In addition to the requirements below for the MBA in Sustainable Business, students need to satisfy the general requirements for a master’s degree.

In order to qualify for the degree of MBA in Sustainable Business, students must successfully complete 74 units of course work as follows:

Foundational M.B.A. Courses (40 units)

• MGT 402 Managing for Sustainability (4 units)
• MGT 424 Statistics for Business and Environmental Management (4 units) or MGT 524 Statistics for Business Process Improvement (4 units)
• MGT 425 Marketing Management (4 units)
• MGT 315 Financial Accounting (4 units)
• MGT 427 Operations Management (4 units)
• MGT 428 Business Law and Ethics (4 units)
• MGT 429 Human Resource Management (4 units)
• MGT 430 Financial Management (4 units)
• MGT 482 Management and Organization (4 units)
• MGT 432 Entrepreneurship Project (4 units)

Students may waive any course in the M.B.A. program, up to 36 credits, by having completed an equivalent undergraduate or graduate course at an accredited university and earned a grade of at least B. Students who waive at least 28 credits in the M.B.A. foundations and core courses may waive the requirement to take MGT 432 Entrepreneurship Project.

M.B.A. Core Courses (16 units)

The following courses are required of all students in this program:

• MGT 404 Managerial Accounting (4 units)
• MGT 567 World Class Quality and Performance (4 units)
• MGT 502 Sustainable Continuous Improvement I (4 units)
• MGT 580 Sustainable Continuous Improvement II (4 units)

Electives (18 units)

With the permission of the department chair, a maximum of 8 units may be taken as courses designated 400–level or above in other departments of the University or as 300–level courses in Sustainable Living or Biology.

Electives in Sustainability

• MGT 414 Taxation (4 units)
• MGT 509 Performance Improvement Project (4 units)
• MGT 524 Statistics for Business Process Improvement (4 units)
• MGT 5310 Sustainable Technologies (4 units)
• MGT 5311 Sustainable Economics (4 units)
• MGT 5312 Capstone Project (4 units)
• SL 330 Bio-Cultural Ethics (4 units)
• SL 350 Environmental Planning and Landscaping (4 units)
• SL 405 Ecology (4 units)
• SL 420 Alternative Energy (4 units)
• SL 428 Sustainable Living Workshop (4 units)
• SL 445 Environmental Law (4 units)
• SL 450 Environmental Planning and Landscaping (4 units)
• BIO 328 Ethnobotany (4 units)
• BIO 338 Organic Agriculture (4 units)
• BIO 341 Permaculture Design (4 units)
• BIO 375 Earth Science (4 units)
• BIO 405 Sustainable Global Environment (4 units)
• GOV 420 Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy (4 units)

The above information is subject to change any time. Students already enrolled at the University should contact the graduation director for their degree requirements. The content of this page was reviewed in September 2008.

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