Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

The module aims are: to introduce you to basic theories of ethics and politics; to engage you with a range of ethical challenges faced by contemporary business and other organisations in the practices of their activities and operations; to enable you to apply theories of ethics to contemporary issues faced by business and other organisations; to enable you to engage with and critically reflect upon ethical choices and dilemmas by engaging in a team based project work which requires you to deal practically with ethical concerns.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the module you should be able to: demonstrate knowledge of core theories of ethics; understand key contemporary ethical issues faced by businesses and organisations; apply ethical theories to analyse critically contemporary ethical issues faced by businesses and other organisations; understand current organizational responses (practices, procedures, etc.) to ethical dilemmas; demonstrate improved verbal and written communication skills; utilise critical thinking skills in analyzing ethical dilemmas elicited/explored with the research project; understand/have an experience of teamwork and research skills/activities.

Timetabled teaching activities

1 x 2 hour lecture per week, 1 x 1 hour seminar per week

Departmental link

http://www.wbs.ac.uk/students/undergraduate/

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
12 CATS (Module code: IB3E6-12)
A1 (Assessed work only)	12 CATS Assessed Essay (2000 words)	70%
	Presentation and Report	30%
15 CATS (Module code: IB3E6-15)
A1 (Assessed work only)	15 CATS Assessed Essay (2500 words)	70%
	Presentation and Report	30%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

N/A

Optional

• Undergraduate Physics and Business Studies (F3N1) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Physics and Business Studies (with Intercalated Year) (F3ND) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Chemistry and Business Studies (FN11) - Year 3
• Chemistry and Business Studies(with Intercalated Year) (FN12) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Business Studies (with Intercalated Year) (G1N2) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Business Studies (G1NC) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer and Management Sciences (G5N1) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer and Management Sciences (with Intercalated Year) (G5NA) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (GL11) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (with Intercalated Year) (GL12) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Computer and Business Studies (GN51) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Computer and Business Studies (with Intercalated Year) (GN5A) - Year 4
• BSc Engineering and Business Studies (HN11) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Economics 3 Year Variants (L100) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (L103) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (L114) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Economics 3 Year Variants (L116) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (L117) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Economics, Politics and International Studies (LM1D) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Economics 4 Year Variants (LM1H) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies (MN31) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies (MN32) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies (MN32) - Year 4
• Law and Business Four Year (Qualifying Degree) (MN34) - Year 3
• Law and Business Four Year (Qualifying Degree) (MN34) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies with Intercalated Year (3+1) (MN35) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies with Intercalated Year (3+1) (MN35) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies with Intercalated Year (4+1) (MN36) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies with Intercalated Year (4+1) (MN36) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies (Qualifying Degree) with Intercalated Year (MN37) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Law and Business Studies (Qualifying Degree) with Intercalated Year (MN37) - Year 5
• Undergraduate International Business (N140) - Year 4
• Undergraduate International Business with French (N1R1) - Year 4
• Undergraduate International Business with German (N1R2) - Year 4
• Undergraduate International Business with Italian (N1R3) - Year 4
• Undergraduate International Business with Spanish (N1R4) - Year 4
• BSc in Management (N201) - Year 3
• BSc in Management (with Intercalated Year/UPP) (N202) - Year 4
• BSc in International Management (N203) - Year 4
• BSc in Management (with Intercalated Year/UPP) (N210) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Information Systems Management and Innovation (N211) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Information Systems Management and Innovation (with Intercalated Year) (N214) - Year 4
• BSc in Management (N230) - Year 3
• BSc in Management (with Intercalated Year/UPP) (N231) - Year 4
• BSc in Management (N250) - Year 3
• BSc in Management (with Intercalated Year/UPP) (N251) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Accounting and Finance (NN35) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Accounting and Finance (with Intercalated Year/Undergraduate Partnership Programme) (NN36) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Accounting and Finance (with Intercalated Year/Undergraduate Partnership Programme) (NN37) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7ML) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7ML) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (with Intercalated year) (V7MM) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MP) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MP) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (with Intercalated year) (V7MQ) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MR) - Year 2
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MR) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (V7MR) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Philosophy, Politics and Economics (with Intercalated year) (V7MS) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Language, Culture and Communication (X3Q5) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Language, Culture and Communication (with Year Abroad) (X3Q6) - Year 4