Schedule :
Pre-Seminar: 20 May – 5 June 2013 (Grade credit: 10%)
Location: http://sustain.ecoplan.org
Master Class: 6-8 June. (Grade credit: 40%)
Location: ISG, 24, rue Saint-Marc 75002 Paris
Map:
Final paper: (Grade credit: 50%)
Due on or before 11 July.
Course organization
The seminar takes place over three consecutive eight-hour days, opening each morning at 09:00 sharp, with a one hour break for lunch and then to go on to 18:00. The classes will take place at the Institut Supérieur de Gestion, 24, rue Saint-Marc 75002. (See map.)
The seminar is organized in six four-hour sessions. You will find the main topics of each session indicated in the following titles. Detailed agenda for each session will be distributed, discussed and finalized during the course of the first session on Thursday morning, thus giving each student a chance to make their voice heard and help shape the agenda. Sustainable development requires first class communication and team work; so we might as well start here.
Session 1: Thursday morning. 09:00.
KNOW OURSELVES
Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
• Introduction + presentation of rapporteurs for this session
• Tour de table: Who are we? And what do we want from this course
• Class Assignments: Click here for details.
• WorkPad: How it works: Line by line presentation/review of course materials, assignments, approach
• Book/article reviews: Discussion and selection of subjects for book/article reviews (Plus reporting procedures)
• Our Ecological footprints – Calculate and discuss
• Work Plan finalization for sessions 2 – 6. Presentation and discussion
• Term paper strategies: First steps (Can’t start too soon)
• Language, Truth and Logic What about those machine translations in your language?
Session 2: Thursday afternoon. 14:00.
THE TROUBLED WORLD OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
* Guest speaker presentation (Professor Robert Ayres. See bionote and background paper here)
* Session references: http://wp.me/p1zD54-hV and http://wp.me/p1zD54-iR
* Sustainable development long haul: 1776 – 2020
* Sustainable Development Timeline – 2012 (Presentations and discussion)
* Issues: World demographics, Zetabytes, Open Systems
* Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
Session 3: Friday morning. 09:00.
BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PARTNERS OR FOES
* Test presentations of work plans for final reports (5 min.)
* Session details and reading to follow
* Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
Session 4: Friday afternoon. 14:00.
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY
* (Session details to follow)
* Guest speaker presentation
* Quick pre-presentations of chosen report topics (5 min.s)
* Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
Session 5: Saturday morning. 09:00
PRESENTATIONS AND BRAINSTORMING FOR FINAL TERM PAPERS
* Presentations of final paper work plans and class discussions
* Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
Session 6: Saturday afternoon. 14:00.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
* Session details to follow
* Guest speaker presentation
* Rapporteurs: (See http://wp.me/p1zD54-lv)
Program details to be confirmed, along with full information on the guest speakers and their presentations.
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