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Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability-Related Coursework

Available to Carlson School MBA Students

(as of November 2009)

Carlson School Course Descriptions

MBA 6315: The Ethical Environment of Business (fulfills Ethics requirement)

Analysis of ethical dilemmas and development of appropriate responses; relationship of ethical management to the law; implications for corporate profitability; managing shareholders vs. managing stakeholders; issues such as protection of the environment, workplace safety, product liability, regulation, and fiduciary obligations.

Prereq: MBA student

Instructor: Snyder, Steven and others

MGMT 5019: Business, Natural Environment, and Global Economy

Resource deployment policies that affect the natural environment. Sustainability. Local/global environmental threats, how government policies address these issues. Business strategies/practices that produce "win-win" outcomes.

Prereq: MBA student

Instructor: Marcus, Alfred A

MGMT 6402: Integrative Leadership: From Theory to Practice

Seminar. Strategic challenges linking business, government, and society locally/globally. Co-led by faculty from Carlson and Humphrey Institute. International network of leaders/organizations participate. Students develop case studies as part of capstone projects.

Prereq: Concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PA 5190, Concurrent registration is required (or allowed) in PA 5191, [CSOM or Humphrey or master's student]

Instructor: Kiedrowski,P. Jay, Vaaler,Paul Martin

IBUS: Scandinavia Seminar – Corporate Social Responsibility

This program explores the concepts of corporate responsibility and business ethics by providing students with a comparative U.S. – Scandinavian perspective. To demonstrate the importance of these concepts in the context of international business, this course will explore the successful Scandinavian approach. Students meet with leaders of multinational firms, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to develop an understanding of the effect of globalization on ethics, culture, and business.

Contact the International Programs Office for more information

IBUS: Costa Rica Seminar – Business and the Environment

This program explores in depth the concepts and principles of “green business.” The focus is on how businesses can maintain and even increase profits as a result of taking care of the environment. US and International faculty lead sessions that delve into issues of sustainable development and environmental strategy for business around the world

Contact the International Programs Office for more information

IBUS: London and Brussels Ethics Seminar – The Ethical Environment of International Business

This program explores in depth the concepts and principles of corporate social responsibility. The focus is on providing students with a comparative U.S. – European perspective on ethical business practices. Students meet with leaders of multinational firms, governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations in Brussels and London develop an understanding of the effect of globalization on ethics, culture, and business.

Contact the International Programs Office for more information

Independent Study Classes

Students are allowed to complete Independent Study (Directed Study) as a part of their MBA program. The procedure for completing an independent study is as follows:

1) Decide on the area/topic you would like to study, i.e. Corporate Social Responsibility.

2) Find a faculty member who would be willing to work with you.

3) Develop an outline on what you will study, how many credits you will pursue, how it will be done, the timeline for completion, regular times for you and the faculty to meet regarding progress, etc.

4) The faculty member must email the Registrar the above information and his/her intent to work with you and for how many credits. 5) The Registrar will register you for the appropriate credits.

Additionally, Carlson MBA students will be able to take the courses listed below only if seats are open after the standard registration period for students enrolled within those programs, i.e. Law students will receive priority for the Law School courses.

Law School Course Descriptions

LAW6126: Water Law

| |This course examines the legal mechanisms by which society allocates and protects its most vital natural resource — water. The primary emphasis is on current |

| |legal and policy debates, but the course also addresses the history of water policy and the evolution of water law in the United States. The course explores the|

| |riparian and prior appropriation doctrines governing private use of surface waters; public rights in water resources; federal and state water resources |

| |development, allocation, and control; alternative means of responding to the growing worldwide scarcity of fresh water; the appropriate role for market-based |

| |approaches; protection of threatened groundwater resources; environmental limits on water development (including the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water |

| |Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the public trust doctrine); watershed protection and restoration; Native American water rights; and mechanisms for |

| |resolving or avoiding interstate and international conflicts over shared water resources. Although courses in Water Law have traditionally focused on issues |

| |arising in the arid Western United States where competing claims on water are most acute, the comparatively water-rich East is also becoming increasingly |

| |water-constrained, prompting reconsideration of longstanding legal doctrines and policies. This course will attempt to balance Western and Eastern perspectives,|

| |while also addressing important international developments. Examination |

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Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

LAW6814: RICO Seminar

Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) 18 U.S.C. 1961. This course concerns litigation under the federal RICO statute.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6830: Corporate Compliance Seminar

Corporate compliance programs are currently a "hot topic" in corporate America and with regulators, whistleblowers and plaintiffs' bar. These programs often are mandated by consent decrees and now essential part of corporate governance. Topics will include compliance program elements, compliance system structure, assessing compliance program effectiveness, defining legal requirements, interface with legal structures, auditing/investigation and reporting violations to the government.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6832: Cyberspace and the Law Seminar

