Center Course Offerings
Undergraduate Courses
Undergraduate Roadmap 2009-2010 (PDF Format)
Social, Political, and Ethical Environment Business
Business Ethics for the 21st Century
Strategic
Corporate Responsibility (CSR) & Projects
Colloquium on the Social, Political, and Ethical Environment Business (UGBA 177)
Instructor: Alan Ross
Offered: Spring 2010
This is a survey course on the political, social, and ethical environment of business. It is designed to give you insight into complex and controversial social issues and public policy problems that complicate the task of managing American business. Each week a guest speaker will discuss an issue ranging from corporate social responsibility to protecting the environment.
Business Ethics for the 21st Century (UGBA 170)
Instructor: Jack Phillips
Offered: Spring 2010
The purpose of this class is to enhance the ability of students to anticipate, critically analyze, and appropriately respond to the wide-range social and ethical issues that challenge managers as well as individuals in their roles as citizens, consumers, investors, and employees. Instruction is based on lectures and case analysis, supplemented by topical and philosophical articles and essays.
Strategic Corporate Responsibility (CSR) & Projects (UGBA 192P)
Instructor: Kevin Sweeney
Offered: Fall 2009
Many leading businesses understand that socially and environmentally responsible practices can be a source of competitive advantage and the means to long-term success – but they still wrestle with how to embed CSR into their day-to–day business operations.
This course focuses on how, when and why companies can integrate CSR into their corporate strategies, using their core competencies to create business value and positive social change. It will explore the changing expectations the public has of business and business leaders, and the changing dynamic between business, government and the social sector.
This highly practical course requires students to roll up their sleeves and apply their learning in the field. Teams of students will work on live consulting projects for real companies grappling with CSR issues. They will learn how to manage their client relationships over the course of the semester. Previous consulting projects have involved social entrepreneurship, socially responsible investing, branding, communication strategies, stakeholder engagement, transparent reporting, public/private partnerships, strategic philanthropy, and consumer segmentation.
Writing assignments will not be traditional papers, but will take the form of business memos, again relying on real examples inside real companies. In-class exercises will help students see ways to identify value in CSR efforts. Students will emerge ready to develop and implement strategic CSR within their own companies and industries through any job function as a viable and necessary business strategy.
Undergraduate RFP Submission Form 2009
