ANU-PAAE8006:Business Ethics
Subject XNTS70034 (2010)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.
| Credit Points: | 12.50 | ||||||||||||
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| Level: | 7 (Graduate/Postgraduate) | ||||||||||||
| Dates & Locations: | This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010: Semester 2, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Melbourne Students will normally take this subject on-line Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here. | ||||||||||||
| Time Commitment: | Contact Hours: A 2-hour seminar at ANU each week or online Total Time Commitment: An average of 10 hours each week. | ||||||||||||
| Prerequisites: | Enrolment in the MA(Professional and Applied Ethics), the Post graduate certificate in Professional Ethics or the Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Ethics or with permission of the coordinator. | ||||||||||||
| Corequisites: | None | ||||||||||||
| Recommended Background Knowledge: | Knowledge gained in a 3 year undergraduate degree or equivalent. | ||||||||||||
| Non Allowed Subjects: | This subject was previously offered under the code 922-508. Students who have completed 922-508 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. | ||||||||||||
| Core Participation Requirements: |
For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website : http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/ |
Contact
For ANU enrolments please contact the Arts and Music student centre with regards to Cross Insitutional arrangements. Arts & Music Student Centre
richard.lucas@anu.edu.au a.alexandra@unimelb.edu.au
| Subject Overview: | This course aims to take the student through a comprehensive analysis of ethical issues arising from business practice. We presuppose an analytic philosophical methodology, utilising the traditional tools of secular ethics in that tradition. The course will consider moral issues in business from both a theoretical standpoint (systematic and principle-based), and through case studies; thus we will try to be as sensitive as possible to the real world particularities of a business environment, yet our analyses will recognise the importance and relevance of our major ethical theories within the teleological, deontological and virtue ethics traditions. |
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| Objectives: |
When successfully completed, students will have developed a good theoretical understanding both of central and current issues in Business Ethics and of some key philosophical issues of importance to applied ethics more generally. |
| Assessment: | Indicative Assessment: Class participation (10%), 2,000 word writing assignment (30%), and 4,000 word writing assignment (60%). |
| Prescribed Texts: | Shaw, William, H. & Barry, Vincent. Moral Issues in Business (Ninth Edition). Thomson Wadsworth: Belmont |
| Breadth Options: | This subject is not available as a breadth subject. |
| Fees Information: | Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date |
| Links to further information: | http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/cappe/ |
| Notes: | This course is available for on-campus and off-campus (correspondence) students. On-campus students will meet with the Convener once a week to discuss readings and the conceptual materials gained by the reading materials. Distance students will participate in on-line forums for discussion of class reading materials, which students will be expected to participate in. This is the best way for off-campus students to interact with the class. |
| Related Course(s): |
Master of Arts (Professional and Applied Ethics) Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Ethics Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Ethics |
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