MASL 507 Sustainability Leadership & Ethics
In this course, students will gain an understanding of the methods and orientation of Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) and implications for the natural environment including the origins and key concepts of environmental ethics. Topics include the controller and therapist leadership, Messiah and eco-leadership discourses, shared biosphere under stress leading to a universal, normative conception of leadership, ethics of sustainability, sustainable development, biodiversity, the precautionary principle, preservationist, and ecological restoration. Students will develop their own philosophy of sustainable leadership addressing the ethical dimensions of concern for nature, future generations of humans, and other living beings.