ADMG 285 - Sustainable Decision-Making

• Define sustainability and demonstrate knowledge of how natural resources, economic development, waste management, and socio-politics interrelate.
• 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.
• Understand how life cycle cost analysis and other sustainability assessment tools are used in decision making.
• 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 conform to academic conventions 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,