Overview
The Environment and Sustainability Management minor is offered through the Schools of Public Engagement.
This minor enables students to master concepts, frameworks, and tools enabling them to create and deliver value by embedding and centering environmental sustainability in key business, management, and organizational processes. Through a critical and mindful
examination of the socio-ecological embeddedness of self, others, and organizations, they learn how to identify organizational stakeholders and their agendas and interests, lead change, and build a better world by creating and fostering environmentally
sustainable and responsible businesses, environmental entrepreneurship, and social ventures.
Students apply knowledge from diverse disciplines to analyze complex global business environments and sustainability challenges. This interdisciplinarity prepares students to anticipate, innovate, and create sustainable solutions for businesses, the natural
environment, and society by examining and integrating insights from several areas of knowledge. Courses address poverty, inequality, human rights, and justice as well as topics related to the climate crisis, biodiversity, and scarcity of natural
resources.
Curriculum
This minor requires successful completion of 18 credits. Students generally select one course from each of the subject areas in the chart below.
Course availability may vary from semester to semester. Some courses may be in development and offered at a later time. Students seeking to pursue alternative coursework in other subject areas to fulfill the minor should consult with their advisors.
| Subject Area | Required Courses | Credits |
|---|
| ESM Core | At least one of the following:
NEPS 5002 Embedded Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility
UTNS 5201 Reclaiming Sacred Ecologies Through Mindfulness
Embedded
Social Responsibility and Sustainability Management
| 3-6 |
| Management and Leading Change Core | At least one of the following:
NMGT 2000 Introduction to Management, Leadership, and EntrepreneurshipNMGM 5202 Systems Approach to Management and Organizations
NMGT 4110 Strategic Management for the 21st-Century Organization
NMGT 3031 Project Management
NMGM 5104 Intersections Between Management and Social Justice
AND
At least one of the following:
NMGT 2423 Leadership in Context
NMGM 5008 Why Leadership Matters: Power or Potential
NMGM 5028 Mindful Leadership Development
NMGM 5003 Foundations of Organizational
Change
NMGM 6013 Organizational Change Interventions
NMGM 5103 Adaptive Facilitation | 6-9 |
| ESM Electives | NMGT 2000 Introduction to Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship
NMGM 5202 Systems Approach to Management and Organizations
NMGT 4110 Strategic Management for the 21st-Century Organization
NMGT 3031 Project Management
NMGT 2423 Leadership in Context
NMGM 5008 Why Leadership Matters: Power or Potential
NMGM
5003 Foundations of Organizational Change
NMGM 6013 Organizational Change Interventions
NMGM 5103 Adaptive Facilitation
NMGT 3402 Group Dynamics and Team Skills
NMGM 5104 Intersections Between Management and Social Justice
NFDS 3714 Food and the Environment
NFDS 3201 Making Sausage: Policy for Food Systems, Environment, and Design
NFDS 2230 The Global Food System
NFDS 4245 Social Justice and the Sustainable Food System
UENV 2000 Environment and Society
UENV 2100 Environmental History, Race, and Natural Resource Management
UENV 2015 Writing the Environment
UENV 3200 Spatial Thinking with GIS
UENV 3501 Economics of the Environment
UENV 3400& Urban ResilienceUENV4013 Renewable Energy Systems
LSCI 2300 Urban Environmental Health
LSCI 2320 Microbial Ecologies
LSCI 2700 Energy and Sustainability
LSCI 2500 Chemistry of the Environment
LTHR 2917 Theater and Ecojustice
LINA 2060 Practicing the Environment: An Arts Platform
LCST 3267 Art and the Politics of Earth
ULEC 2392 Waste and Justice
ULEC 2285 Music, Nature, and Culture
PUFY 1100 Sustainable Systems
PUDM 2101 Economics and Ethics of Sustainable Design
PUDM 2315 Marketing, Public Relations, and Branding
PAFC 1000 Fashion Industry Survey
PUAD 3000 Environmental Design: Architecture and Energy
PSAM 4830 Landscape and Space
PSCE 5300 Environmental Design
PSCE 5301 Environmental Technologies I
COPA 1111 Creative Collaborations
COPA 5700 Performance Production Management
CENT 5660 Performing Arts Strategies
CENT 5500 Arts Management and Governance
NEPS 6003 Gendered Ecologies
NMGM 5030 Reimagining Social Movements
NEPS 5006 Principles of Environmental Science
NEPS 5022 Environmental Justice: Race, Class, and the Environment
NEPS 5004 Global Environmental Politics and Policy
NEPS 5008 Sustainability Perspectives and Practice
MEPS 5023 Environmental Law and Policy
NEPS 5001 Climate Change: Systemic Crisis and Systemic Change
GECO 6050 Economics of Climate Change | 3-6 credits |
Learning Outcomes
A student who has completed this undergraduate minor will be able to demonstrate:
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The ability to critically examine self, organizations, and society through a socio-ecological embeddedness perspective
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Knowledge of foundational concepts related to environmental and social sustainability, such as carrying capacity, cradle-to-grave recycling, sociopolitical adaptation, evolutionary processes, intergenerational debt, climate change, ecosystem services,
homeostasis, and social equity and justice and how these concepts can be applied in professional practice and career trajectories
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Knowledge of techniques and skills essential to working with and leading teams across organizational silos and disciplines to manage a multistakeholder environmental and sustainability agenda and approach environmental challenges as innovation
Eligibility
The Environment and Sustainability Management minor is available to undergraduate degree students across The New School.
Students can retroactively apply successfully completed courses toward a minor upon declaring or applying. After a student successfully completes a minor's requirements, the minor will appear on the student's academic transcript at graduation.
For questions about this minor, please contact Latha Poonamallee, chair, at [email protected].