Sustainability

Students must complete 12.00 credits total, consisting of:

• 6.00 credits of Required Courses
• 3.00-6.00 credits of Elective Courses
• Up to 6.00 credits of additional courses (with the permission of the Program Director, students may take courses in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Osgoode Hall Law School not listed in this publication)
• In addition, it is possible to take an independent study towards the specialization with the consent of the Program Director.

Required Courses:

Choose two (2) from the list:

• SUST 6200 3.00 MANAGING ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

  This course explores the social and ethical challenges facing contemporary organizations and develops the knowledge and skills necessary to manage these challenges effectively. The emphasis is on enhancing personal moral insight, developing individual and organizational strategies for dealing with social and ethical problems, critically evaluating relevant tools, and managing for global corporate responsibility.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses. This course cannot be taken for credit by any students who have previously taken ETHC 5510 1.50

• SUST 6300 3.00 MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

  This course situates corporate activity within the wider context of Sustainability. In particular, it provides an overview of important management trends, tools and frameworks for integrating environmentally and socially progressive practices into organizational practice. The course also helps understand the interactions between stakeholders and the inherent issues related to their conflicting demands.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses or with permission of the instructor.

• SUST 6500 3.00 BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY

  All organizations impact the natural and social environment. However, it is only recently that sustainability has become a strategic issue for business and its managers. For increasing numbers of companies, sustainability is now an integrated part of organizational strategy formulation and implementation. Through a series of 'live cases', this course is designed to introduce students to the critical strategic and managerial issues in developing, implementing and adapting strategy to create environmental, social and economic value.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses or with permission of the instructor.

Graduate Diploma in Business and the Environment

Students must complete 12.00 credits total, consisting of:

• 6.00 credits of Required Courses
• 6.00 credits of Elective Courses

Additional Requirements

• Students must complete a 12-week internship in an approved organization
• Must be taken concurrently with an MBA* or MES* degree
• The diploma must be completed within one term of completing graduate program degree requirements
• MGMT 6100 3.00 Strategy Field Study at a site approved by the Specialization Director

* Students must satisfy both Graduate Diploma and MBA or MES requirements

Required Courses (Graduate Diploma):

• SUST 6300 3.00 MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

  This course situates corporate activity within the wider context of Sustainability. In particular, it provides an overview of important management trends, tools and frameworks for integrating environmentally and socially progressive practices into organizational practice. The course also helps understand the interactions between stakeholders and the inherent issues related to their conflicting demands.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses or with permission of the instructor.

• SUST 6500 3.00 BUSINESS STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY

  All organizations impact the natural and social environment. However, it is only recently that sustainability has become a strategic issue for business and its managers. For increasing numbers of companies, sustainability is now an integrated part of organizational strategy formulation and implementation. Through a series of 'live cases', this course is designed to introduce students to the critical strategic and managerial issues in developing, implementing and adapting strategy to create environmental, social and economic value.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses or with permission of the instructor.

Elective Courses:

Schulich School of Business (Recommended Electives):

• SUST 5200 3.00 BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY

  This course explores how organizations respond to increasing expectations to deliver sustainable performance at the economic, social and environmental level. Students grasp different ways in which companies can respond to growing pressures to adopt sustainability and study strategies of how companies can lead the way forward by developing practical solutions to some of society's most challenging problems.

  Prerequisites/Corequisites/Course Exclusions: Open to MBA students only. No prerequisites required.

• SUST 6200 3.00 MANAGING ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

  This course explores the social and ethical challenges facing contemporary organizations and develops the knowledge and skills necessary to manage these challenges effectively. The emphasis is on enhancing personal moral insight, developing individual and organizational strategies for dealing with social and ethical problems, critically evaluating relevant tools, and managing for global corporate responsibility.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses. This course cannot be taken for credit by any students who have previously taken ETHC 5510 1.50

• SUST 6400 3.00 SUSTAINABILITY ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY

  This course situates corporate activity within the wider context of Sustainability. In particular, emphasis is placed upon the information that orporations produce in order to inform society about its social and environmental impacts, assessing whether such reporting is relevant
  and/or credible. The course also helps understand the interactions between stakeholders and the inherent issues related to their conflicting demands.
  Note: Open to MES students.

