GRADUATE HANDBOOK 2015-2016 August 2015 Master of Sustainability Leadership School of Sustainability Arizona State University Mailing Address: PO Box 875502, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502 Physical Location: 800 South Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281 Phone: 480-727-6963 Fax: 480-727-9902 School Website: http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu Access Student Resources: https://my.asu.edu Current Student Inquiries: [email protected]Future Student Inquiries: [email protected]Career Services: [email protected]Graduation: [email protected]Alumni Association: [email protected]
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GRADUATE HANDBOOK 2015-2016
August 2015
Master of Sustainability Leadership
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University Mailing Address: PO Box 875502, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502
Physical Location: 800 South Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281
Phone: 480-727-6963 Fax: 480-727-9902
School Website: http://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu
Plan of Study ................................................................................... 10 Course and Capstone Requirements .................................................... 10
Note: Core courses have been developed to be taken as pairs (i.e., Global Context I
with Strategy I, Communication I with Leadership I, etc.). The assignments in these
pairs of courses have been balanced so as not to be too overwhelming in any unit
and are often started in one course and completed or modified in the other course.
SOS 501 and Introduction to Capstone are also integrated with the core courses
taught concurrently.
Note: Electives can be done in the summer sessions if available.
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Session
A Session
B Session
A Session
B Session C
Session A
Session B
Session A
Session B
Course 1
GC I Com I GC II Com II GC III Com III Elective 1 Elective 3
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Course 2
Strat I Lead I Strat II Lead II Strat III Lead III Elective 2
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Course 3
Foundations of Sustainability
Intro to Capstone Capstone I Capstone II
Credits 1 1 1 2
TOTAL CREDITS
9 9 9 8
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Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Session
A Session
B Session
A Session
B Session C
Session A
Session B
Session A
Session B
Course 1
GC I Com I GC II Com II GC III Com III Elective 1
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
Course 2
Strat I Lead I Strat II Lead II Strat III Lead III Elective 2
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 3
Course 3
Foundations of Sustainability
Intro to Capstone Capstone I Capstone II
Credits 1 1 1 2
TOTAL CREDITS
9 9 9 8
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Session
A Session
B Session
A Session
B Session C
Session A
Session B
Session A
Course 1
GC I Com I GC II Com II Elective 1 GC III Com III
Credits 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
Course 2
Strat I Lead I Strat II Lead II Elective 2 Strat III Lead III
Credits 2 2 2 2 3 2 2
Course 3
Foundations of Sustainability
Intro to Capstone Capstone I Capstone
II
Credits 1 1 1 2
TOTAL CREDITS
9 9 6 9 2
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Spring 2016
Summer 2016
Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017
Session
A Session
B Session C
Session A
Session B
Session A
Session B
Session A
Session B
Course 1
GC I Com I GC II Com II GC III Com III Elective 1 Elective 3
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Course 2
Strat I Lead I Strat II Lead II Strat III Lead III Elective 2
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Course 3
Foundations of Sustainability
Intro to Capstone Capstone Capstone
Credits 1 1 1 2
TOTAL CREDITS
9 9 9 8
Spring 2016 Summer
2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017
Session
A Session
B Session C
Session A
Session B
Session A
Session B
Session C
Course 1
GC I Com I Elective 1 GC II Com II GC III Com III Elective 2
Credits 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 3
Course 2
Strat I Lead I Strat II Lead II Strat III Lead III
Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2
Course 3
Foundations of Sustainability
Intro to Capstone Capstone Capstone
Credits 1 1 1 2
TOTAL CREDITS
9 3 9 9 5
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Course Descriptions
Core
SOS 501 Foundations of Sustainability
Foundations of Sustainability provides students with a knowledge base to help them succeed in the online MSL program. It is designed to support MSL students in the four learning threads of the program, which include Communications and Sustainability, Global Context, Strategic Sustainability and Sustainability Leadership. It provides a dynamic set of resources that students can draw on in their first sessions as well as throughout their program.
EMS 502: Global Context I In this course, students will explore iconic sustainability issues and trends and their impact on their organization, institutions, communities and stakeholders. Students will apply tools to identify the relevant risks and opportunities within their organizational context and investigate potential responses.
EMS 503: Strategy I This course will explore the interface between strategy and sustainability, developing a framework for strategic sustainability that underpins authentic and transparent strategic efforts. Students will engage in mapping, planning and prioritizing methods, tools and techniques to identify and assess strategic opportunities.
EMS 504 Communications I
This course will help you survey your internal communications environment, understand your target audiences and their unique customer centricities, and develop your voice through the use of proven story structure.
