CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS IN BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY
Provides central knowledge and skills to tackle challenges at the intersection of business and sustainability. Analysis of the causes of sustainability challenges as relating to business and study of frameworks and measurement systems for incorporating sustainability into corporate decision-making and business analysis.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing or declared in undergraduate Business Exchange program. Not open to graduate/professional students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of business activity and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenges resulting from business activity. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of incorporating sustainability into corporate decision-making. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenges of business activity and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenges resulting from business activity. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of incorporating sustainability into corporate decision-making. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027