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Harvard Extension School Offers E-Learning Course on Environmental Management
BOSTON, Mass. -- The Harvard University Extension School is offering a popular course on strategies for environmental management via distance learning.
The seventh edition of the course, "Strategies for Environmental Management: Path to Sustainable Development," begins on January 26 and registration is already under way for the class that is taught by Harvard adjunct professor Robert B. Pojasek. Pojasek is an internationally recognized authority on business sustainability and process improvement. He is also a guest columnist for GreenBiz.
The course, presented in the case method style, examines local sustainability at the nexus of local business, local government and a community's residents. The approach as well as the focus make the course one of the few of its kind, Pojasek said.
Online availability also contributes to a unique course dynamic. Ninety people in 14 countries particpated in the class last year.
This year students will work in cohort groups to tackle coursework and write case outcomes based on content that is posted on the class Web site using a WIKI tool. The class meets Monday evenings for discussion sessions that are posted as streaming video.
More information about the course is available here.
Information about Harvard University Extension School is available here.
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Tuition and Supplemental Information
The Harvard University Extension School lists the course tuition as follows: Noncredit and undergraduate credit $800, graduate credit $1,725.
The comprehensive course description is available here.
The syllabus is available here.
The catalogue listing for the course, including tuition rates, is available here.
More information about registration is available here.
Bob Pojasek notes that students interested in obtaining a certificate, or entering the master's degree program at a later date, need to take the course for graduate credit. The main difference in graduate and undergraduate coursework, Pojasek says, is that graduate students must write a paper on the use of the skills developed in the class on a case of their choice. The case may involve their work, community or home.
Noncredit students can participate in the cohort discussions and have full access to the site, but they receive no feedback on their work during the course. Because the price for noncredit tuition is the same as the undergraduate price, students should strongly consider taking the course for undergraduate credit, Pojasek says.
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