Course in Sustainability in Business to Be Offered This Summer
Are you interested in taking a summer class in the first session? Are you a junior or a senior? Or a graduate student? Are you interested in the idea of Sustainability in Business?
If so, read on!
Professor David Graham Hyatt is offering the class WCOB 3023/5023 Sustainability in Business this summer. This class requires no previous knowledge of business or sustainability. It will meet from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily from Monday through Friday from May 26 to June 26.
This class is designed to help you:
- Develop an understanding of sustainable development as an important element of practices and a value driver for businesses and other organizations
- See how economic, environmental and social issues are an integral, interrelated (and complex) part of the landscape in which institutions operate
- Gain awareness and literacy regarding global environmental and social change
- Apply your understanding of sustainability at three levels: societal, organizational, and individual. Identify next steps to better leverage sustainable development.
Download a syllabus PDF or contact Hyatt for more information at dhyatt@uark.edu.
Contacts
David Graham Hyatt, clinical assistant professor
Department of Supply Chain Management
479-575-6085,
dhyatt@uark.edu
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