With stubbornly persistent and newly emerging challenges related to business activities (e.g., climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity loss), business ethics is an increasingly important and salient topic in both the classroom and boardroom. This course focuses on the application of ethical theories, concepts, and frameworks to business decision-making, with the goal of helping to prepare Aquinas business students to make fair, sustainable, and effective management decisions over the short- and long-term, both in the public or private sector.
In this course we will take an active and collaborative learning approach, both inside and outside of the classroom. Individual and collective critical thinking, open communication, curiosity, and creativity are expected. Thoughtful and engaged inquiry and exploration will foster active discussions and will open the door to deeper learning. Thus, a willingness to actively explore different ways of seeing the world and understanding experience - past, present and future - is critical to success. These approaches, values, and attributes should be put to use, to greater and lesser extents, each day we meet.
- Faculty: Jason Good