51E00100 - Business Ethics, Lecture, 27.2.2025-3.4.2025

Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Participants will learn to assume a critical attitude towards promises of moral improvement in businesses and economies; and to see business activities and economic decisions in their wider social and political contexts.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 27.02.2025 - 03.04.2025

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Alice Wickström

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The topics covered during the course include the business, ethical, political, and critical approaches to corporate social responsibility; political and moral philosophy, justice, and business; neoliberalism, sustainable growth, environmental ethics; corporate scandals and their impacts; and diversity and equality in business.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    1. Individual asssignment(s). Assessment: 0-5. 100% of the grade, distributed across assignment(s).

    2. Attendance in sessions. Participants are required to fully attend a minimum of 8 sessions. Assessment: Pass / Fail.

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures, individual assignments, and in-class activities and presentation(s).



DETAILS

Study Material

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Package of readings specified at the beginning of the course.

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    4 Quality Education

    5 Gender Equality

    10 Reduced Inequality

    13 Climate Action

    16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language: English

    Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring IV
    2025-2026 No teaching

    Registration:

    Students are admitted to the course in the following priority order 1) Creative Sustainability, 2) BIZ exchange students, 3) Other School of Business students, 4) Other students.


    Students must attend the first lecture to ensure their place in the course.

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