INQ-120 | Business Ethics in Absentia

Full Title: Business Ethics: In Absentia or In Repair?

Topic Description:

This course examines business ethics from a historical and prospective basis. Students will be challenged to evaluate their own view of business ethics and reflect on how that preconception has changed by the end of the course. We will establish what is meant by ethics in the business community, review some examples of ethics violations and what the business world is doing to address the concerns that those ethics breaches have uncovered. Throughout the course we will also look at examples of companies that are doing things the ethical way, and how they should be emulated. We will analyze case studies, topical readings, films and video clips to formulate our base of understanding, and reflect on that knowledge in written papers and in oral debate.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2009