2019/20 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS3115 Critical Cases for Banking and Finance

20 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Valeriya Dinger
Email: V.N.Dinger@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2019/20

Pre-requisites

LUBS2205	Corporate Finance
LUBS2260	Banks and Banking Systems
LUBS2265	Commercial Banking

This module is mutually exclusive with

LUBS3003

Business Ethics

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The aim of this module is to develop your higher level technical, professional and ethical skills appropriate for a career in banking and finance. The module is delivered by academics based both in the Business School with support from the Inter-disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre. Consequently, the module focuses on the application of ethics to professional practice in banking and finance. As well as academic literature, the module includes realistic unstructured complex case sutdy scenarios in which you will need to demonstrate professional and ethical judgement.

Objectives

The aim of this module is to develop students' higher level technical, professional and ethical skills appropriate for a career in banking and finance. As well as the academic literature, the module includes unstructured complex case study scenarios in which students will need to demonstrate appropriate professional and ethical judgement.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
1. Interpret and analyse current commercial and professional issues in a banking and finance context and devise, evaluate and justify alternative courses of action and solutions;
2. Discuss key ethical concepts and evaluate their application in banking and finance;
3. Evaluate alternative theories on ethics and relate them to corporate responsibility practice in the banking and finance sector; and
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the roles of professionals and business leaders in providing ethical leadership.

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Identify issues which raise professional responsibilities and consequences of unethical behaviour and formulate appropriate professional recommendations
- Demonstrate technical, analytical, evaluative and integrative skills appropriate to a professional in the banking and finance discipline

Syllabus

Indicative content:

The purpose of business, business ethics and corporate social responsibility, banking as a profession, professional ethics, ethics and financial regulation, ethical theory and reasoning, moral hazard and the Financial Crisis, whistleblowing, leadership and organisational culture, banking and finance in a digital age and the ethics of AI and big data, Green Finance and sustainability.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	10	2.00	20.00
Seminar	10	2.00	20.00
Private study hours			160.00
Total Contact hours			40.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Students are required to undertake specified pre-reading and case study preparation in advance of the classes based on the material introduced in the lectures. This may include some pre-reading and formative questions.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will be able to monitor their progress through fortnightly seminars. Suggested answers and areas for further work will be discussed and circulated.
Formative feedback is provided throughout the course in form of practice case studies which will be the subject of peer review marking as well as feedback from the tutor. These practice cases do not contribute to the final mark but provide the student with a benchmark for their understanding of the material covered.
In addition students will have the opportunity to take a Mock Exam in the second semester on which they will receive a grade and personalised feedback.
Teaching staff on the module will also be available at set desk times each week to give students the opportunity to deal with any academic problems as they arise.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2,000 words	40.00
Essay	2,000 words	40.00
Presentation	30 minute presentation with questions	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by 3,000 word coursework.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 11/05/2020

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