Master of Science in Sustainable Management

Master of Science in Sustainable Management

The Master of Science in Sustainable Management will prepare students to successfully respond to today's challenges by developing new skills and approaches. Students will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Employ an orienting method for assessing, challenging and re-framing the traditional practices of management through the lens of sustainability to better understand the impact organizations have on the social and ecological environment. Students will learn how to challenge their own assumptions and see their thinking as an arc of pragmatic inquiry.
• Demonstrate the capacity for systems-thinking as a perspective for interdisciplinary analysis and decision-making to develop organizational strategies. Students will learn how to take multiple stakeholder perspectives when addressing complex systems and complex problems.
• Demonstrate the capacity to analyze the way societies and organizations use and value the natural, financial, social and human resources (capital) required to deliver the needed goods and services. Students will learn how to analyze the values and assumptions at work in any business enterprise.
• Develop the technical competence to account for, connect, and measure the economic, social and environmental impacts of organizational decisions.

CURRICULUM

To complete the Master of Science in Sustainable Management students must complete a total of 12 courses. Six courses are required core courses, three are selected from the list of business foundation electives and three are selected from the list of interdisciplinary electives.

Required Core Courses (6 courses)

• MGT 515 SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
• ACC 500 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
• ENV 506 EARTH RESOURCES AND HUMAN SOCIETY
• FIN 559 SUSTAINABLE VALUE CREATIONENV 506 EARTH RESOURCES AND HUMAN SOCIETY
• MKT 798 SPECIAL TOPICS- Green Marketing
• GSB 595 DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES: PRACTICUM

Business Foundation Electives (3 courses)

• ECO 509 BUSINESS CONDITIONS ANALYSIS
• GSB 420 APPLIED QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
• MGT 500 MANAGING FOR EFFECTIVE AND ETHICAL ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
• MGT 502 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• MGT 508 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• MGT 535 CHANGE MANAGEMENT
• MGT 556 ETHICS AND LEADERSHIP: STREETS OF CHICAGO
• MGT 595 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• MKT 798 SPECIAL TOPICS- EMERGING MARKETS

Interdisciplinary Electives (3 courses)

• ECO 423 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC POLICY
• ECO 424 MICROECONOMIC THEORY
• ECO 425 PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• CMNS 529 TOPICS IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION- Environmental Rhetoric and Politics
• GEO 441 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
• MPS 511 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
• MPS 604 SPECIAL TOPICS- Environmental policy and Sustainability
• MPS 611 MANAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL NGOs
• RE 798 SPECIAL TOPICS- Sustainable Building and Real Estate
• MLS 409 ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
• GSB 650 RELIGIOUS ETHICS AND ECONOMICS (CROSS-LISTED AS PHL 650 & MLS 442)
• MLS 452 GREAT IDEAS, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
• MLS 462 TOPICS IN BUSINESS ETHICS