Southwest Missouri State University also has a business ethics course taught
in the Philosophy department.>


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>We have a separate Business Ethics course that is offered as a business
>elective and is taught by the Philosophy Department.  I include a significant
>amount of ethics in my Business Law and Legal Environment courses (the
>Cheeseman book targets ethics in each chapter and is wonderful).
>    In our recent ACBSP visit, my inclusion of ethics was sufficient to
>satisfy the ethics requirement.  Nevertheless, I have started work on a
>practical Business Ethics course to stand alone in the curriculum.  The
>philosophy based course is too "classical" in my opinion and while it is
>wonderful as a base of knowledge, I don't imagine that Plato ever sat across
>from a family breadwinner and informed him or her that they were being fired
>or laid off.  I also wonder if Socrates ever considered ancient orgies to be
>in any way creating a hostile work environment.
>    If you answer Rick privately, I would appreciate a cc: please.
>--Mike Katz