May 06, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HU 432 - Ethics for Professional Managers and Engineers

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course examines and evaluates the meaning of ethics and professional conduct. A guiding theme is the human search or quest for values and ethical direction in terms of professional and/or personal conduct and our daily life relationships with others. We will articulate and evaluate our own ethical principles and values and their foundations. Students cannot get credit for both HU 332  and HU 432. (prereq: junior standing)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Apply the ethical concepts relevant to resolving moral issues in business, industry, and other relevant areas of concern
  • Articulate and defend with good reasons his/her own ethical point of view pertaining to specific problem areas in business, industry, and related areas

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None 

Course Topics
  • The nature of ethics (2 classes)
  • Ethical development and responsibility (2 classes)
  • The search for ethical principles and values (1 class)
  • Divine command views (1 class)
  • Human nature and values (1 class)
  • Utilitarianism (2 classes)
  • Kantian ethics and rights (1 class)
  • Justice (1 class)
  • Ethical obligations to the public (2 classes)
  • Ethics - Employer and employee relationships (6 classes)
  • Job discrimination and affirmative action (3 classes)
  • Ethics - the environment and technology (6 classes)
  • Exam (1 class)

Coordinator
Jon Borowicz



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