BUAD394
Business Ethics
Status
Active
Subject code
BUAD
Course Number
394
Department(s)
Description
Identify ethical issues encountered in business settings and examine specific moral questions that arise vis-à -vis a firm’s relation to society and to its employees. Current cases to illustrate the practical importance of reflection on these questions, and enable explicit identification, critical evaluattion, and application to various frameworks for attributing moral responsibility and making ethical decisions. Cases may be drawn from marketing (manipulation of desire in the market, deceptive advertising), management (sweatshops, discrimination in hiring, privacy), finance (insider trading, corruption), accounting (conflicts of interest, fraud), or economics (asymmetric information, moral hazard). The following courses may count as substituted courses: BUAD 392: Ethical, Social, and Legal Responsibilities of Business, ECON 233: Ethics and Economics, and LDST 450: Leadership Ethics.
Min
0.5
Max
-
Prerequisites
ACCT 201, BUAD 202 or ECON 170, ECON 101, and ECON 102, business school major or pre-business major