Spring 2026

Course Preview Week: January 20 - January 26, 2026
Semester Dates: January 27 - May 08, 2026

CourseCredits

SMGT 700 Cultural and Historical Foundations of Sustainability

In this course, you will investigate the changing relationships of humans to the natural environment, changes in dominant scientific perspectives, and the process of scientific debate. Explore the quest for understanding, manipulating, and dominating the natural world. And learn about cultural and organizational structures, the role and impact of technology, the systems approach to problem solving, and their implications for the future.

SMGT 700 course syllabus

3 Credits

SMGT 770 Leading Sustainable Organizations

Get a macro-level perspective on leading sustainable organizations. Topics include organizational change and transformation processes, strategic and creative thinking, organizational structures and their impacts, conflict management and negotiation, stakeholder management, and situational leadership styles and behaviors. The course focuses on how organizational leaders develop and enable sustainable organizations, especially in times of environmental change.

SMGT 770 course syllabus

3 Credits

SMGT 786 Climate Change

In this course, you will explore climate change through scientific, humanistic, and sustainability frameworks. After building a strong foundation in the causes, impacts, and study of climate change, you will apply this understanding to evaluate scientific communication, environmental justice and vulnerability, and environmental policy to find solutions and strategies to address anthropogenic climate change.

SMGT 786 course syllabus

3 Credits