Sustainability
is offered as a concentration within the professional science master's program
described under Business and Science 137. The concentration in sustainability
is designed to help students identify, analyze, and better understand
connections among social, environmental, technological, and economic
systems. Designed 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.
Program Requirements
For
the master of business and science (M.B.S.) degree, students take eight
courses (24 credits) in the sciences and 19 credits in business. The
business requirements include courses in finance and accounting,
marketing, communication and leadership, capstone, ethics, and
electives. The business curriculum is listed here. The science courses
for the sustainability concentration are given below.
Click here to see the business course requirements.
Students are required to take eight courses in the science of sustainability. This
includes four core courses and four courses in ANY of the following areas: environmental science and engineering, energy and sustainable technologies, and urban eco-sustainability. In addition,
there are suggested business elective courses for the six management
courses, which are part of the master of business and science degree. It
is recommended that students have some background in environmental
science.
The concentration in sustainability
is offered at both Rutgers University–Newark and Rutgers University–New Brunswick with slightly
different flavors. Rutgers-Newark focuses on urban
eco-sustainability; Rutgers-New Brunswick focuses on energy
technologies, environmental science, and policy. Urban eco-sustainability covers issues of sustainable resources, carbon
sources/sinks, brownfield recovery, and utilization. Environmental systems and policy covers issues in water resource management,
ecology, bioremediation, and environmental planning. Energy technologies
concentrates on engineering and new energy technologies (a background
in engineering may be required for some of these courses).
Core Courses (Four Required Courses)
Courses labeled courses labeled NW are in Newark; courses labeled NB are in New Brunswick,
(i) ENERGY and POLICY: Take two of the following classes:
16:137:556 (NB) Integrated Energy Challenge (fall, 3)
OR 34:970:620 (NB) Energy Sustainability and Policy (spring, 3)
OR 16:137:603 (NB) Introduction to Sustainability (spring-online, 3)
(ii) ENVIRONMENT: Take one course from the following list:
16:375:523 (NB) Environmental Fate And Transport (spring, 3)
OR 11:704:451 Global Change Ecology (fall, 3)
OR 26:120:507 (NW) Computational Ecology (3)
OR 26:375:590 (NW) Introduction to Environmental Biophysics (3)
OR 26:375:534 (NW) Biological Invasions (fall, 3)
(iii) RESOURCES: Take one course from the following list:
34:970:571 (NB) Industrial Ecology (3)
OR 22:799:672 (NB/NW) Supply Chain Environmental Management/Green Purchasing (spring, 3)
OR 16:375:534 (NB) Environmental Sustainability (fall, 3)
OR 26:120:522 (NW) Resource Sustainability (fall, 3)
Electives are
grouped into three different concentrations, environmental science and engineering, energy and sustainable technologies, and urban eco-sustainability. There is also a list of policy courses which can be
used as electives (in the business curriculum).
Full course descriptions can
be found under respective departments/graduate programs and at http://mbs.rutgers.edu/sustainability-course-descriptions. Electives in the Newark-based urban eco-sustainability track are also included on that webpage.
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
