| Minor
in Sustainability and Environmental Management
Purpose:
Increasingly, consideration of the impact of decisions on
the external physical environment is an important factor for
businesses and other organizations. The decisions involved
may concern such issues as the placement and structure of
facilities, the use of chemicals in the workplace and agriculture,
the production of environmentally safe products, the usage
of energy materials and supplies, and the disposal of waste
products.
Recognizing the growing importance of the environment as a
factor in organizational decision-making, the University offers
a minor in Sustainability and Environmental Management, which
will allow students both to understand the nature of environmental
constraints which face organizations and individuals in the
modern world, and to understand how these constraints can
be effectively considered as part of the decision-making process
in for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
The minor includes courses from the Wharton School, the School
of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and the School
of Arts and Sciences (SAS), as detailed below. Students in
any of the four undergraduate schools may elect to take the
minor.
Course work:
Students who wish to pursue a University minor in Sustainability
and Environmental Management will be required to take a total
of six courses. This program of six courses is designed to
give students broad exposure to an interdisciplinary approach
to the study of the environment, in the hope that students
will use it as a take-off point for understanding the role
of the environment in the disciplinary studies they pursue
for their concentrations
Note: 4 of the 6 courses for the minor must be taken outside
of the student's concentration or major. All students must
take at least two Wharton courses as part of fulfilling the
requirements for the minor. Wharton students taking a concentration
in Environmental Policy and Management may not also take this
University minor.
Core Courses:
Acronyms on the following list of courses refer to the following
departments: Health Care Management (HCMG), Insurance (INSR),
Legal Studies (LGST), Management (MGMT), Marketing (MKTG),
Operations and Information Management (OPIM), Business and
Public Policy (BPUB), Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE),
and Environmental Studies (ENVS).
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Sustainability and Environmental Management Minor (This is
a 6 cu University Interschool Minor)
As a University Interschool Minor, each student should be
advised by the designated advisor in
his/her home school.
MINOR
REQUIREMENTS (Minimum
15 credits for Major / 35 credits total )
CORE
COURSES- There are 4 required courses and
2 elective courses for this minor.
Course requirements include courses from Wharton, Engineering
and SAS.
The
required coursework for the minor includes 4 course units
from the following:
1. ENVS 200 (SAS): Introduction
to Environmental Analysis
(students are recommended to take this course during their
sophomore or junior years.)
2. EAS 401: Energy
and its impacts: technology, ecology, economics and sustainability
OR EAS 402: Renewable energy and its impact (SEAS)
3. Two out of the three following courses:
a)
LGST 215/815 (Wharton):
Environmental Management Law and Policy
b) OPIM/BPUB 261/SYS 567 (Wharton):
Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
c) BPUB 204 (Wharton): Cost-Benefit Analysis
(Engineering students may
substitute ESE 400 for BPUB 204)
The
other two courses should be chosen from the following electives:
LGST
215: Environmental Law and Business
OPIM/BPUB 261/SYS 567: Risk Analysis and Environmental Management
BPUB 204: Cost-Benefit Analysis
(any of the three above may be used as an elective if not
used as a required course)
BIOL 140: Humans and the Environment
BIOL 240: Ecology and Population Biology
BIOL 456: Issues in Conservation
CBE 375: Responding to Environmental Challenges
CBE 375: Engineering and the environment XLISTED with
ESE 360/566: Introduction to Environmental Systems
ENVS 204: Global Climate Change
ENVS 301: Case Studies in the Environment
ENVS 312: Ocean-Atmosphere Dynamics and Implications for Future
Climate Change
ENVS 400: Cancer Toxicology
ENVS 400: Maintenance of Wetlands Environments (alternate
term)
ENVS 401: Water Resources in the Middle East
ENVS 402: Environmental Chemistry
ENVS 403: Case Studies in Ecology
ENVS 404: The Urban Environment
Advising
Students
interested in the OEVM minor should contact the advisor for
their school listed below:
SAS: Dr.
Jane Dmochowski
SEAS: Dr.
John Keenan
Wharton: Joanne
Spigonardo
Governance
Governance of the minor, including decisions about changes
in coursework and other structural matters, will be the province
of a faculty committee selected from among those faculty who
created the minor or others designated by the relevant departments.
It will be the responsibility of this multi-School committee,
in collaboration with the offices of the Vice Deans and Associate
Deans of the Schools involved, to: a) maintain the list of
approved courses for the minor; b) ensure that students in
all three undergraduate Schools know that the minor is a curricular
option for them; and c) to provide advising as necessary to
prospective students and to those enrolled in the minor.
Undergraduate
Concentration
MBA
Major
MBA/MES
Joint Concentration
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