This seminar examines the current and emerging legal issues related to technology. The course work will cover intellectual property, commercial, and personal legal issues affected by technology, as well as background on the impact of technology on the practice of law. Topics include shrinkwrap licensing, software development and acquisitions contracts, trademark dilution, privacy, 1st Amendment issues, computer based evidence, online provider liability, and jurisdictional concerns.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6853: Law, Biomedicine & Bioethics Seminar

This seminar will consider key topics at the intersection of law, biology, medicine, and bioethics, including research on human subjects, behavioral biology, medically assisted procreation and reproductive decision making, maternal-fetal relations, genetic testing and screening, genetic engineering and cloning, the definition of death, the termination of life-sustaining treatment, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, organ transplantation and artificial organs, and human enhancement. In each area we will investigate the role of law and its relationship to ethics, the interaction of law and ethics with medical and scientific practice, and the success or failure of law and ethics in responding to the central challenges. Each student will prepare a paper in consultation with the instructor.

Enrollment is limited to 16 students, plus 4 additional spaces for non-law students.

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Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6855: Environmental Remediation and Redevelopment

Focusing on litigation, resolution and redevelopment, this seminar will provide an in-depth treatment of the law and practical realities of dealing with real property that has been subject to environmental contamination (also known as “brownfields”). The course will first present the primary laws that govern contaminated property, namely the Superfund laws (CERCLA and, in Minnesota, MERLA) and the common law torts of nuisance, negligence, and strict liability. After that introduction, the course will teach practical skills surrounding how to litigate these cases, by using two recent federal court cases involving contaminated property that went through jury trial and appeal (the Reilly and KBA cases) as case studies. Through these cases we will study initial pleadings, drafting discovery, dispositive motion practice, working with environmental and appraisal experts, and general trial tactics. Finally, this seminar will address the issues related to redeveloping brownfields property, including buying and selling such properties, obtaining liability assurance letters from the government, and funding options. This course is important for students interested in practicing in the areas of environmental law, land use, real estate law or real estate litigation or who are looking for a practical skills litigation course.

Final Exam not a paper Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6868: Business Environmental Law Seminar

Serious challenges face businesses and business people under the environmental laws. This seminar examines environmental issues and constraints in the context of typical business transactions (formation and realignment of business entities, buying and selling properties, lending and borrowing, producing and selling products, waste disposal and dealing with insolvency.) Our focus includes the legislative, administrative and judicial rules that allocate liability for damage to the environment and the lawyer's role in recognizing and minimizing client's liabilities. Creative deal structuring and contracts, emerging trends and useful tools are highlighted. A paper and class participation determines grading.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6874: Law & Public Policy Seminar

|This seminar has three goals. First, and most important, the seminar allows you to write a research paper on a subject of your choice. Second, the seminar aims | |

|to introduce you to selected tools used for policy | |

|analysis such as cost-benefit analysis. Third, the seminar introduces you to selected issues concerning education. As to the paper, you may pick any topic which| |

|provides you with professionally relevant intellectual capital that you wish to acquire. The topic must be sufficiently narrow that you can make an intellectual| |

|contribution to the subject you present. A broad subject which might require a book-length treatment for the author to make a contribution would not be | |

|appropriate. During the last third of the semester each of you will present your research topic to the class. Most often the presentation is of a draft, not a | |

|final version, of your paper. | |

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6878: Health Law Seminar

This seminar will cover current topics in Health Law, including legal and

regulatory issues with patient safety, HIPAA, fraud and abuse issues,

professional liability, tort reform, medical staff and health plan credentialing and

current issues in managed care.

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Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6919: Health Care Fraud & Abuse Seminar

|This seminar will explore fraud and abuse laws governing the health care industry. Fraud & abuse is an area of law that spans the breadth of health care | |

|industry, shaping transactions, practices and relationships. | |

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Credits: 2

Prerequisites: None

LAW6886: International Human Rights

This class will provide an introduction to international human rights: law, policy, and process. The class will focus on different aspects of the study of international human rights to provide a representative sampling of the subject through: 1) various procedural postures, 2) diverse institutional settings, 3) a geographical spread of countries, 4) several substantive human rights and humanitarian law norms, and 5) changing approaches to learning. The class will be conducted through lectures, speakers, problems for discussion, small group discussions, role playing exercises, etc. The class will touch on each of the major procedural channels for implementing human rights: on-site observation and fact-finding, state reporting, individual complaints, emergency procedures, state v. state complaints, litigation in domestic courts, legislative hearings, public discourse in international forums, the work of nongovernmental organizations, criminal prosecution, procedures for compensating victims, etc. The problems are set in most of the major international institutions, and include procedures of the UN, the Human Rights Committee, the Inter-American Commission on and Court of Human Rights, the European human rights system, international criminal tribunals, and nongovernmental organizations. The principal focus is on factual contexts in the United States or efforts that can be mounted from this country, but chapters also relate to violations and perspectives in other countries.

