BSUS 7401 is a project based capstone course. As a capstone experience, the course is meant to serve an integrative role, bringing together all the concepts from the course work in the first term of the program. The course will consist of two projects, one of which each team of students will select to pursue. The two projects will address the two streams of specialisation, one stream will focus upon Sustainable Leadership within organizations, and the second stream will focus upon the formation and development of a Sustainable organization. In this course students will form teams based upon their interests and begin developing either an entrepreneurial Business Plan or a Sustainable Implementation Plan for an organization. All of the other courses in the first term are designed with the goal of feeding the Capstone Course. That is, all of the other courses will provide the knowledge, skills and abilities for students to successfully meet the requirements of BSUS 7401. Thus, this course is designed to explore the interfaces between sustainability, leadership and change management, operations management, marketing management, and environmental law within the context of entrepreneurial ventures, innovative for profit corporations, and non-profit ventures. The focus of this course is on gaining new venture/implementation experience. Students will learn how to identify a good business or change management opportunity by evaluating the needs in the community, environmental forces creating the opportunity, and the profit potential of the business opportunity. The central focus of the course will be on the Capstone Project, where students not only have to come up with an innovative concept or idea, but also have to meet the test of implementation.

In this course students will work on solving natural environmental challenges while achieving profitability. We will examine a number of industries and topics through a sustainability lens, including renewable energy, natural and organic products, green building, supply chains and distribution, and sustainable consulting, among others. Sustainable venturing opportunities will be examined from the perspective of both entrepreneurial start-up firms and established entrepreneurial companies. The course is intended to be highly interactive and will include guest speakers, cases, student presentations, and debates. Students will explore opportunities for creating and launching businesses designed around principles of sustainability. This course will further address social corporate responsibility and social entrepreneurship. Working in teams, students will develop and present a concise business plan and participate in a simulated "investor forum".

This course is designed to provide an interdisciplinary group of learners with the knowledge and skills to develop and manage their professional practice while considering sustainability imperatives. Principles of industrial ecology, ecological restoration and succession, and urban world issues are covered in a manner that reveals constrains but also opportunities and strategies for balancing environmental, social and economic perspectives. In addition, the changing roles and approaches in governance systems and the role of stakeholders in decision making will be discussed. Prerequisite: Diploma of Technology or Degree in Engineering, Science or Natural Resources.

This course provides an overview of the Canadian legal system and sources of environmental law. It addresses federal, provincial, and local government powers to regulate the environment, as well as British Columbia and federal environmental laws governing water, air, transportation of dangerous goods, contaminated land, and waste and hazardous substance management. Sources of liability for individuals, directors and officers, companies and environmental professionals and the basic elements of due diligence are also covered. In addition, this course addresses environmental regulation of various natural resource sectors in BC, including forestry, mining, energy, and fishing. The course covers laws regulating environmental impact assessment and environmental aspects of municipal and regional land use planning processes and the role of aboriginal rights in environmental and natural resource management.

This course deals with current issues in sustainable operations management. These issues may range from environmental issues such as waste minimisation, greenhouse gasses, landfill, recycling, reverse logistics and globalisation of operations. Students will look at these issues from the perspectives of both business and the environment. The course will include discussions on Environmental Policy as related to businesses, and students will have the opportunity to conduct an environmental audit.

This course focuses on helping students to discover what leaders do to create and lead sustainable and ethical corporate cultures. The course is particularly designed to build the essential skill of leading organizational change. The class examines the practices of some of the world's most successful conventional local and international business leaders and evaluating their performance against a list of criteria that students themselves develop. Then the class examines the practices of unconventional leaders and evaluates them against the same criteria. Students then develop hypotheses about what makes for effective leadership, and they create diagnostic tools to test the effects leaders have on organizational behaviour and culture. The cases used in the course focus on the issue of organizational sustainability - that is, on how successful companies engage in continual transformation by institutionalising adaptive capabilities. Moving beyond traditional "change management", students explore how leaders at these companies free their organizations from the catch-up game of lurching from crisis to crisis in response to changes in the environment. Class discussions cover such essential strategic leadership topics as organizational adaptability, alignment and self-renewal, and the concept of corporate culture (what it is, why it is important, how to measure it, and the role leaders play in establishing, changing, and sustaining it). Through case discussions, students deepen their understanding of such key concepts as values-based leadership and ethics with regard to key stakeholders, and learn what it means to apply them in practice. Using Willard’s guide we will determine how sustainability champions at any level in a company can lead a transformation to a smarter, more successful, and more sustainable enterprise - identifying the steps to take, tips and techniques to use, and de-railers to avoid.

