The Cooperative and Community Development course is designed to provide students with the specific knowledge and skills they will need to be able to participate meaningfully and effectively at leadership level in the decision-making, management and entrepreneurial processes of cooperatives and social enterprises. The students will learn how to develop the capacity in both communities and individuals to aid in their economic, social and sustainable development. This course provides a foundation for Capstone Projects focused on the community and its development both locally and internationally.

BSUS 7401 is a project based capstone course. As a capstone experience, the course is meant to serve an integrative role, bringing together all the concepts from the course work in the first term of the program. The course will consist of a project that will focus upon Sustainable Leadership within organizationsIn this course students will form teams based upon their interests and begin developing a Sustainable Implementation Plan for an organization. All of the other courses in the first term are designed with the goal of feeding the Capstone Course. That is, all of the other courses will provide the knowledge, skills and abilities for students to successfully meet the requirements of BSUS 7401. Thus, this course is designed to explore the interfaces between sustainability, leadership and change management, operations management, marketing management, and environmental law within the context of entrepreneurial ventures, innovative for profit corporations, and non-profit ventures. The focus of this course is on gaining new venture/implementation experience. Students will learn how to identify a good business or change management opportunity by evaluating the needs in the community, environmental forces creating the opportunity, and the profit potential of the business opportunity. The central focus of the course will be on the Capstone Project, where students not only have to come up with an innovative concept or idea, but also have to meet the test of implementation.

This course will discuss accounting and finance concepts focused on sustainable business practices. Businesses are realigning and in some cases, reinventing their organizations toward more sustainable business models. Accounting and Finance reporting techniques and analytical methods used by entities will be examined that enable organizations to reduce their firm’s negative environmental and social impacts while, in many cases, increasing assurance, profits, returns, and competitive advantage.

This interdisciplinary course provides an in-depth study of a topic in liberal studies, to develop students' understanding of a specific cultural, literary, artistic, technological, or scientific issue of concern to society, including consideration of both continuity and change. LIBS 7028 promotes cultural and civic literacy by exploring important social and cultural issues, in order to enhance the ability of students to contribute positively to workplaces and communities. Topics vary from term to term and may include subjects such as: technology and values; environmental ethics; utopian literature; the city - design and history; women in science and technology. Students may only take Selected Topics twice for credit towards a IZUNA degree program. Prerequisite: IZUNA ENGL 1177, or 6 credits IZUNA Communication at 1100-level or above, or 3 credits of a university/college first-year social science or humanities course.

The Sustainable Organizational Change Management and Leadership course will focus on preparing students to be a "sustainability champion", i.e. a person who is leading a change effort in an organization towards sustainability. The course will focus on practical tools and concepts that are useful from this perspective. In addition, students will have an opportunity to add to their personal facilitation tool box so they have the skills necessary to engage their peers in a sustainability change process. The course will feature interactive exercises and classes will be developed around four steps to create an engaging learning environment: anchoring student experience in the issue at hand, adding a practical concept to help address the issue, applying the concept in practice, and reflecting on real-world applicability once students are away from the class. The course will also include guest lecturers who are currently championing sustainability efforts to share lessons learned and advise students on their course work and future career path. This course is complemented by a keystone project in the program where students will have an opportunity to apply concepts and lessons learned from this course.

This interdisciplinary course provides an in-depth study of a topic in sustainable business leadership. BSUS 7500 is designed to expose students to the successes occurring in the field of sustainable business leadership. Topics vary from term to term and may include subjects such as successful models and interventions in the application of sustainable business leadership to: transportation, local government, energy management, agriculture and conservation, water, waste and pollution, and consumer behaviour.

BSUS 7402 is a project based capstone course that extends the project begun in BSUS 7401. As a capstone experience, the course is meant to serve an integrative role, bringing together all the components of course work in the second term of the program and the business/sustainability plan students began in the first term. The course will focus upon Sustainable Leadership within organizations In this course students will continue in their teams formed in the first term and continue to develop a Sustainable Implementation Plan for an organization. All of the other courses in the second term are designed with the goal of feeding the Capstone Course. That is, all of the other course will provide the knowledge, skills and abilities for students to successfully meet the requirements of BSUS 7402. This course is designed to explore the interfaces between climate change and GHG management, industrial ecology, ecological economics, entrepreneurship and sustainable accounting and finance within the context of entrepreneurial ventures, innovative for profit corporations, and non-profit ventures. The focus of this course is on gaining new venture/implementation experience. Students will learn how to implement a good business or change management opportunity by evaluating the needs in the community, environmental forces creating the opportunity, and the profit potential of the business opportunity. The central focus of the course will be on the Capstone Project, where you implement an innovative concept or idea.

This course introduces students to the field of values based entrepreneurship and the development of worker cooperatives. Best practices of starting and growing successful values-driven ventures and workers cooperatives is explored. Values based business (works cooperatives being a subset of values driven ventures) is rapidly gaining attention around the world from entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, foundations, and consulting firms. This course is organized around the following interconnected ideas and objectives, ENTERPRISES- To introduce students to the broad spectrum of emerging global cooperative, social (including environmental and socially responsible) ventures through presentations by guest practitioners; ENTREPRENEURSHIP- To provide a variety of frameworks (social entrepreneurship, cooperative development, biomimicry etc.) for the design of values based ventures and the challenges unique to starting and growing them; MARKETS - To introduce students to the emerging capital market for values based ventures and cooperatives and the possible trade-offs in environmental, social and financial return expectations from different capital sources, including venture firms, and foundations; MANAGEMENT - To introduce students to the challenging and paradoxical management decisions inherent in growing managing to cooperative and multiple bottom line objectives; METRICS - To orient students in applying and critiquing models for assessing, measuring and reporting on cooperative, environmental, social and community impact.

This course will offer a framework for education in the field of ecological economics, by providing a theoretical grounding in economics from first principles, therein exploring the fundamental principles of efficiency in the distribution of resources in society. Virtually all decision-making in the socio-environmental domain is affected by these principles. The course covers not only conventional (neo-classical) economics but also criticisms of this dominant paradigm. This course provides a conceptual understanding of economics and uses case studies to discuss applications in practice, by examining the principles of economics and how they might be applied to environmental and resource use issues.

Through seminars, online, class, individual and group discussions, students will examine cooperative marketing topics ranging from interacting with members rather than customers, strategic analysis, upstream/downstream cooperative marketing, fund raising and ethics, to community preventive marketing, the social marketing mix, branding and co-creation. Exposure to cooperative marketing, community engagement frameworks and best practices provides students with the structure to understand and propose community capacity-building endeavours focused upon community growth and well-being.

This course deals with current issues in sustainable operations management. These issues may range from environmental issues such as waste minimisation, greenhouse gasses, landfill, recycling, reverse logistics and globalisation of operations. Students will look at these issues from the perspectives of both business and the environment. The course will include discussions on Environmental Policy as related to businesses, and students will have the opportunity to conduct an environmental audit.