Call Number | 12017 |
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Day & Time Location |
M 6:10pm-8:00pm 141 Uris Hall |
Points | 1-3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | None |
Instructors | Sophia Huda Noa Gafni |
Type | LECTURE |
Method of Instruction | In-Person |
Course Description | This course deals with a fundamental question of sustainability management: how to change organizations and more complex systems, such as communities, industries, and markets, by integrating sustainability concerns in the way that they operate. The course poses this question to a dozen leading sustainability practitioners, who answer it by discussing management strategies that they use in their own work. Through these guest lectures, extensive class discussion, readings, and writing assignments, students identify and simulate applying practical ways for transforming how organizations and complex systems work. The practitioners, who work in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and in a wide variety of organizations, make presentations in the first hour of the course. Students then have time to ask questions and speak informally with the guest practitioners, and will participate in an instructor-led class discussion, geared toward identifying management strategies, better understanding their application, and considering their effectiveness. By the end of the course, the students gain an understanding of management tools and strategies that they, themselves, would use to integrate sustainability in organizations. The course complements the M.S. in Sustainability Management program’s required course, Sustainability Management (SUMA K4100). In that course, students study management and organization theory. In the Practicum, students learn directly from leading practitioners, who confront sustainability management issues daily. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Sustainability Management |
Enrollment | 19 students (60 max) as of 5:08PM Saturday, September 7, 2024 |
Subject | Sustainability Management |
Number | PS4310 |
Section | 001 |
Division | School of Professional Studies |
Note | Graduate Students Only |
Section key | 20243SUMA4310K001 |