PHIL 313 - Philosophy of Business and Professional Ethics

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Social Justice
Explores value systems and ethical issues related to business, professional, and commercial activity. Topics may include organizational culture, ethical leadership, diversity, environmental regulation vs. property rights, truthfulness in business communications, and corporate social responsibility.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Social Justice
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of economic systems, practices, and policies including their implication on society as well as moral behavior and justice;
analyze the cultural history of economic systems, moral systems and their interaction;
demonstrate how we can influence these practices and policies through our actions as individuals as well as through coordinated action.

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Social Justice Overlay Learning Outcomes
1: Use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity.

2: Describe the challenges to achieving social justice.

3: Identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, and/or the world.