Environment and Sustainability Management (Minor)

Overview

The Environment and Sustainability Management minor is offered through Parsons School of Design.

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 Entrepreneurship   NMGM 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:

• The ability to critically examine self, organizations, and society from a socio-ecological embeddedness perspective
• 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
• 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 poonamallee@newschool.edu.