Published on Wednesday, August 05, 2009
A new elective is being offered in the Fall semester, "Topics in Sustainability". This is a two unit course that will cover four areas of Sustainable business in a series of four one-day workshops throughout the semester. The topics covered this semester will be: Values Based Accounting, The Science and Business of Climate Change, Policy as it relates to the Environment, and Green Supply Chain Management. Sustainable Business has evolved beyond a topic of discussion, and grown into a wide set of skills, covering multiple disciplines. Managers hoping to address the environmental impacts of business must have a familiarity with the tools being utilized in their discipline, as well as exposure to the tools used in related business disciplines. This course is designed to introduce and give students practice in these skills as they relate to creating and operating environmentally and socially conscious businesses. It is not designed to be comprehensive, but rather to focus on several discrete topics. The objective of this course is to help students build skills in the selected sustainable business related topics and enable students to think strategically about sustainability as it impacts the entire business process. The course will consist of four sessions of 4-6 hours (for a minimum total of 21 hours), each on a separate topic related to sustainability in business. Each topic will be led by a different instructor with appropriate academic credentials and extensive applied knowledge on the topic. The course will meet on the following Saturdays: October 10th, October 24th, November 21st, and December 5th from 2:00-7:00 pm.
