2024-2025 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    Nov 11, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Course Catalog

Sustainable Organizations & Policy, MS


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Contact

Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

Admissions: Emily Rutherford, Associate Director of Admissions *315-443-2319* maxenroll@syr.edu
Advising: Emily Alber Chase, Associate Director of Student Services, Public Administration and International Affairs, *315-443-4000* paia@syr.edu
Jay Golden, Ph.D., Pontarelli Professor of Environmental Sustainability and Finance, Public Administration and International Affairs, jgolde04@syr.edu

Whitman School of Management

Todd Moss, Chair, Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Petinella Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, tmoss@syr.edu

Faculty

See faculty listing in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Whitman School of Management.

Overview

Syracuse University’s Maxwell and Whitman Schools offer a Master of Science in Sustainable Organizations & Policy, providing the skills and knowledge to become competent in economic, social, and environmental sustainability and their
interdependencies from public and private perspectives.

Through completing courses from both Maxwell and Whitman, students apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills through systems thinking perspectives applied to sustainability challenges, and learn to effectively communicate sustainability solutions.

Students conclude their one-year program with an experiential learning project in partnership with external organizations. They apply classroom learning, evaluate the organization’s current sustainability practices and policies, and generate value-added solutions to the organization’s sustainability challenges. 

Required Core (9 credits)


Students should take each of the courses below. 

Statistics/Required Core (3 credits)


Students should take one of the statistics/analytics courses below:

Elective Courses (12 credits)


Students should select courses from the courses below to a total of 12 credits.  Any other courses from the list from the Sustainability core may will also count as elective courses.

Additional SUNY-ESF courses from the list below will also count for elective credit:

- EST608 Environmental advocay campaigns and conflict resolution

- EST612 Environmental policy and governance

- EST613 Urbanization and the environment

- EST615 Environmental justice: Policy, tools & society

- EST617 Measuring environmental inequality

- EST640 Environmental thought and ethics

- EST645 Mass media and environmental affairs

- EST650 Environmental perception and human behavior

- EST705 Environmental policy analysis

- EST708 Social theory and the environment

- EST770 Regenerative approaches to sustainable futures

At least 12 credits total must be taken from Whitman courses and at least 12 credits total must be taken from Maxwell courses in order to satisfy graduation requirements of this joint program.

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