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Apr 20, 2024
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BUS 4340 - Environmental Entrepreneurship, Community Vibrancy, and Innovation
Credit(s): 3
Large and small private-sector businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies are increasingly concerned about the impact they have on the environment and on communities in which they operate. Innovative activity within existing organizations is often initiated by intrepreneurs while innovative new organizations are often started by entrepreneurs. Students will learn how organizations strive to minimize their impact on the environment and make meaningful contributions to society. This course surveys practices and processes of sustainable develoment planning, and its application, methods and implementation at a variety of scales but primarily at the community and individual business level. Students will survey the many approaches to sustainable development, including perspectives from private, non-profit, and public sector actors. Students will evaluate the successes and failures, as well as the strengths and weaknesses, of community development methods, and the results of these efforts in achieving social equity, environmental, and economic sustainability at the community scale.
Prerequisites: BUS 1360 or equivalent course; or permission of instructor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
Notes: This course is offered every spring semester.
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