MAN 4788 SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 3 credits

Prerequisite: Admission to Management and Organizational Leadership BAS or Sustainability Management BAS. This course integrates social and environmental values in a management context in order to further the student’s understanding of human, natural, and financial sustainability issues. The student will evaluate sustainability and environmental philosophies on a broad scale. The student will understand international policies and regulations, human welfare, politics, environmental racism, hazardous waste and pollution, global warming, and other key sustainability/green issues. The student will work to develop skills in conducting cost-benefit, payback, and life cycle analysis to justify projects and evaluate their impact on sustainability/green issues. By increasing the student’s understanding, he or she will be better prepared to direct a company, community, or country in ways that restore and enhance stakeholder value while insuring the continued sustainability of the environment as a whole for current and future generations. 47 contact hours.