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Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Public Affairs Course Descriptions

PA5111: Public and Non-Profit Sector Financial Management

Description:  This course focuses on management of financial resources for public and nonprofit organizations. Emphasis is placed on operating and capital budgeting, short-term and long-term debt management, retirement financing, and endowment investing. Conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques will be emphasized and applied to analyze real-world financial problems. Micromanagement of financial resources is also examined in the broader contexts of the performance of the national or regional economy. Lecture, discussion, problem solving, case analysis.

Prereq:   5003 or instr consent ; 5011 or 5941 recommended

PA 5190 Topics in Public and Nonprofit Leadership and Management: Social Entrepreneurship

Description:  Student may contact the instructor or department for information.

Prereq:   5011 or 5941 or grad nonprofit mgmt cert or instr consent

PA5511: Community Economic Development (Fall Term only)

Description:  Contexts/motivations behind community economic development activities. Alternative strategies for organizing/initiating economic development projects. Tools/techniques for economic development analysis/planning (market analysis, feasibility studies, development plans). Implementation at local level.

Prereq: Grad or instructor consent

PA5711: Science and Technology Policy

Effect of science/technology on relations among nations in such matters as autonomy, national security, economic strength, environment, cultural identity, and international cooperation. Negotiating international agreements with S&T implications.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Grad student or instructor consent

PA5721: Energy and Environmental Policy

Impact of energy production/consumption choices on environmental quality, sustainable development, and other economic/social goals. Emphasizes public policy choices for energy/environment, linkages between them.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Grad student or instructor consent

PA5722: Environmental and Resource Economics Policy

Public policy associated with natural resource use and environmental protection. Develops/applies economic concepts/methodologies/policy mechanisms. Principles of environmental/resource economics. Issues related to renewable/nonrenewable resources and environmental pollution. Focuses on scientific/political aspects of policy.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Grad student or instructor consent

PA5801: Global Public Policy

U.S. general diplomacy, security policy, foreign economic policy and international technology policy. Emphasizes analysis of security, trade, investment, monetary policy, tax policy, immigration policy, technology sharing and environmental cooperation.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Grad student or instructor consent

PA5941: Leadership for the Common Good

This course is a participatory seminar designed to engage students in study, thought, discussion and reflection on eight capabilities of leadership: Leadership in Context, Personal Leadership, Team Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Visionary Leadership, Political Leadership, Ethical Leadership, and Policy Entrepreneurship. Guest speakers will share their expertise throughout the semester and course participants are encouraged to share their personal experiences as well.

PA8790: Nanotechnology and Society

Selected topics; refer to Appendix D for sample syllabus

Credits: 1-3

Prerequisites: Grad student or instructor consent

Other Courses:

ANTH 5980 (also ANTH 8810):  Topics in Anthropology – Anthropology and Business – Ethnographic Perspectives on Advertising, Management, Marketing and Innovation. 

It is currently listed, although there is no further description available.  Essentially the course intends to teach practical ethnographic method applied to multiple business contexts/opportunities.  We will feature guest speakers, field trips and field work.  The particular attraction to budding entrepreneurs might be really learning how to discover “What is the customer’s particular point of pain?” and “What are their unmet and unarticulated needs?”.

CE 5180: Design for Sustainable Development

Working in teams of three to five individuals, students will develop sustainable business and technical solutions for one of two challenges offered. The first challenge is to build an affordable and sustainable mechanism for reuse and/or recycling of water in an economically disadvantaged area in Mumbai, India. The details of the second challenge are still being worked out, but it will center on energy issues in the developing world. A primary objective for the course is up-front work to identify the "right" problem to solve, including design thinking techniques, analysis of observation data, and investigation of business opportunity. During the course, students design a product or service, and a business model around that product or service. Technical and business development professionals will be available as mentors, and each team will have members based in India.

Net Impact is a global network

of leaders who are changing the world through business.

Carlson: carlsonschool.umn.edu/Page4968.aspx

National:

For more information contact:

Anil Hurkadli – Vice-president of Academic Affairs, MBAA (hurk0002@umn.edu)

Lane Elmer – Vice-president for Curriculum Development, Net Impact (elme0031@umn.edu)

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PLEASE NOTE:

Full-Time and Part-Time MBA students are allowed to take up to 8 credits of pre-approved courses taken outside of the Carlson School MBA Program but used toward other graduate degree programs within the University of Minnesota. Students wishing to take courses outside of the MBA curriculum must request permission PRIOR to taking the course through the Director of Student Affairs to receive MBA credit for the proposed courses. If approved, the course credits can be used as general elective credits towards the student’s program. The procedure for students to request a non-Carlson School class is as follows:

1) Indicate the course you would like to take (it must be a graduate level course and taken for an A/F grade).

2) Copy the course description and send it to the Director of Student Affairs along with the rationale on why the class would benefit and prepare you for your post Carlson School career.

3) The Director of Student Services meets with the Asst. Dean/Director weekly to review student requests on a case-by-case basis.

If the class is approved, the MBA office will advise the student on how to work with the other University departmental office to register for the course.

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