2008/09 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS3003 Business Ethics
20 creditsClass Size: 60
Module manager: Julia Clarke
Email: jc@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2008/09
This module is not approved as an Elective
Objectives
On completion of this module, students should be able to:- Understand key ethical concepts and their application to business organizations, key functions within business and professions.
- Critically analyse competing theories on business ethics
- Critique and evaluate existing CSR practice
Learning outcomes
Knowledge of key ethical concepts and their application to business and the professions.
Skills outcomes
This module focuses on developing the skills of analysis and critical thinking by challenging students' capacity to evaluate differing perspectives and, in particular, to bring theoretical concepts from another discipline to bear on their understanding of the business world. The group project will give students opportunities to enhance their team-working and communication skills.
Syllabus
The module will be based on a series of 11 lectures. The first few lectures will provide an introduction to business ethics and corporate responsibility. Following lectures will focus on the application of ethics to specific areas of business (for example, corporate reporting, advertising). Tutorials will use a series of case studies to explore key ethical concepts relating to the lecture topic in a business context. Hence, the module focuses on the application of ethics to business rather than on the discussion of ethical theory per se.
A group project will enable students to address an ethical problem as experienced in practice, or to work together on an ethical concept of direct practical relevance. Working as a group will give students the experience of how ethical problems often have to be resolved in face of competing perspectives in practice.
Teaching methods
Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
Film Screenings | 1 | 13.00 | 13.00 |
Group Project | 1 | 30.00 | 30.00 |
Independent Learning | 1 | 125.00 | 125.00 |
Lecture | 12 | 1.00 | 12.00 |
Seminar | 10 | 2.00 | 20.00 |
Private study hours | 0.00 | ||
Total Contact hours | 200.00 | ||
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 |
Private study
Students will be required to do pre-reading and follow up reading for each lecture. They will be required to prepare for each seminar and expected to review their learning from each session in the context of their reading for the related lecture. The lecture and seminar series has been designed to allow students a time period of two weeks for each of the topics covered.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
-Completion of and feedback on group project-Feedback on practice essay
Methods of assessment
Coursework
Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
Group Project | 3,000 words | 30.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 30.00 |
Resit by 3 hour written paper.
Exams
Exam type | Exam duration | % of formal assessment |
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc) | 3 hr | 70.00 |
Total percentage (Assessment Exams) | 70.00 |
Resit by 3 hour written paper.
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 26/03/2009
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