ECON 105 - Corporate Misconduct: Crimes, Crashes, Crises

Units: 3
Economics behind major business failures, stock market crashes, and financial crises; US financial history; corporate governance legislation.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Link formal and informal incentives to individual actions and their effects on the behavior of an organization;
Discuss the choices made by, and alternatives available to, individuals in dysfunctional corporate environments;
Identify the fundamental problems relating to the separation of ownership and control in corporations;
Explain the context of, and reasons behind, some of the famous corporate failures;
Outline the history of major stock market and financial crises in the United States;
Understand the motivations behind, and main provisions of key regulatory legislation that pertains to corporate governance and financial reporting in the United States.