SUSTAINABILITY
Embrace efficiency
This Bachelor of Science (BS) STEM major aims to equip students with the necessary knowledge and skills to identify, quantify, and communicate an organization’s impact on and from environmental factors, and drive change toward more sustainable organizational practices. The program follows a strong interdisciplinary approach and covers the scientific, technological, psychological, business, and policy aspects of sustainability.
Students will gain an understanding of environmental science and how nature and human activity interact. The current technological know-how to mitigate and adapt to environmental challenges is covered with an emphasis on practical implementation and feasibility. The history and rapidly evolving policy landscape in sustainability and environmental management are studied from both local and global perspectives. Students will learn how attitudes toward sustainability form and evolve in society, and how these attitudes, in turn, affect business strategy and performance. Students will acquire skills to identify areas for improvement within organizations and to develop effective strategies to achieve such improvements through quantitative and qualitative research methods.
This major offers students the opportunity to enter one of the most rapidly growing fields — sustainability and efficiency — and to learn the best practices and innovations for navigating one of the biggest challenges that humanity is facing. Graduating students will be well-equipped to develop and lead sustainability initiatives within organizations.
Required and Elective Courses
Required for major
- Behavior Change
- Brand Management
- Climate Science
- Collective Behavior
- Design Thinking
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Law, Regulation & Strategy
- Prospecting the Future
- Research Methodology & Design
- Sustainability
Electives towards the major
- Behavioral Economics
- Data Analytics and Insight
- Human Perceptions
- Innovation & Creativity
- Organizational Innovation
- Product Strategy & Product Mgmt
- Technology Entrepreneurship
- Independent Study
- Internship / Practicum / Independent Study
Learning Outcomes
NewU Students majoring in Sustainability will graduate being able to
- Be able to measure the environmental impact of an organization
- Learn how green and sustainable finance shape investment decisions
- Learn how to drive change toward greater sustainability in organizations
- Understand the global regulatory landscape with respect to climate
- Understand the factors that shape attitude toward climate science in society
- Attain knowledge and understanding of the scientific evidence for climate fluctuations
- Learn to apply methods for forecasting the impact of climate fluctuations using scenario analysis
- Learn how technology and innovation can be used to tackle the challenges of climate fluctuations
- Learn how to deal with the uncertainty inherent in climate fluctuations and prepare organizations accordingly
- Learn how to navigate the changing societal preferences for sustainability and understand their implications for organizations
- Acquire skills to collect and analyze data to successfully implement environmental, social, and governance initiatives in organizations