Managing for Sustainability Major (B.Com.)

72 credits · Desautels Faculty of Management · 2026-2027 catalogue

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Required Courses (48 credits)

Management Core

  • MGCR 211 Introduction to Financial Accounting (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 222 Introduction to Organizational Behaviour (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 233 Data Programming for Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 250 Expressive Analysis for Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 271 Business Statistics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 293 Managerial Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 294 The Firm in the Macroeconomy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 331 Information Technology Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 341 Introduction to Finance (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 352 Principles of Marketing (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 372 Operations Management (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 423 Strategic Management (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MGCR 460 Social Context of Business (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Major

  • MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • MSUS 402 Systems Thinking and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

Complementary Courses (24 credits)

Suggested Course List (0–24 credits)

The Suggested is divided into two thematic categories: Social Sciences and Policy; and Natural Sciences and Technology. Most courses listed at the 300 level and higher have prerequisites. You are urged to prepare your program of study with this in mind. Some courses may be subject to other regulations. This list is not exhaustive. You are encouraged to examine the course lists of the various programs in Environment for other courses that might interest you. Courses not on the Suggested may be included with the permission of the Program Adviser. Location Note: When planning your schedule and registering for courses, you should verify where each course is offered because courses for this program are taught at both McGill's Downtown campus and at the Macdonald campus in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Social Sciences and Policy (0–24 credits)

  • AGEC 231 Economic Systems of Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGEC 333 Resource Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 205 An Introduction to Political Economy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ECON 225 Economics of the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 347 Economics of Climate Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ECON 405 Natural Resource Economics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVB 437 Assessing Environmental Impact (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 300 Human Ecology in Geography (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 301 Geography of Nunavut (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 221 Environment and Health (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 230 Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 237 Contemporary Moral Issues (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • PHIL 334 Ethical Theory (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PHIL 343 Biomedical Ethics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PHIL 348 Philosophy of Law 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 212 Introduction to Comparative Politics – Europe/North America (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • POLI 227 Introduction to Comparative Politics - Global South (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PSYC 215 Social Psychology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • RELG 270 Religious Ethics and the Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 222 Urban Sociology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOCI 235 Technology and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • SOCI 386 Contemporary Social Movements (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • URBP 201 Planning the 21st Century City (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 506 Environmental Policy and Planning (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • URBP 530 Urban Infrastructure and Services in International Context (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • URBP 551 Urban Design and Planning (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027

Natural Sciences and Technology (0–24 credits)

  • AGRI 340 Principles of Ecological Agriculture (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ANSC 326 Fundamentals of Population Genetics (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ATOC 215 Oceans, Weather and Climate (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 240 Monteregian Flora (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • BIOL 305 Animal Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 308 Ecological Dynamics (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 310 Biodiversity and Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 342 Global Change Biology of Aquatic Ecosystems (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BIOL 418 Freshwater Invertebrate Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 432 Limnology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BIOL 436 Evolution and Society (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • BIOL 465 Conservation Biology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 217 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BREE 322 Management of Organic Residue (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BREE 518 Ecological Engineering (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CHEM 212 Introductory Organic Chemistry 1 (4 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall
  • CHEM 281 Inorganic Chemistry 1 (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CIVE 225 Environmental Engineering (4 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • CIVE 323 Hydrology and Water Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • CIVE 550 Water Resources Management (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ENVB 210 The Biophysical Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 301 Meteorology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 305 Population and Community Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVB 410 Ecosystem Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 415 Ecosystem Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVB 529 GIS for Natural Resource Management (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • EPSC 201 Understanding Planet Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Winter
  • EPSC 233 Earth and Life Through Time (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • EPSC 549 Hydrogeology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ESYS 301 Earth System Modelling (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 200 Geographical Perspectives: World Environmental Problems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • GEOG 201 Introductory Geo-Information Science (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 203 Environmental Systems (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 205 Global Change: Past, Present and Future (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 272 Earth's Changing Surface (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 305 Soils and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 308 Remote Sensing for Earth Observation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 321 Climatic Environments (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • GEOG 322 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • GEOG 372 Running Water Environments (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • LSCI 230 Introductory Microbiology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MICR 331 Microbial Ecology (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MIME 320 Extraction of Energy Resources (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MIMM 211 Introductory Microbiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MIMM 323 Microbial Physiology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 333 Pollution and Bioremediation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • NRSC 515 Water and Health (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • PARA 410 Environment and Infection (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 304 Biology of Fungi (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • PLNT 305 Plant Pathology (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 358 Flowering Plant Diversity (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • PLNT 460 Plant Ecology (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • SOIL 300 Geosystems (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • WILD 421 Wildlife Conservation (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3-9 credits from the following: (3–9 credits)

3-9 credits from the following:

  • ACCT 401 Sustainability and Environmental Accounting (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • FINE 465 Sustainable Finance (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • INSY 455 Technology and Innovation for Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MGSC 488 Sustainability and Operations (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MRKT 351 Marketing and Society (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

3-9 credits from the following: (3–9 credits)

3-9 credits from the following:

  • BUSA 432D1 Topics in Managing for Impact (1.5 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BUSA 432D2 Topics in Managing for Impact (1.5 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • BUSA 451D1 Creating Impact Through Research (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • BUSA 451D2 Creating Impact Through Research (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 430 Practicum in Not for Profit Consulting (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MGSC 483 Analytics-Based Community Project (3 credits) · Offered: Summer
  • MSUS 400 Independent Studies in Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • MSUS 401 Sustainability Consulting (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MSUS 497 Internship in Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • RETL 410 Sustainable Retail and Entrepreneurship (3 credits) · Offered: Fall

0-9 credits from the following: (0–9 credits)

0-9 credits from the following:

  • INDR 294 Introduction to Labour-Management Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • INDR 492 Globalization and Labour Policy (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • MGPO 365 Business-Government Relations (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MGPO 435 The Origins of Capitalism (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 450 Ethics in Management (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • MGPO 469 Managing Globalization (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • MSUS 434 Topics in Sustainability 1 (3 credits) · Not scheduled for 2026–2027
  • ORGB 321 Leadership (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ORGB 325 Negotiations and Conflict Resolution (3 credits) · Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter
  • ORGB 421 Managing Organizational Change (3 credits) · Offered: Winter

6-12 credits from the following: (6–12 credits)

6-12 credits from the following:

  • ENVR 200 The Global Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 201 Society, Environment and Sustainability (3 credits) · Offered: Fall
  • ENVR 202 The Evolving Earth (3 credits) · Offered: Winter
  • ENVR 203 Knowledge, Ethics and Environment (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter
  • ENVR 400 Environmental Thought (3 credits) · Offered: Fall, Winter

Remaining credits

Note: ENVR courses have limited enrolment. 3 credits of environmentally related courses. A list of Suggested Courses is provided below.

Related programs

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