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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - MAN6748
Tracking Number - 2202
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Current Status:
Approved, Permanent Archive - 2010-06-22
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: College approved 4/6/10; Grad Council approved 4/19/10; to SCNS Liaison 5/13/10; SCNS approved - posted in Banner. Effective 8/1/2010. Number changed from 6xxx to 6748
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-09-29
- Department: Management
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 140500
- Contact Person: Dr. Alan Balfour
- Phone: 9741785
- Email: abalfour@coba.usf.edu
- Prefix: MAN
- Number: 6748
- Full Title: Assessing Sustainable Performance of Organizations
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: D -
Discussion (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Assess Sus Perf of Orgs
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: None
- Corequisites: None
- Course Description: The course helps students to conceptualize a sustainable organization and use that as a benchmark to analyze the performance of organizations aspiring for long-term survival and growth.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Needed for program/concentration/certificate change
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Required for MS in Management students.
Elective for MBA and other graduate students.
Anticipation section per academic year.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, 3 or more times
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in Management or closely related field.
- Objectives: • To make students aware of the sustainable development philosophy and its business logic
• To make students aware of the corporate sustainability ideology
• To make students conceptualize a sustainable enterprise
• To make students aware of the concept of triple bottom line
• To make students aware of the various theoretical approaches to understand organizational performance
- Learning Outcomes: Students will develop their critical thinking abilities and analytical skills to assess the triple bottom line performance of corporations
- Major Topics: • The triple bottom line framework
• Theoretical lenses to understand organizational performance
• Corporate economic performance
• Corporate social performance
• Corporate environmental performance
• Corporate social performance, corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance
- Textbooks: Book: The triple bottom line: Does it all add up? by Adrian Henriques and Julie Richardson, 2004, Earthscan. ISBN: 1-84407-015-8
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: See syllabus
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: See syllabus
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: See syllabus
- Attendance Policy: See syllabus
- Policy on Make-up Work: See syllabus
- Program This Course Supports: Master of Science in Management MSM and Master of Business Admin (MBA)
- Course Concurrence Information: Master and Ph.D.
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.