August 6, 2009

BUS 489 Management Practices for Sustainability

This elective course will first be taught in the Spring of 2010 and annually thereafter with an estimated enrollment of 25 students.  It will be taught at either the Burnaby or Surrey Campus.  If taught at Burnaby, no additional resources are required.  Details for the Surrey campus are as follows:

Monographs
The following title will need to be purchased for the Surrey Library:

Dunphy, Dexter C.  Organizational change for corporate sustainability:  a guide for leaders and change agents of the future (Understanding organizational change)  Routledge. 978041539300 2nd. ed.  2007 $66

Additionally, topics for this course are currently outside the collecting scope of the SFU Surrey Library.  Additional titles will need to be purchased in subject areas such as environmental ethics, sustainable development, environmental management practices, industrial ecology, and green marketing.

10 books/year at an average cost of $90/book = $900/year.

Journals and Bibliographic Tools

Journal holdings and databases in this area are adequate and available electronically at all campuses.

Total for this course: 
$66 one time outlay plus $900 / year

BUS 467 Social Perspectives on Information Systems

This elective course will first be taught in the Spring of 2010 and annually thereafter with an estimated enrollment of 25 students.  It will be taught at either the Burnaby or Surrey Campus.  No additional resources are required to support this course at either campus.

Total Costs
One-time costs: $66
Ongoing costs: $900

These costs will be part of the library's request for funding for the 09/10 year. We will await confirmation from Joanne Curry via Sylvia Roberts, Acting Campus Librarian for Surrey. There are no costs to the Faculty of Business Administration.