H- Our system of business is designed to serve a moral goal, and ethical values shape the daily practice business professionals. This philosophy course highlights these deep moral foundations and is intended to help you develop the skills needed to create and defend culturally sensitive and logically sound responses to ethical issues that arise in a contemporary global business setting. It will help you to craft a vision of what it means to be an honorable businessperson working in an honorable profession. Along the way, the course will explore ethical concerns such as the role of business in society, employer-employee relationships, just and unjust discrimination, pricing and pay practices, marketing and sales tactics, engineering technology, and privacy. Students will come out of this class with a greater understanding of how to do business in a manner that creates value and respects the inherent dignity of all people.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of ENGL 95 or above, or placement into ENGL&101.