Doctor of Management - Environmental and Social Sustainability Concentration
Effective May 19, 2020, this program is no longer available for future enrollments.
Effective February 2019, this program is no longer available for future enrollments at the Denver South campus.
The Doctor of Management with a concentration in Environmental Social Sustainability is a 100-credit hour terminal degree in management. The program includes 40 credit hours of core management courses, 20 credit hours in environmental social sustainability concentration courses, 4 credit hours of symposium-related courses, and 36 credit hours of doctoral research. The research element will culminate in a dissertation.
The Doctor of Management is a terminal degree for management professionals. The program helps students prepare to think and act strategically and provides the opportunity to enhance their abilities to make positive contributions in their chosen area of management expertise. The concentration in Environmental Social Sustainability is for management professionals wanting to pursue additional knowledge in sustainability and ‘green initiatives’ in an appropriate context, develop knowledge through research of literature on the various regulatory and political topics related to ESS. Students will have the opportunity to apply current topic knowledge to the solution of a practical ecological problem and demonstrate increasing mastery of a specialty area within ESS. This concentration is heavily focused on the challenges ESS leaders face in dealing with social sustainability of environmental issues.
This program does not lead to additional licensure or certification. As such, CTU has made no determination regarding prerequisites for licensure or certification in any state or jurisdiction.
Degree Requirements
Courses: Core
| MGMT802 | Management Theory | 4 |
| MGMT808 | Management and Ethics | 4 |
| MGMT818 | Leadership Theory and Development | 4 |
| MGMT822 | Application of Action Research | 4 |
| MGMT824 | Strategic Thinking and Organizational Alignment | 4 |
| MGMT828 | Practice and Theory of Consulting and Intervention | 4 |
| MGMT832 | Organization Innovation and Scenario Thinking | 4 |
| RES804 | Principles of Research Methods and Design | 4 |
| RES812 | Qualitative Research Methods | 4 |
| RES814 | Quantitative Research Methods | 4 |
| RES860 | Doctoral Research I: Principles of Research and Writing | 4 |
| RES861 | Doctoral Research II: Annotated Bibliography | 4 |
| RES862 | Dissertation Research Process | 4 |
| RES863 | Doctoral Research III: Dissertation Literature Review | 4 |
| RES864 | Doctoral Research IV: Dissertation Methods | 4 |
| RES865 | Doctoral Research V: Dissertation Introduction | 4 |
| RES866 | Doctoral Research VI: Dissertation Findings | 4 |
| RES867 | Doctoral Research VII: Dissertation Discussion and Conclusion | 4 |
| RES868 | Doctoral Research VIII: Dissertation Conclusion | 4 |
| SYMP801 | Doctoral Symposium I | 2 |
| SYMP802 | Doctoral Symposium II | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 80 |
Courses: Concentration
| ESS870 | System Thinking and Transformative Social Systems in Sustainability | 4 |
| ESS872 | Organizational Performance: Economic, Ethical, Technological, Social Justice, and the Environment | 4 |
| ESS874 | Trans-Organizational Policy and Governance Related to Sustainability | 4 |
| ESS876 | Current Topics in Environmental and Social Sustainability | 4 |
| MGMT878 | Advanced Career Strategies for the Scholar-Practitioner | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 20 |
Total Credit Hours: 100
Program Areas of Focus
The program emphasizes three areas of focus: Research and Writing; Leadership and Change Management; and the specific concentration discipline.
Graduation Requirements
In addition to the successful completion of 100 credit hours with an acceptable GPA, students must also satisfactorily complete their research proposal and final dissertation. The research proposal must be approved by the student’s Research Supervisor and University Reviewer. The dissertation, which must be approved by the student’s dissertation committee, is an extensive document that includes the research study. In addition, graduation requires presentation of the final dissertation.The dissertation documents the student’s research processes and presents the findings and conclusions of that research, and suggests future research. The dissertation is divided into two major segments: the proposal and the full dissertation. The proposal will be developed by the student, and then submitted by the mentor to the University Review Board. The research will then be conducted and written up, resulting in the full dissertation, which is then reviewed by a committee. These processes are conducted under the supervision of CTU faculty.
Symposium
Doctoral programs at Colorado Technical University require a residential symposium. Additional information about CTU's doctoral symposium can be located in the Doctoral Symposium section of this catalog.