Spring 2027

Sustainability, Environmental and Social Risk Management

Assessment, control, financing, and management of risks from environmental, worker, and community impacts, including liability, regulations, and competitors' actions.

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Summary

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Past student reviews · James Swanke

The workload consisted of easy projects and grading, though students noted the inclusion of two large group projects.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the manner and extent to which organizations and individuals contribute to degradation of the world’s ecosystems, including a historical perspective

  • Recognize legal obligations of organizations and individuals in protecting the environment and conducting business as it relates to workers, customers, and the community at large

  • Compare methods to identify, evaluate, and manage risks associated with environmental and social justice issues

  • Evaluate organizations’ sustainability risk management strategies

  • Design effective sustainability risk management strategies

  • Demonstrate that investment in sustainability risk management is value enhancing (that is, make the business case for it)

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Junior standing

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RMI 650

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JAMES SWANKE is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · James Swanke

Students described Prof. Swanke as passionate and caring, noting that the course provided a basic overview of sustainability with a supportive learning environment.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.61 GPA, 83.8% A/AB (n=37 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.56 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.61 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · James Swanke

The workload consisted of easy projects and grading, though students noted the inclusion of two large group projects.

Past student reviews · James Swanke

One student found the course content outdated and criticized the instructor for lacking deep knowledge of sustainability, describing the material as a very basic overview.

Topics

  • Environmental, worker, and community risks
  • Liability, litigation, boycotts, regulations, and competitive actions
  • Sustainability risk management strategies

Skills

  • Identify, evaluate, and manage risks associated with environmental and social justice issues
  • Design effective sustainability risk management strategies
  • Make the business case for investment in sustainability risk management

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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