planning II

•AHRM 4624

Advanced Kitchen and Bath Design

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