Postgraduate Course: Integrated Sustainability in the Boardroom (CMSE11670)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | Business performance is increasingly aligned with sustainability indicators, and yet the term ¿sustainability¿ is often poorly understood. Achieving sustainability is impossible without a clear understanding of what sustainability is and how it relates to economic activity. The sustainability crisis is caused by a complex mix of multiple, interwoven, diverse issues. The response must also be thought out, understood, strategised, and rolled out across all sectors of society, across all organisations, across all job descriptions, roles, and functions. This course explains the fundamentals of sustainability, discusses how to identify obstacles and turn them into opportunties, and shows you how to ¿do¿ sustainability no matter what your role is. This course will interrogate the meaning of sustainability, by clarifying key elements of climate, nature, and biodiversity science and linking them to the context of business activities. |
| Course description |
Specifically, students will learn where emissions and ecosystem degradation happen within the value chain, to better understand what activities cause, and what interventions can improve, environmental outcomes. Recognising the demands of KPIs, sustainability discussions are grounded in the reality of running an organisation, aiming to identify sustainability actions that are both meaningful and achievable. In this way, the course prepares students to make informed, effective decisions in the board room. This course will equip students with the skills and confidence to make strategic sustainability decisions. Students will then apply these lessons by writing a sustainability board report
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 16,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8,
Summative Assessment Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
54 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Individual |
| Feedback |
Summative Feedback will be provided within 15 working days on submitted coursework |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand and critically discuss how the science of carbon, nature, and biodiversity relates to business activities
- Identify and critically discuss the KPIs of stakeholders and connect these with an organisational sustainability agenda
- Create and critically reflect on sustainable strategy planning
- Identify and critically discuss available finance approaches to enable sustainability
- Identify and critically discuss best practice in sustainable approaches in terms of regulatory and voluntary frameworks
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Julian Rawel
Tel: (0131 6)50 8067
Email: Julian.Rawel@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sarah Yaxley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3475
Email: Sarah.Yaxley@ed.ac.uk |
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