• SUST 6950 1.50 ETHICS AND FINANCE

  This course will examine the role of ethics in the finance industry. It will look at the need for ethics in finance, codes of ethics, and ethical decision making. Tools for identifying ethical issues and making ethical decisions will be introduced and evaluated alongside an examination of ethical issues in financial services, financial markets, and financial management in non- financial organizations.

• ECON 6170 3.00 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS FOR BUSINESS
  This course focuses on the relationship between the economy and the environment. The economy consists of many agents including citizens, producers (or businesses), governments and non-governmental agencies (NGOs). The setting in which these agents interact and from which they derive their resources is the natural environment. Environmental economics is the study of the allocation of this scarce resource. What have businesses done to safeguard this scarce resource? What pressures do businesses respond to insofar as environmental issues are concerned? What role should governments have in seeking a given level of environmental quality? What criteria should be used to evaluate environmental policies? The course examines the theory, application and experiences (both positive and negative) of practices such as the use of property rights, cost benefit analysis, the role of risk analysis and risk management in environmental protection, command and control strategies, incentive based strategies and the role of transna
• ENTR 6655 3.00 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

  This course is for students interested in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. Using a combination of assigned readings, videos, guest speakers, and extensive interaction with real-world social entrepreneurs, students will gain a broad understanding of business models within the field, as well as the challenges and decisions social entrepreneurs face during start-up and on an ongoing basis.

  Prerequisites: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses.

• FINE 6880 3.00 SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND IMPACT INVESTING

  Sustainable finance exhibits one of the strongest trends in capital markets around the world. At the end of 2020, professionally managed sustainable investment strategies encompassed approximately 36% (US$35.3 trillion) of all total global assets under management. The course provides an overview of the global sustainable finance market and its different variations and explores how financial players (institutional investors, asset managers, and corporations) can manage capital and generate value through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) lenses. It provides insights into the sustainability challenges and how finance can address these challenges with sustainable investing. Sustainable finance integrates ESG criteria into financial decisions to allocate funding to its most productive use, whereas traditional finance focuses solely on financial return and risk. Students will gain a foundation in understanding the principles underlying sustainable and responsible decision-making in finance, the guidelines on how to apply them in business and investment practice, and how regulations and market forces provide incentives that encourage desired corporate and investor behaviors.

  FINE 5200 3.0, or MFIN 5100 3.0, or permission of the instructor.

• MGMT 6200 3.00 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND THE LAW
  This course familiarizes students with basic legal concepts and principles relevant to business administration. Topics include: the Canadian judicial system; contract law; tort law (including negligence, product liability and defamation); forms of carrying on business (including sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations); bailment, agency and employment law; real property and mortgage law; and intellectual property law (including trademarks, copyright and patents). Prerequisite: All 5100-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses. Note: Law students or students with law degrees are not permitted to take this course.
• GMMM 6100 3.00 STRATEGIES FOR WEALTH CREATION IN THE METALS & MINERALS INDUSTRY

  Using the GMM Strategy Framework, students analyze, assess and develop strategies that metals and minerals companies employ to create wealth over the long term for stakeholders.

  Prerequisites: All 5000-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses, GMMM 5100

  Corequisites: GMMM6200, GMMM6300, GMMM6400

• GMMM 6300 3.00 STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION FOR RESPONSIBLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT & USE

  Students analyze and assess the role that stakeholders have in determining the strategies of metals and minerals companies and the critical role of collaboration in seeking outcomes that benefit all stakeholders. Students learn responsible business practices, specifically focusing on the strategies, skills and methods used to bring together stakeholder groups with divergent views and values.

