Sustainability is offered as a concentration within the professional science master's program described under Business and Science 137. The objective of the master of business and science degree with a concentration in sustainability is to help students identify, analyze, and better understand connections among social, environmental, technological, and economic systems. Based upon a systems analysis approach, this program provides a broad understanding of the forces driving these systems. It also provides specific tools and skills to measure, predict, and influence key processes that influence sustainability. A systems-based approach to problem solving seeks to envision and forecast how individual or local actions can affect the function of a larger ecosystem, structure, organization, or process. By understanding and acknowledging the interactions of social, environmental, and economic systems, graduates of this program will be better equipped to conceive, propose, and promote strategies that meet short-term personal and organizational needs while promoting sustainable, long-term outcomes.
All students in the sustainability concentration must take the following courses:
Courses are available in either New Brunswick (NB) or Newark (NW).
14:332:402 (NB) Sustainable Energy: Choosing among Options (3)
16:375:523 (NB) Environmental Fate And Transport (3)
or 16:215:603 (NB) Ecosystem Ecology and Global Change (4)
or 26:375:590 (NW) Introduction to Environmental Biophysics (3)
or 26:375:534 (NW) Biological Invasions (3)
16:375:534 (NB) Environmental Sustainability (3)
or 26:120:522 (NW) Resource Sustainability (3)
34:970:571 (NB) Industrial Ecology (3)
or 26:120:507 (NW) Computational Ecology (3)
16:137:555
Concepts in Corporate Sustainability (3)
Economic principles and incentives that support market-based
approaches to proactive sustainability. The historical context of corporate environmental engagement; strategies
and frameworks within which companies perform carbon management. Aspects of sustainability; synergies.
Full course descriptions can be found under the respective departments/graduate programs. Electives are listed at: http://psm.rutgers.edu.
Concentration Coordinators:
Professor Uta Krogmann (New Brunswick)
krogmann@aesop.rutgers.edu
Professor Clinton Andrews (New Brunswick)
cja1@rci.rutgers.edu
Professor Edward Bonder (Newark)
ebonder@andromeda.rutgers.edu
