**SUMMER 2011 REGISTRATION STARTS ON APRIL 7th – Make sure you know all about the available courses related to sustainability below!**
Welcome to the Curriculum page of the Sustainable Business Club! The SBC is committed to supporting existing courses related to sustainability and helping to create new ones for Baruch students to take in this exciting field.
You can also find information on the new Sustainable Business Major for MBA students on the Baruch Sustainability Taskforce website or on the Zicklin School website.
Summer 2011 Graduate Courses in the new Sustainability Major
Session 1:
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| MGT 9400 | Human Resources Mgt | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| S1EA | 0297 | M, W, Th 8:15pm-10:20pm | Booke, A. |
| Course Description | |||
| Human Resource ManagementAnalysis of the challenges and conflicts inherent in building a workforce and managing personnel. The course examines all levels in the hierarchy and the ramifications of policy formulation, recruitment and selection, training and development, wage and salary administration, morale, absenteeism, turnover, and union-management relations.Prerequisite: MGT 9300 or PSY 9788. | |||
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| MGT 9960 | Entrepreneurial Strategies and Cases | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| S1DA | 0300 | M, W, Th 5:30pm-7:35pm | Foskey, R. |
| Course Description | |||
Entrepreneurial Strategy and CasesPresentation of conceptual frameworks to help the student in
Prerequisite: Not open to students who have completed MGT 9860. |
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Session 2:
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| MKT 9716 | Consumer Behavior | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| S2D3A | 0316 | M, W, Th 5:30pm-8pm | Staff, A. |
| Course Description | |||
| Consumer BehaviorExamination of the psychological, economic, socio-cultural, and decision-making influences on consumer behavior, including a discussion of consumer behavior applications to social marketing.Prerequisite or Corequisite: MKT 9703. | |||
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| PAF 9151 | Admin of Not-for-Profit and Voluntary Orgs | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| NUFA | 0373 | TBA | Bagley, G. |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| NUFB | 0374 | TBA | Bagley, G. |
| Course Description | |||
| Administration of Not-for-Profit and Voluntary Agencies 2 hours plus conference; 3 creditsStudy of management techniques and strategies applicable in nonprofit agencies. Topics include agency interaction with governmental and political institutions, planning and control systems, the role of the governing board, and the role of the executive director. Special attention is paid to the needs of community service/social welfare and cultural/arts organizations.Prerequisite: Grad 8 status in MPA program or departmental permission. |
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If you are interested in working on Sustainable Business curriculum, or have comments/suggestions for this site, please email emily.rotella@baruchmail.cuny.edu.
PREVIOUS Graduate Courses related to Sustainability (Spring 2011 line-up)
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| Bus 9700 | Sustainable Business | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| MW73A | 2239 | M W 7:35-8:50pm | Bocian, M. |
| Course Description | |||
| BUS 9700 Sustainable Business: Perspectives, Theories, and PracticesThis course has been designed to provide students with an introduction to the theory and practice of sustainable business. It is the principal required course in the Sustainable Business major at the MBA level. The course seeks to enable students to develop a deep understanding of the concept of sustainability; its importance, its application to business; and its economic, social and environment implications. The role of government and NGOs in sustainable development will be explored vis-à-vis their relationship to business. Ethics and its role in sustainability will be featured throughout the course.Prerequisite: ECO 9708. | |||
| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| CIS 9771 | Green IT | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| TR6A | 0415 | T Th 6:00-7:15pm | Mohan, K. |
| Course Description | |||
| CIS 9771 Green ITThis course examines the relationship between Information Technology and sustainability. Students will be introduced to different theories and practices pertaining to business, Information Technology, and sustainability. The course examines both ‘greening of IT’ and ‘greening by IT’. Greening of IT refers to the impact of information systems on the environment including challenges such as carbon footprint of information systems and e-waste. Greening by IT refers to IT-enabled solutions that focus on reducing green-house gas emissions.Prerequisite: CIS 9000
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| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| LAW 9120 | Sustainability: Law & Policy | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| CANCELLED | CANCELLED | CANCELLED | Cotten, M. |
| Course Description | |||
| LAW 9120 Sustainability: Law & PolicyThis course examines the concept of “sustainability” and the law and policy governing the operation of businesses with respect to their impact on sustainability. Topics covered include sustainable business practices, relevant international law and government policies, challenges and successes in the implementation of laws and strategies related to sustainability, and legal compliance, disclosure, and risk assessment with respect to business operations and the planet. Analyzing legal risk (current and future) to inform management decisions will be emphasized.Prerequisite: None.
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| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| MGT 9970 | Entrepreneurship & Community Development | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| TR6A | 2023 | T Th 6:00pm-7:15pm | Augustine, D. |
| Course Description | |||
| MGT 9970 Entrepreneurship & Community DevelopmentThis course is designed to introduce students to the current and prospective roles of entrepreneurship in a community’s economic development. It provides a guiding framework and common language for thinking about these roles and about appropriate and strategic interventions for fostering them. The course begins with an examination of current practices in community economic development regarding entrepreneurship, their attributes and their deficiencies. It then offers an alternative, systemic approach, viewing the community’s economy as a pipeline of entrepreneurs and enterprises at various levels of skill development and companies at differing stages of the business life cycle. It explores how entrepreneurs and their businesses advance within this pipeline and the importance of maintaining a flow of entrepreneurial activity to community wealth building.Prerequisite: MGT 9960 (formerly MGT 9860) or departmental permission.
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| Course | Title | Credits | Hours |
| MKT 9715 | Current Issues in Marketing: Green Marketing | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Section | Registration code | Day and Time | Instructor |
| TR6 | 1128 | T Th 6:00-7:15pm | Rosen, B. |
| Course Description | |||
| MKT 9715 Green MarketingThis course explores the marketing-related issues, problems and opportunities created by the changing physical environment and the challenges to the sustainability of life as we know it on Earth. A combination of lectures, talks by specialist guests, field trips and readings is used to examine various aspects of the topic. The coverage will be broad, ranging from ethical concerns to the relationship of green markets to international trade patterns. Students will execute both individual and group projects in the course of learning how to apply this knowledge to practical marketing tasks such as market analysis, new product development and product management.Prerequisite or Corequisite: MKT 9703. | |||
