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Corporate Sustainability Major

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Offered By ANU College of Business and Economics
Academic Contact ANU College of Business and Economics
Areas of Interest Commerce, Interdisciplinary Studies - Sustainability, and Science

These are the 2012 rules for the major. The 2011 rules for the major are available here.

 

The major in Corporate Sustainability examines the increasing constraints placed on business by both the natural environment and society, and how corporations may create long-term value through innovative responses to these constraints. It is truly multidisciplinary, drawing together insights from management, marketing, accounting, economics, environmental science, law, politics, and philosophy.

 

Prerequisites

Some courses in this major have the completion of 24 units of study as a prerequisite.

 

Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

18 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

BUSN3017 Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Reporting

MGMT2001 Corporate Sustainability

MGMT3015 Corporate Strategy

6 units from completion of a core course from the following list:

MGMT3101 Business and the Natural Environment

MGMT3102 Business and its Social Stakeholders

6 units from completion of a core course from the following list:

ECON2128 Resource and Environmental Economics (P) OR ECON2129 Resource and Environmental Economics (H)

MKTG2002 Sustainable Marketing

18 units from completion of core courses from the following list (if not already completed towards the requirements of the major):

ECON2128 Resource and Environmental Economics (P) OR ECON2129 Resource and Environmental Economics (H)

ENVS2011 Human Ecology OR ENVS2013 Society and Environmental Change OR ENVS3020 Climate Change Science and Policy OR ENVS3028 Environmental Policy

ENVS3021 Human Futures OR ENVS3001 Climate Change Science & Policy Field School

LAWS3103 Law and the Environment

MGMT2035 Managing Organisational Change

MGMT3016 Business Ethics

MGMT3101 Business and the Natural Environment

MGMT3102 Business and its Social Stakeholders

MKTG2002 Sustainable Marketing

MKTG3024 Social Marketing

PHIL2114 Sustainability, System and Agency

POLS2011  Development and Change

The information published on the Study at ANU 2012 website applies to the 2012 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2011 website.

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