Sustainability Management

This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of financial and managerial accounting. Emphasis is placed on learning and applying the basic accounting framework through the full accounting cycle with common business transactions, preparing financial statements, understanding fixed and...

What are the roots of the current climate crisis? Can religious, economic, cultural, political, and/or biological worldviews help us understand the challenges? The course will introduce concepts in systems thinking, which emphasize an interdisciplinary approach to addressing climate change. The...

The best way to learn about entrepreneurship is to do entrepreneurship. This course combines stories of success and failure in entrepreneurship, exploration of each student’s aptitude for entrepreneurship, cultivation of new ideas, and practice with starting new ventures. Design thinking,...

Introduces students to the key functional areas of business including management, finance, accounting, marketing, production, information technology, and human capital. Students will understand how these functions exist in a changing society and impact organizational decision-making. This course will also introduce...

Designed to provide students with an initial framework and context for understanding how businesses operate and compete in their respective industries. This course is an overview of business, how it is organized, and how the various components of an organization...

This course provides students with the basic and intermediate spreadsheet skills expected by employers. Students will learn basic functions, chart creation, data analysis and representation, and tools commonly used organizations.

This course explores consumer behavior, from determining consumer needs and wants, the process by which they are satisfied, and the environment in which the behavior occurs. Concepts and theories developed in psychology, economics, and sociology will be applied to the...

In this course students will develop the skills necessaryto transform data to information that is easily communicated and drives decision-making in organizations. This course will combine a student’s knowledge of business with data and statistics, learning to use a variety...

The course will provide a framework within which to appraise career options, set goals and implement a plan to reach goals. Topics include self-appraisal, resumes, developing a job-search strategy, interviewing for jobs, choosing the first job and graduate-school opportunities. This...

Human capital management is a central function of any organization. Managers and employees play an integral role in carrying out human resource policies and practices in their organization. In this course students will think systematically and strategically about aspects of...

Decision-making and analysis of production and service delivery challenges in areas of plant location, facilities design, process strategy, production planning and control, supply chain, inventory management, performance measurement, and quality control. Special attention is also given to the study of...

Students will examine how businesses develop a competitive advantage through the integration of sustainability and strategy, insulating themselves from risks in an ever changing global environment. Prerequisite: 9 credit hours of ACC, BUS, ECON and/or SUST courses.

This course focuses on an environmental, social, and governance reporting framework for organizations. Students will learn to identify, measure, evaluate, and communicate sustainability issues that are likely to affect the financial condition and operating performance of an organization. Prerequisite: Acc...

A study and evaluation of management strategies to achieve organizational goals and objectives and create value for all stakeholders. This course utilizes management principles, financial analysis and control, personnel decisions and marketing strategies with an emphasis on case studies and...

In this course we consider how economic activity affects the environment and how environmental destruction can, in turn, harm the economy. We apply the concepts of externalities, public goods and open-access resources to topics such as air pollution, climate change...

This course explores the transformation necessary to create a sustainable economy using a triple-bottom-line perspective: planet, people, and profit. Students will learn about the organizational and structural changes required to promote a sustainable economy, focusing on the objectives of sustainable...

How can and should humans relate to nature? This question raises vigorous, passionate, and political discussion. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students explore (a) how information is generated, refined, and debated in scientific disciplines, (b) how science, archaeology and other disciplines...

This course is designed to provide space for discussion and synthesis among interested students, whether their majors are sustainability or another field altogether. This will allow students to integrate learning in their various courses, and gain perspective from their peers...

Students will explore the nature of complex socio-ecological systems and patterns of problems and dynamics within those systems. The “triple bottom line” (people – planet – profit) will be a primary framework through which sustainability solutions will be explored. An...