2 credits
Fall 2025 LectureThis course is designed to move past a surface-level understanding that we need to act ethically in the business environment to wrestling with what does that look like and what frameworks can help us do just that. I also firmly believe that we have to prethink our decisions before we are confronted with opportunities to compromise ethically. We will incorporate current headlines to our evaluation of major ethical lapses of the past.
Learning Outcomes1Describe, list, differentiate, and utilize a set of frameworks/theoretical approaches to ethics and apply those approaches to concrete problems/cases.
2Assemble the ethical concepts through effectively writing and speaking about business ethics by paraphrasing and describing the concepts in your own words.
3Respond to questions in online discussions to develop and integrate business ethics in real-world cases.
4Develop your ability to effectively write and speak about business ethics by paraphrasing and describing the concepts in your own words.
5Integrate business stakeholder analysis through real-world cases to increase your awareness of the ethical responsibilities that exist between a business and its stakeholders.
6Use business ethics and apply to real-world cases by thinking critically about our own responsibilities as economic agents (as workers, managers and consumers) and as citizens.
7Summarize and use a set of frameworks/theoretical approaches to ethics and apply those approaches to concrete problems/cases.
8Summarize Crisis Communications and integrate ethics into related case studies.