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Options Solutions Program Feature: Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership

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Looking for a new undergraduate program to put on your radar? Our Educational Consultants are here to help! In addition to exploring popular, established programs, our experts are also familiar with newly introduced programs.

Animal Ethics and Sustainability Leadership (AESL)↗ – Huron University (London, Ontario)

Our Options consultants got first-hand experience learning about this exciting new program from its coordinator Dr. Kendra Coulter. An alum of Huron, Dr. Coulter has returned to her alma mater to create her dream program, one which she wishes she had the opportunity to complete as an undergraduate.

This is a “first of its kind” multi-disciplinary program that combines animal protection with environmental protection and trains students to be the managers and leaders who run businesses, organizations, or work for governments to protect our earth’s precious living resources. 

Here are just some of the topics students in this program can study:

  • How animals are and could be protected through law and policy
  • Sustainable and ethical business practices and strategies
  • Ethical debates about our responsibilities to other species
  • The relationships between nature and technology
  • Just transitions and climate action plans for organizations and communities
  • Other ecological and multispecies topics that reflect student’s specific interests and goals.

This BA degree combines courses from Management and Organizational Studies, the Social Sciences, and the Arts to provide both a depth and breadth of knowledge, as well as the ability to tailor the degree to a student’s individual interests and goals.

All students are required to complete courses in Animal Welfare and Sustainability Leadership, Nature and Technology, Animals in Law and Policy, and Animal Ethics. Among first-year courses in the program, students can study an Introduction to Business, Environment and Sustainability, and/or The Pursuit of Happiness.

The major is brand new and currently open to students at Huron, King’s, and Western Universities. If you value a career related to animals, the environment, and ethical business leadership practices, this is definitely a program to put on your radar.   .

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