Courses Appropriate for New Students (CANS)
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Courses carrying the Courses Appropriate for New Students (CANS) attribute are those identified as being accessible to first-year students, particularly in their first semester in college. These courses have seats reserved for incoming first-year students and do not have prerequisite requirements.
Sustainability (SUST)
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Oberlin College and Conservatory is committed to environmental stewardship through design and implementation of institutional policies, through management of energy flows and material cycles, and through research and teaching. Our definition of sustainability is derived from the widely-cited definition from the 1983 Brundtland Commission of the U.N. - “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Oberlin recognizes that sustainable systems (e.g., institutions and communities) must be environmentally sound, socially just, and economically viable. A consideration of the intersection between these dimensions is fundamental to both assessment and promotion of sustainability.
The Committee on Environmental Sustainability reviews and approves all courses carrying the SUST attribute.
Criteria for SUST Courses
Academic courses that concentrate on sustainability, including its social, economic, and environmental dimensions or examine an issue or topic using sustainability as a lens are termed sustainability-focused courses and are assigned the SUST attribute. Sustainability-related courses include a course component or module or concentrate on a key principle or issue of sustainability.
These course definitions come from STARS, a self-reporting system developed by the Association of the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). Oberlin is a charter member of AASHE and uses STARS to track progress toward achieving its sustainability goals, relative to other colleges and universities.
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