Summer 2025 - BUS 489 D100
Management Practices for Sustainability (3)
Class Number: 2547
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
May 12 – Aug 8, 2025: Tue, 2:30–5:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Jess Schulschenk
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Prerequisites:
(BUS 374 or BUS 381) and BUS 360W, or corporate environmental and social sustainability certificate students with an upper division Writing (W) course, all with a minimum grade of C-; 60 units.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Businesses are realigning and reinventing their organizations to support environmental and social sustainability. This course emphasizes the people and cultural side of management practices for sustainability and will equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to act as change makers and help embed sustainability into an organization’s culture, strategy, and operations.
Materials
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
At SFU, you are expected to act honestly and responsibly in all your academic work. Cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic dishonesty harms your own learning, undermines the efforts of your classmates who pursue their studies honestly, and goes against the core values of the university.
To learn more about the academic disciplinary process and relevant academic supports, visit:
- SFU’s Academic Integrity Policy: S10-01 Policy
- SFU’s Academic Integrity website, which includes helpful videos and tips in plain language: Academic Integrity at SFU
RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the term are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.