Measuring sustainable development - PGE

Catalog of Institut Mines-Télécom Business School courses

Code

MGFE ECO 7501

Level

M2

Field

Economie

Language

Anglais/English

ECTS Credits

1

Class hours

18

Total student load

27

Program Manager(s)

Department

  • Management, Marketing et Stratégie

Educational team

Introduction to the module

Sustainable development is the most important global movement of our time. In 2015, the 193 member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These interconnected Goals aim to end poverty and promote economic prosperity, ensure social equity, and protect the environment.

Learning goals/Programme objectives

  • LG1 Being able to extend digital intelligence through its different dimensions
  • LG2 Having the ability to manage uncertainty and complexity with accuracy and rigor
  • LG3 Having the foundations of responsible and sustainable management
  • LG4 Having access to different cross disciplinary management approaches and tools
  • LG5 Being open (minded) to others and to the world and looking for positive societal impact

Learning objectives/Intended learning outcomes

  • 1.1 - Develop digital citizenship and prosperity
  • 2.1 - Identify and analyze in depth problems, causes and impacts
  • 3.2 - Apply discipline knowledge appropriately and effectively
  • 3.4 - Select and employ judiciously appropriate techniques and tools within the discipline
  • 4.2 - Understand and employ cross-disciplinary concepts, knowledge, theories
  • 4.3 - Apply cross-disciplinary management approaches and tools effectively and judiciously
  • 5.1 - Mobilize one's imagination and culture to understand contexts and interpret situations

Rubrics

Understand the value of measuring progress on the SDGs.
Use the SDG Index and Dashboards as a tool for understanding SDG progress in your country, region, or city.
Differentiate between data sources and select the most appropriate source for different types of data.
Identify the steps necessary to construct an SDG Index.

Content : structure and schedule

1. An Introduction to SDG Measurement
2. Constructing an Index, Part I: Methodology and Data
3: Constructing an Index, Part II: Technical Training
4: Regional and City Indices
5. Conclusions and Goals Ahea

Sustainable Development Goals

All

Number of SDG's addressed among the 17

17

Learning delivery

Asynchrone

Pedagogical methods

Lectures
Readings
Activities
Quizzes and final exam

Evaluation and grading system and catch up exams

Individual report 100%
Catch-up nassignment

Module Policies

Professor-Student Communication
● The professor will contact the students through their school email address (IMT-BS/TSP) and the Moodle portal. No communication via personal email addresses will take place. It is the student responsibility to regularly check their IMT-BS/TSP mailbox.
● Students can communicate with the professor by emailing him/her to his institutional address. If necessary, it is possible to meet the professor in his office during office-hours or by appointment.

Students with accommodation needs
If a student has a disability that will prevent from completing the described work or require any kind of accommodation, he may inform the program director (with supporting documents) as soon as possible. Also, students are encouraged to discuss it with the professor.

Class behavior
● Out of courtesy for the professor and classmates, all mobile phones, electronic games or other devices that generate sound should be turned off during class.
● Students should avoid disruptive and disrespectful behavior such as: arriving late, leaving early, careless behavior (e.g. sleeping, reading a non-course material, using vulgar language, over-speaking, eating, drinking, etc.). A warning may be given on the first infraction of these rules. Repeated violators will be penalized and may face expulsion from the class and/or other disciplinary proceedings.
● The tolerated delay is 5 minutes. Attendance will be declared on Moodle during these 5 minutes via a QR code provided by the teacher at each course start.
● Student should arrive on time for exams and other assessments. No one will be allowed to enter the classroom once the first person has finished the exam and left the room. There is absolutely no exception to this rule. No student can continue to take an exam once the time is up. No student may leave the room during an examination unless he / she has finished and handed over all the documents.
● In the case of remote learning, the student must keep his camera on unless instructed otherwise by the professor.

Honor code
IMT-BS is committed to a policy of honesty in the academic community. Conduct that compromises this policy may result in academic and / or disciplinary sanctions. Students must refrain from cheating, lying, plagiarizing and stealing. This includes completing your own original work and giving credit to any other person whose ideas and printed materials (including those from the Internet) are paraphrased or quoted directly. Any student who violates or helps another student violate academic behavior standards will be penalized according to IMT-BS rules.

Textbook Required and Suggested Readings

https://www.oecd.org/greengrowth/41414440.pdf
https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/stats/publications/2013/CES_SD_web.pdf

Keywords

Sustainable Development, Dashboard, Data-Driven Decision-Making

Prerequisites

Basics of statistics