At Fairfield we have had a core 3 credit MBA course for many years called
the Legal, Social and Ethical environment of Business. Sometimes
International gets added. I have taught this very frequently, and, like
Anne, feel that covering even law and ethics adequately is very, very hard.
I have been urging that this be split into at least two modules, if not two
courses. But the main point is these areas are solidly in our curriculum,
and we are AACSB accredited.
Lucy Katz

At 07:21 AM 9/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I need some input from those schools that offer a course in "Law &
Ethics" at
>> the MBA level.  At UNLV we presently teach a 2 hour course on the
subject, but
>> the dean is considering making it a 3 hour course, a move which I obviously
>> support.
>>
>> I need to know about programs out there that teach the course as a 3
hour course
>> to show the powers to be that it is often taught this way.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>It's interesting that you asked about this course because here at
>Michigan State University, we have been "playing around" with law in the
>MBA program for the past four years.  For a time, it was a part of two
>other courses and for the first time this year, it is a 2 credit Ethics
>and Law class (the Associate Dean wanted the Ethics listed first).  I am
>teaching it and find that it is impossible to do justice to the topics
>with 2 credits.  I find, in fact, that the ethics is given the least
>amount of time as helping the MBA's understand the law and how it works
>in the workplace takes up at least the 3 1/2 hours I have with them each
>week (it's taught in a mini-mester style).  I assigned an ethics reading
>but we never seem to be able to get to it and are behind even on the
>legal material.  I mentioned to the MBA director just the other day that
>I am concerned about the ethics material being lost.  As for material--I
>have had to put together a custom text in order to integrate the topics
>in law and ethics that I want to cover.
>
>Anne Levy
>