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 (M.B.S.) 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: urban eco-sustainability track must take four of the following courses:
Courses are available in
either Newark (NW) or New Brunswick (NB).
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 respective departments/graduate programs. Electives in the Newark-based urban eco-sustainability track are listed at http://psm.rutgers.edu/content/sustainability.
Concentration Coordinators:
Professor Edward Bonder (Newark)
ebonder@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Professor Uta Krogmann (New Brunswick)
krogmann@aesop.rutgers.edu
Professor Clinton Andrews (New Brunswick)
cjal@rci.rutgers.edu
