ADMG 285 - Sustainable Decision-Making

• Define sustainability and demonstrate knowledge of how natural resources, economic development, waste management, and socio-politics interrelate and allow us to live in balance with our environment.
• Define life cycle assessment and explain how our decisions and actions impact sustainability issues at the individual, organizational, community and international societal levels. 
• Analyze and critique a sustainability argument by identifying underlying assumptions and explaining how sustainability relates to our lives, values and the triple bottom line in both the short and long term.
• Use life cycle cost analysis and other sustainability assessment tools to apply and demonstrate proficiency and decision making.  Use available information to create sustainable solutions for desired future organizational, economic and environmental conditions.
• Identify and synthesize high quality sources on the topic of sustainability and use them to effectively support an argument and its rhetorical effectiveness.
• Take a position on a sustainability issue from different audience perspectives and support a line of reasoning using a variety of rhetorical appeals.
• Craft prose and documents that describe the interrelationships between sustainability, profits and corporate responsibility and conforms to academic conventions and expectations regarding clarity, coherence and unity.
• Cite and document sources precisely and effectively according to the guidelines of a specific style manual.  Understand and describe the interrelationships between style and meaning in the sustainability field and make adjustments to enhance meaning for the intended audience.