Presidio Graduate School

Courses in Sustainability

Yes

Sustainability course is

Required

Description

https://www.presidio.edu/academics/mba-in-sustainability/curriculum/

Research Opportunities in Sustainability

No

Description

School's environmental commitment 1:

Presidio Graduate School is the first and only independent graduate school dedicated entirely to educating those working for a more just and sustainable world. Our forward-looking curriculum integrates sustainability, social justice, and systems thinking, and we equip students with the mindset and skills to create tangible, positive change.

School's environmental commitment 2:

At Presidio Graduate School, we embrace the tension between equipping students for success in today?s world and creating the disruption necessary to bring about a better future. Our students learn current industry leadership best practices, but that?s only the beginning. By addressing the big, bold challenges of our time, classrooms at Presidio become incubators for transformative ideas, unexplored possibilities, and effective action plans. We don?t separate theory and practice in our classes; we combine them. Pragmatism and optimism work together to form lasting solutions that get us closer to a more sustainable, equitable world. That?s why our curriculum is outcome-focused and organized around systems thinking, responsible and inclusive leadership, and professional skills and tools. We believe that truly transformative ideas can be found by following the path of pragmatic inquiry?experience disciplined by reflection. Our students learn to balance continuous testing of on-the-ground experience against high-level theory.

School's environmental commitment 3:

Systems thinking is an approach to problem-solving that embraces complexity. Focusing on wholes, not parts, and viewing each situation as a set of elements that interact to produce predictable outcomes. Systems thinking is extremely effective in approaching complex issues that reoccur, that have been made worse by past ?solutions,? or that are influenced by outside forces such as the natural, social, or competitive environment. Systems thinking allows leaders and managers to both see and solve the problems that those trained in reductionist theory tend not to see?much less solve.