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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
50849	Lecture-Discussion	AUS	ARRANGED	n.a.	Location Pending	Luckman, E	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Global Classroom course. Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: The Sustainability Puzzle Section Info: This section is an approved elective for Marketing and Management majors. This program focuses on current and future challenges impacting global businesses, such as climate change, population dynamics, urbanization, and inequality. Prior to departure, students will read "The Sustainability Puzzle" and explore why sustainable transformation requires systems thinking. While in Austria from May 20-30, 2025, students will participate in company visits, lectures, and a case study to explore how businesses can create future-proof solutions using system-thinking, and can learn to navigate trade-offs and understand factors that drive innovation.
53011	Lecture-Discussion	BPI	3:30PM -4:50PM	TR	2001 Business Instructional Fac	Fulton, B White, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Business, Power & Inequality Section Info: This section is an approved elective for SIE, OM, SCM, Management and Marketing majors as well as Business Minors. An introduction to the interconnectedness between American businesses and systemic oppressions experienced by marginalized communities. It explores how various industries, policies, and practices throughout history have impacted disparities in wealth, healthcare, housing, access to goods and services, and food security. Students will analyze the multifaceted ways in which business decisions, economic structures, and societal norms perpetuate and exacerbate these inequities. Emphasis will be on the ways in which slavery, racism, and indigenous policies are foundational to persistent inequality in the United States. Students will propose possible reforms and solutions to closing the gaps of inequity in American society. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior class standing.
45166	Lecture-Discussion	BZL	4:00PM -6:50PM	W	ARR Wohlers Hall	Winter, G	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/17/25-05/07/25 Degree Notes: Global Classroom course. Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Eval Energy: Brazil Challenge Section Info: This course will meet in Wohlers Hall 343L. Evaluating Energy Sources of the Future Through a Professional Responsibility Lens: A Brazilian Energy Transition Challenge (Global Classroom/Study Abroad). Students with sophomore, junior, or senior standing in Gies, ACES, Grainger, and LAS with a minimum 3.0 GPA are welcome to apply. Admittance to the course is by application through Study Abroad with instructor approval; apply by December 1. This section is an approved elective for Management majors. Due to the course’s unique structure, enrollment will be limited to 20. Students should check with Gies Study Abroad for pricing and possible scholarships. This Global Classroom/Study Abroad offering will challenge students to think about how companies can develop a broad plan to transition a country’s energy mix and infrastructure to support a lower carbon future in a professionally responsibly manner that balances competing stakeholder interests. The course will include a blend of classroom learning, field trips to area fossil fuel as well as clean energy sites, and guest lectures from business leaders and professors with relevant expertise. Site visits in the Midwest are optional and may be offered/arranged outside of class periods; possibilities include wind and solar farms, farm fields specializing in biofuel crops, hydrogen fuel powered vehicle fleets, and energy company offices operations. Though Brazil is the setting for the case, the learnings from the course can be applied across the globe. We’ll use a decision-making framework that considers the ethical, economic, and professional responsibility challenges inherent in the development and implementation of an effective energy transition plan in a developing economy. Teams will consider the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and use human-centered design principles to develop their proposal. Throughout the semester, the Illinois learners enrolled in this course will work in teams that will include students from Brazilian universities. The course will feature in-person as well as virtual learning formats to facilitate teamwork. During the May travel component of the course, May 19-30, 2025, students will meet their Brazilian counterparts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visit nuclear and ethanol facilities, and learn from ethics experts and energy company managers. The course will culminate with team presentations in Rio addressing team solutions to the case problem to a panel that includes energy company managers, faculty, and local leaders who will evaluate the professional responsibility, practicality, economic viability, and effectiveness of the energy transition plans. Gies Study Abroad estimates the cost for the course at $3500; scholarships may be available through the study abroad office in your college. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior class standing.
53414	Lecture-Discussion	EA	5:00PM -5:50PM	M	2001 Business Instructional Fac	Warnick, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Special Approval: Instructor Approval Required Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Illinois Bus Ethics Academy Section Info: Students will learn the fundamentals of ethical theory, corporate social responsibility, case competition formats, presentation skills and case analysis. In addition to weekly class meetings, students are expected to compete in at least one of several external case competitions throughout the semester. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.
45015	Lecture-Discussion	SMM	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	3009 Business Instructional Fac	Wolters, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Social Media Marketing Section Info: This section is an approved elective for Marketing majors. This course will open to all Business Administration majors on Monday, November 18, 2024 at approximately 10:00 a.m. This course will open to all other Gies majors on Monday, November 25, 2024 at approximately 10:00 a.m. The course will focus on the ever growing area of social media marketing. Topics of the course will range from omni-channel marketing, to digital maturity of firms, to social media plan development, to social media segmentation, targeting, and positioning. The course will be giving students a hands-on approach to social media marketing with social media analytics, content creation, and interactive discussion. Restriction(s): Restricted to Accountancy or Finance or Marketing or Information Sys & Info Tech or Supply Chain Management or Business Process Management or Management or Information Systems or Operations Management or STR BUS DEV & Entrepreneurship or Strategy, Innovation & Entrep major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.
31032	Lecture-Discussion	SUS	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	166 Wohlers Hall	Baddam, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Sustainable Op & Supply Chains Section Info: This is an approved elective for SCM and OM majors. Sustainability has been at the center of business conversations in the last decade emerging as a key component in competitive strategy owing to consumer interest and government regulations. This course aims to offer students an understanding of sustainability within operations and supply chains considering both environmental and social dimensions. This course takes a comprehensive approach covering topics ranging from sustainability as a strategic component, sourcing, product design, operations, and closing the loop. Restriction(s): Restricted to Gies College of Business. Not intended for Nondegree major(s) or minor(s). Restricted to students with Junior or Senior class standing.