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Sep 07, 2024
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PHIL 260 - Business Ethics 5 CR
Same as BUS 260 . Introduction to ethical theories relevant to issues and problems in business. Explores ethical concerns in marketing, race/gender bias, economics, the natural environment, employee-employer duties, and civic relations. Either PHIL 260 or BUS 260 may be taken for credit, not both.
Course Outcomes - Formulate, clarify, and evaluate arguments.
- Analyze and assess views that make ethics a matter of convention, such as Moral Relativism and Divine Command Theory.
- Explain and evaluate substantive ethical theories and principles of bioethics, such as Utilitarianism, respect for persons, beneficence, distributive justice, and the ethics of care.
- Explain how substantive ethical theories and principles of bioethics, such as Utilitarianism, respect for persons, beneficence, distributive justice, and the ethics of care incorporate the value of cultural diversity.
- Explain historical cases of unethical biomedical practices, such as medical experimentation without informed consent and racial disparities in access to quality medical treatment.
- Using ethical theories and principles, analyze the historical racial and power dynamics in bioethics that prompted the development of current professional bioethics principles and legal guidelines.
- Analyze and assess biomedical ethical issues like euthanasia, genetic engineering, end-of-life care, treatment of minors, access to health care, experimental treatment, and abortion in terms of substantive ethical theories.
- Explain the ethical foundations of medical guidelines concerning voluntary informed assent and the use of subjects in experimental procedures. Explain ethical issues concerning disabilities.
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