EMS 505: Leadership I
This course will enable students to meld powerful and traditional leadership skills while challenging the student’s prior knowledge with multiple lens of leadership in a sustainability context. Students will create a personal plan for their unique needs and
personal growth toward sustainability leadership.
EMS 506: Global Context II
While Global Context I introduced students to some basic challenges of locating their organization in a larger, global system of sustainability challenges, Global Context II begins to explore more proactive response strategies to these global challenges available to organizations within the current context.
EMS 507: Strategy II
This course uses reframing, re-visioning and backcasting via a sustainability lens as constructs for introducing strategic sustainability across all aspects of an organization—both internally and externally. Students will apply various methods such as Natural Capitalism, Design for Sustainability/Method of Sustainable Product Design, Anderson Method, Cradle to Cradle and Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development to develop flexible action platforms for sustainable enterprises. Students are expected to create a strategic vision, action plan for an organization, including critical external partnerships with communities and institutions.
EMS 509 Communications II
This course will have you map internal, external and target audiences/markets, strategize channels to reach them with your sustainability stories, and have you create a multi-channel communications plan that incorporates modes of engagement for all audiences.
EMS 510: Leadership II
This course will engage students to challenge their prior definitions of systems, responsibility and community from the perspective of sustainability and leadership and provide them with a toolbox for leading with sustainability as a fundamental success platform. Students will create the second phase of their EMS 505 personal plan to help lead others toward sustainability leadership.
EMS 511 Global Context III
Students will learn from successes and failures of current and past attempts and assess the implications for this change in leadership perspective to their organizational context.
EMS 512- Strategy III
Students will apply their enhanced strategic sustainability skills to examine select case studies on international sustainability in corporate and non-governmental agencies.
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EMS 513 Communications III
This course will ignite the storyteller within as you learn to think link an author, craft your stories in scenes, and produce your presentations to entertain, educate and engage your audiences to move them to action. Your transformation into a courageous storyteller will reveal itself in an 18-minute presentation that will combine your compelling narrative with captivating visual storytelling. Plus, you will create an editorial calendar and social media strategy to publish your stories to help express your thought leadership in sustainability online.
EMS 514: Leadership III
This course will engage the student to identify and apply pathways to inspire, persuade and influence others to act towards a shared global vision. Future orientation, reframing organizations to be globally scalable and still be locally focused, leadership best practices for diverse, multinational, and international human talents and redefining success and growth using sustainability as a success lens are great tasks that sustainability leaders will face.
Capstone
SOS 593 Introduction to Capstone (1 credit)
This course will help students select and prepare for their final capstone project. Students will have an opportunity to present and discuss their concepts and plans with faculty and with other students in the cohort.
SOS 593 Capstone The capstone will span the course of various semesters. Students will work closely with faculty to develop, execute and present a sustainability leadership project of their choice. In the first phase of this course, students will chose a project under the guidance of a faculty member based on individual student interest. In the second phase, students will develop and execute their project proposal. In the third and final phase of this course, students will prepare a final presentation with documentation which will be delivered online.
Focus Electives
Note: Electives can be done in the summer.
Military (3 2-credit) SOS 503 Operationalizing Sustainability
Operationalizing Sustainability will explore practical applications for innovative training methods, improved land and natural resource management practices and enhanced community relationships that affect military operations around the world. The course will examine the importance of winning hearts and minds within the community in order to ensure continued access to land and water assets necessary for maintaining operational readiness. It will also
examine proactive approaches for promoting Soldier, civilian and family wellbeing.
SOS 504: Energy and the Built Environment
This course, Energy and the Built Environment, provides practical approaches toapplying sustainability principles and practices to public works activities, housing, facilities operations and management, military construction, master planning, and energy management. Approaches to implement high performance sustainable building design, construction, operation and management, maintenance, and deconstruction are presented. Cost-effective, innovative strategies, such as highly reflective and vegetated roofs, to minimize consumption of energy, water, and materials are also covered.
SOS 505 Sustainable Acquisition and Logistics
As a result of taking this class, you are going to Study the current state of the military supply chain, Explore ways to enhance and build the future, Discuss sustainability, energy and foot-printing initiatives within the military, Engage in life cycle and cost analysis, Build a case study and write a report on sustainability, Discuss the future state of military supply chain and sustainability.
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Law (2 3-credit or 3 2-credit) LAW 523: Property Indicia of ownership, found property, estates in land, landlord
tenant, nonpossessory interests in property, nuisance, land use planning, and transfers of interests in property.
LAW 631: Environmental Law Litigation, administrative law, and legislation relating to problems of environmental quality. Topics covered may include air and water pollution, toxic substances, pesticides, and radiation.
LAW 643: Water Law Acquisition of water rights; water use controls; interstate conflicts.