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Level 6
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20 Credits
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0.1667 EFTS
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Course duration: 16 weeks
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Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
This online course will help you develop your ability to identify ethical issues in business situations. You will be able to critically discuss these issues, with a view to developing and communicating justification for ethical decisions in these situations.
When you complete this online course you will be able to:
- analyse particular business situations using ethical theories to generate recommendations for action
- develop reasoned arguments to support positions on topical ethical issues in business
- identify and discuss the nature of ethical inquiry and the nature of ethical justification with regard to business issues and situations
- explain the positions of some major ethical theories and illustrate a critical understanding of these approaches using examples drawn from business situations
- apply some major ethical theories to evaluate the ethical acceptability of actions in business situations
- critically discuss topical ethical issues in business.
Assessment
Assessment for this course is:
- 60% internally assessed
- 40% examination.
For more information, including and a full list of exam times see our examinations page.
Exam dates and venue information
Textbooks
No textbooks are required for this course
How to enrol
Before enrolling in this course you need to:
- choose the qualification you will study the course under
- check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.