  Prerequisite: All 5000-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses, GMMM 5100

  Corequisites: GMMM6100, GMMM6200, GMMM6400

• MKTG 6480 3.00 NONPROFIT MARKETING & RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
  This course examines the relationship between nonprofit organizations and their external constituencies. It includes a critical examination of the application of marketing theory and practice in a non-traditonal setting (segmentation, target marketing, positioning, the marketing concept and the marketing mix), as well as specialized topics such as social enterprise, volunteer marketing, cause marketing and fundraising. The course would be of interest to those specializing in non-profit management (including the arts), as well as marketing majors who wish to expand their knowledge of marketing principles and techniques. Pre-Requisite: MKTG 5200.030
• ORGS 6350 3.00 MANAGING CHANGE
  As the environment of many business and nonprofit organizations becomes increasingly complex and unstable, it is imperative that top managers be able to create a climate of flexibility and adaptability in their operations. Organizations must be able to undertake major change without destructive side effects to be truly successful. This course surveys the major methods available to the modern manager for effectively managing the process of change and creating a general climate in which needed changes are sought and welcomed throughout the organization. The course emphasizes case studies and the discussion of alternative change management models. Prerequisite: SB/ORGS 5100 3.00 or INTL 5220 for IMBA students
• ORGS 6400 3.00 POWER AND POLITICS IN ORGANIZATIONS
  This course examines, both conceptually and in a highly experiential ways, the basic dynamics underlying power, conflict and politics in organizations and the implications of the dance between power and powerlessness. Students explore the conditions under which conflict and power dynamics occur and start to identify their personal, managerial and organizational sources of influence and corresponding responsibilities. Prerequisite change: SB/ORGS 5100 3.0 or INTL 5220 3.0 for IMBA students
• ORGS 6420 3.00 CRISIS MANAGEMENT
  Crises in organizations are inevitable, and whether an organization survives them is due in large part to the actions of its managers and leaders. This course provides students with an overview of key factors in organizational crisis management, including (1) Assessing Crisis Vulnerabilities; (2) Planning for Crises; and (3) Managing during Crises. Prerequisites: All 5000-series Required Foundations of Management Core Courses.
• ORGS 6560 3.00 NEGOTIATIONS
  This course will provide students with insight into their own negotiation style and how to become a more effective negotiator. The course takes an experiential approach to exploring the concepts, theories, and psychology of negotiations. Students will gain knowledge of the different approaches to negotiations and the strategies and tactics unique to each. The course will provide students with opportunity to learn, practice, and refine negotiation skills as well as equip them with the skills necessary to negotiate constructive resolution to conflict in the workplace. Prerequisite: SB/ORGS 5100 3.0 or INTL 5220 3.0 for IMBA students
• PROP 6550 3.00 SUSTAINABLE CITIES - URBANIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE & STRATEGIC CHOICES

  The course provides an understanding of issues related to the pace of urbanization across the globe and the impact on the demand for new infrastructure. The challenges for both developing and developed countries is examined from the perspective of potential new strategies, new technologies, new business models and new financing techniques that can begin to make a difference in addressing a full range of infrastructure needs. In terms of sustainability, this will include an understanding of the demand side and supply side, cultural factors, and the policy framework.

Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

ENVS 6115 3.00 Ecological Economics
ENVS 6148 3.00 Environmental Negotiation and Mediation
ENVS 6164 3.00 Environmental Law
ENVS 6179 3.00 Climate Change
ENVS 6186 3.00 Impact Assessment

Osgoode Hall Law School

LW 2880 3.00 Environmental Law
LW 3490 3.00 Resource Management
LW 3590 3.00 Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
LW 3830 3.00 Climate Change Law
LW 4880 3.00 International Environmental Law: Protection of the Global Environment
LW 5170 3.00 Corporate Governance

^{NOTE: Not all courses required to fulfill a specialization are offered each term. Course offerings are based on factors such as student demand and instructor availability. The office of Student Services & International Relations is available to provide advising on course sequencing and the fulfillment of program and specialization requirements within a student’s period of study. For current course offerings and details, please view the Schulich Course Offerings Database.}