Management and Innovation


Faculty List

Adminstrator
Patrice Lee
Kaneff Building, Room KN2248
905-569-4565
patrice.lee@utoronto.ca

Program Director
Leigh Revers
Kaneff Building, Room KN2256
905-569-4323
leigh.revers@utoronto.ca

 

The Institute for Management & Innovation (IMI) is the centre for trans-disciplinary education focused on innovation and innovation management at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). The Institute’s mission is to develop innovation-focused leaders, from all academic backgrounds, with a strong link to the external community. IMI also serves as a platform for fostering inter- and trans-disciplinary research and scholarship in areas relevant to its associated programs.

As a collaborative institute, IMI provides students with access to professional masters programs in biotechnology, accounting, innovation and sustainability, and undergraduate courses in accounting, finance, marketing and human resource management.

Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability

The Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability offers a greatly expanded opportunity for all UTM undergraduate students to learn about global sustainability, which is not limited to environmental conservation and includes all aspects of human wellbeing covered by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs include poverty, hunger, health, education, gender equality, social equities, clean water, clean energy, decent work, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable consumption, economic growth, climate change, peaceful societies, and environmental conservation.

The main objectives of the Certificate of Completion are: (i) to provide an intellectual and practical understanding of the holistic nature of global sustainability to transform the student’s ability to engage in systems and integrative thinking; (ii) to develop applied and managerial skills to address real-life sustainability issues; and (iii) to enhance the opportunities for summer as well as regular full-time employment after graduation.

The Certificate of Completion will be available to all actively enrolled UTM undergraduate students who have completed 4.0 credits. Completion of the Certificate of Completion in Global Sustainability will require successful completion of 3 required modules and 3 elective modules. Each module will be approximately 10 hours (most will be five 2-hour sessions), and will include a set of workshops, group discussions, analyses of real-life sustainability problems/ issues, and exploration of diverse approaches to potential solutions. Students must participate in all 10 hours to receive credit for the module. Most modules will be offered on evenings or weekends or during special events (such as UTM’s Sustainability Week) to reduce scheduling conflicts. Students can plan their own schedules to complete the six modules over their program length.

Required Global Sustainability Modules

Students must complete all three modules:

  1. Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Global Sustainability: The module will focus on inter- disciplinary perspectives and approaches (including natural science, social science, and humanities approaches) related to global sustainability. The module will also include complementarities and conflicts between the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and their global implications.
  2. Systems Thinking and Global Sustainability: This module will focus on transforming the typical student’s lens from reductionist thinking to systems, integrative, and critical thinking. The module will include the concepts of systems analysis and design, integrative thinking, and critical thinking, and their applications to analyze and design local and global sustainable systems.
  3. Sustainable Consumption: This module will be “about doing more and better with less” and it will examine sustainable consumption from a variety of different perspectives, including the marketing view, the policy maker’s view, the corporation’s view, and the ethical view. Students will evaluate various theories of consumer behaviour, such as social influence, social dilemma, and collective effort. Finally, students will investigate the need for proactive consumer social

Elective Global Sustainability Modules

Students must complete three (3) modules of their choice. Each year, 3-5 elective modules will be offered on rotation. Check Quercus for the complete and up-to-date listing of module offerings.

  1. Sustainability Engagement and Reporting: This module will focus on developing applied skills related to stakeholders’ engagement in sustainability decision making and sustainability reporting at global, national, sub-national, and corporate scales. The module will include frameworks related to stakeholders’ classification, stakeholders’ materiality analysis, and sustainability reporting. The module will include the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Framework, Integrated Reporting, and ESG Reporting.
  2. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories: This module will focus on developing applied skills related to measurement, reporting, and checking greenhouse gas inventories at a global, national, sub-national, corporate, and organizational level. The module will also cover global frameworks, standards and protocols related to GHG inventories.
  3. Waste Management Systems: This module will focus on developing applied skills in designing waste management systems, for different types of waste, and in different contexts such as educational institutions, multi-unit buildings, and government offices.
  4. Global Sustainability Culture: This module will develop the basic foundations of sustainability culture, and will include the role of Aboriginal culture, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), Love and Respect, and Humanistic Leadership in sustainability culture.
  5. Global Sustainability Communication: This module highlights research at the intersection of fields like communication, media studies, journalism, cinema studies, visual studies, and science and technology studies. Sustainability communication draws attention to how media systems represent issues like climate change, sustainability, conservation, pollution, ecosystems, environmental health, food and agriculture, and energy.
     

For details, please visit our website: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/imi/programs

Contact Information:
Diana Aldaz
Events & Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Institute for Management & Innovation
p: 905-302-3191 |e: diana.aldaz@utoronto.ca

Prof. Shashi Kant
Institute for Management & Innovation
P: 905-569-5739 e: shashi.kant@utoronto.ca