MAVE3600 Prosess and Piping Design Course description

This course entails considerable self-reflection and guided self-study and is interdisciplinary in nature. This course provides a robust understanding of how sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and business ethics traverse corporate financial strategies. This course is delivered in four modules. Each module comprises of three components: 1. a lecture to present the course content; 2. a seminar to provide a holistic overview of the developments in corporate arena and their implications for sustainable finance; 3. a workshop for hands-on experience with sustainability finance and sustainability report.

The course is completed with physical attendance on campus. The students are required to work in groups of 3 (+/-1) to develop their social skills and enable them to work successfully and fairly in a team within the context of sustainability finance. This course uses group dynamics and Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) for lifelong learning wherein the students are encouraged to reflect upon environmental, social, governance, and ethical implications of their financial decisions embracing stakeholders’ expectations to enhance corporate economic as well as sustainability performance.

The course assumes that the students are familiar with basic concepts of corporate finance and investment.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

• what sustainability means for a company, a society, and the planet.
• the key elements of ESG metrics and sustainability report, and how a company engages with stakeholders to communicate corporate endeavors of creating and sustaining shared value.
• sustainability related risks, opportunities and other externalities found in corporate ecosystem.
• evolving corporate financial ethics standards and practices.

Skills

The student can

• explain, apply, and evaluate current methods of sustainability finance.
• use the ESG metrics and global sustainability and ethical standards in preparing sustainability report.
• analyze and assess a company’s sustainability strategy against the key elements of global standards for corporate sustainability reporting.
• integrate corporate sustainability metrics, sustainability related risks & opportunities, ethical standards, and other externalities into sustainable finance strategies.

General competence

The student

• is aware of the developments in corporate sustainability (ESG) drive and fully conversant with the scope of global standards for corporate sustainability reporting sources.
• can rationalize and contextualize corporate financial decisions to enhance firm value by embracing stakeholders’ expectations about sustainability and business ethics.
• can exchange views on economic, ethical, social, and environmental implications of corporate financial decision making.

The following aids are permitted:

1. The obligatory assignment:

All aids are permitted, as long as the student complies with the rules for source referencing.

2. The supervised exam:

• Textbook - Principles of Sustainable Finance by Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade
• One dictionary: Native language-English/English-native language or English/English
• One notebook containing hand-written and/or printed notes

Please note that it is not allowed to bring any loose papers and post it slips in either the textbook or the notebook.

Grade scale A - F

Det benyttes intern og ekstern sensor til sensurering av besvarelsene.

Et uttrekk på minst 25% av besvarelsene sensureres av to sensorer. Karakterene på disse samsensurerte besvarelsene skal danne grunnlag for å fastsette nivå på resten av besvarelsene.

The following aids are permitted:

1. The obligatory assignment:

All aids are permitted, as long as the student complies with the rules for source referencing.

2. The supervised exam:

• Textbook - Principles of Sustainable Finance by Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade
• One dictionary: Native language-English/English-native language or English/English
• One notebook containing hand-written and/or printed notes

Please note that it is not allowed to bring any loose papers and post it slips in either the textbook or the notebook.

The course assumes that the students are familiar with basic concepts of corporate finance and investment.

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Muhammad Azeem Qureshi