BSUS 7402 is a project based capstone course that extends the project begun in BSUS 7401. As a capstone experience, the course is meant to serve an integrative role, bringing together all the components of course work in the second term of the program and the business/sustainability plan students began in the first term. The course will consist of two projects, one of which each team of students will have begun in the first term. The two projects will address the two streams of specialisation, one stream will focus upon Sustainable Leadership within organizations, and the second stream will focus upon the formation and development of a Sustainable organization. In this course students will continue in their teams formed in the first term and continue to develop either an entrepreneurial Business Plan or a Sustainable Implementation Plan for an organization. All of the other courses in the second term are designed with the goal of feeding the Capstone Course. That is, all of the other course will provide the knowledge, skills and abilities for students to successfully meet the requirements of BSUS 7402. This course is designed to explore the interfaces between climate change and GHG management, industrial ecology, ecological economics, entrepreneurship and sustainable accounting and finance within the context of entrepreneurial ventures, innovative for profit corporations, and non-profit ventures. The focus of this course is on gaining new venture/implementation experience. Students will learn how to implement a good business or change management opportunity by evaluating the needs in the community, environmental forces creating the opportunity, and the profit potential of the business opportunity. The central focus of the course will be on the Capstone Project, where you implement an innovative concept or idea. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Term 1 courses.

This course will offer a framework for education in the field of ecological economics, by providing a theoretical grounding in economics from first principles, therein exploring the fundamental principles of efficiency in the distribution of resources in society. Virtually all decision-making in the socio-environmental domain is affected by these principles. The course covers not only conventional (neo-classical) economics but also criticisms of this dominant paradigm. This course provides a conceptual understanding of economics and uses case studies to discuss applications in practice, by examining the principles of economics and how they might be applied to environmental and resource use issues. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Term 1 courses.

This course introduces students to the relatively new, multidisciplinary field of industrial ecology. Industrial ecology seeks to understand how ecosystems function, and to apply this understanding to our industrial (and even overall economic) systems to move them towards sustainability. This is an assignment based course, with assignments designed to provide students with experience in the practical application of industrial ecology. The course will: (1) Examine the theoretical foundation for industrial ecology; (2) Present an overview of some of the main research themes; (3) Introduce students to some of the key sub-concepts in industrial ecology, such as industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks; and (4) Introduce students to tools for implementing industrial ecology.The course will also provide a more in-depth look at eco-industrial parks, the most tangible application of industrial ecology. While the course will focus on the Canadian context, it will also introduce students to industrial ecology research and practice worldwide. Prerequisites: EENG 7200

This course provides an introduction to the structure and properties of the atmosphere and major sources and impacts of air pollution. The main focus is on greenhouse gases (GHG) and radiative forcing. The science of climate change along with the impacts of the changing climate, mitigation strategies from innovative technologies to sustainable management options as well as adaptation strategies form the bulk of the course. Leading practices by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism and other GHG protocols are covered. Social responsibility and accountability in designing and implementing strategies and action plans for GHG reductions, carbon taxation and carbon offset solutions are also covered. Prerequisites: EENG 7200

This course will discuss accounting and finance concepts focussed on sustainable business practices. Businesses are realigning and in some cases, reinventing their organizations toward more sustainable business models. Accounting and Finance reporting techniques and analytical methods used by entities will be examined that enable organizations to reduce their firm’s negative environmental and social impacts while, in many cases, increasing assurance, profits, returns, and competitive advantage. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Term 1 courses.

The aim of the course is to develop practitioners in sustainable business leadership who can use and promote sustainable marketing approaches in organizations. The course is designed to provide the student with an overview of the business environment and the effects of current practices on the health of the earth. This course will present trends toward decreasing the footprint that companies have when producing, distributing, and marketing products and services. Sustainable Marketing practices are covered and how they can be applied to any type of organization or service. Controllable and uncontrollable elements of marketing, strategic planning, market characteristics, marketing research techniques, market segmentation, target market selection and marketing communications practices are covered. Case studies and current company strategies are reviewed in labs. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Term 1 courses.