Concentration in Corporate Ethics & Social Responsibility

If you are a person who is drawn to questions of moral behavior, or if you are passionate about the responsibility of the corporation toward society or the environment, then the concentration in Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility will interest you as a Business Leadership specialization.

The concentration in Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility is an 18-hour curriculum focused on social and ethical foundations of corporate responsibility. It exemplifies the College’s commitment to its mission to develop “principled and moral leadership.” It is the opportunity for the student to pursue in-depth study of business within the contexts of applied ethics and Catholic social teaching. Business Leadership majors only are eligible to participate. Its primary audience includes students interested in understanding the ethical dimensions of corporate behavior and studying alternative social views of corporate responsibility.

Concentration requirements. 18 credit hours of study to include:

BUS 3341 Business and Society
THE 3340 Social Justice*
THE 3341 Moral Theology
PHI 3334 Business Ethics*
PHI 4336 Ethics
(* courses in the Business Leadership Major)

Select 1 course (3 credit hours) from allied social and ethics studies:

THE 4343 Social Teaching
THE 4345 Bio-ethical issues
PHI 4334 Bioethics
PHI 5321 Social Philosophy
PHI 5331 Philosophy of Law
PHI 5345 Philosophy of Technology
ECO 4346 Economics & Social Ethics
BUS 3352 Topics in Business Leadership (ethics or social issues topic)
BUS 4352 Topics in Business Leadership (ethics or social issues topic)

Profit is a regulator of the life of a business, but it is not the only one; other human and moral factors must also be considered which, in the long term, are at least equally important for the life of a business. (Pope John Paul II, Centesimus annus, 1991)