The minor in Sustainable Business Practices provides a specific academic path for students from any college within the university to study the emerging interdisciplinary field of sustainability. Students apply what they have learned in the classroom to practical field projects in communities domestically and internationally. The minor is a university-wide undergraduate academic program and is designed to complement any Northeastern major with critical knowledge of sustainability. The goals of the program are to give students a deeper understanding of sustainability issues and the tools to address the issues in a business environment.
Curriculum
The program consists of five courses (20 semester hours) in which the D'Amore-McKim School of Business partners with departments in the various colleges at Northeastern. Students take three courses on campus, plus an eight-credit summer field research program focused on issues of sustainability.
Required Courses
Sustainability in the Business Environment
Eight-credit Field Research Program
Elective Courses
Choose two elective courses with no more than three of the five courses in the minor from any one college:
Environmental Science
Environmental Geology
Oceans and Coasts
Dynamic Earth
Sustainable Development
Environment and Humankind
Environmental Engineering |
Environmental Economics
Wealth and Poverty
Energy Systems
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Politics
Environment and Society
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Students may take one elective course for the minor at an NU-sanctioned study abroad program.