Schedule of assignments (as of 5/9/11)

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Date	Topic	Reading (Note: MM=Moral Mazes; BEF = Business in Ethical Focus)	Writing
May 9	Introductory Session: approaches to ethics	None (Optional: read the articles on these approaches in our textbook)	Introduction sheet	Cases for Discussion; Discussion Project: Applying Simple Utilitarianism; Discusssion Project: Applying Kant's Categorical Imperative
May 16	Free market purism vs. stakeholder theory	BEF, Ch 8 (Freidman) pp.65-69, Ch 9 (Freeman), pp.69-78; MM, Intro and Chapters 1 and 2	Response paper	Notes on Ethics and Markets (for next time); First Position Paper assignment
May 23	Background: economics, property rights and the "invisible hand"	BEF Ch 43 (Smith) pp.483-490, Ch 2 (Sen) pp.20-28, Ch 12 (Heath) pp.110-130, Ch 42 (Locke), Ch 44 (Marx)	Response paper	Discussion Project: Applying Stakeholder and Stockholder Theories; Discussion Project on Market Failures; Notes on Rawls and Nozick (for next time)
May 30	Memorial Day Holiday - No Class
June 6	Background: theories of justice	BEF Ch's 45-48 (Rawls, Nozick, Nielsen, Cohen) pp.498-550; Handouts on distribution of income and executive compensation.	Response paper;First Position Paper assignment	Possible Questions for the first exam (June 20)
June 13	Employment at will or Due process	BEF Ch's 22-23 (Werhane & Radin and Epstein) pp.255-266), Case Studies 1 and 3, pp.246-248, pp.316-318); MM Ch. 3	Response paper	Discussion Project on Employment at Will
June 20	How people get ahead in business	BEF Ch's 31-32 (Hettinger and Pojman) pp.326-355; MM Ch.4 (review Ch 3)	Response paper; First exam	Possible Questions for the first exam (June 20)
June 27	Whistleblowing	BEF Ch's 24-25 (DeGeorge and Larmer), pp.267-278; MM Ch. 5	Response paper
July 4	4th of July Holiday – no class
July 11	Environmental responsibility	BEF Ch's 18-21 (Sagoff, Shrader-Frechette, Poff, Machan) pp.189-245	Response paper	Video links: Ray Anderson's TED talk; Excerpts from the film "The Corporation"; The entire 2.5 hour movie on Hulu
July 18	Occupational Safety	BEF Ch's 28-29 (Superson and Machan) pp.302-315; MM Ch. 6	Response paper
July 25	Global business and sweatshops	BEF Ch's 15-16 (Maitland and Donaldson) pp.154-180	Response paper;2nd Position Paper	Possible Questions for the second exam (August 8)
August 1	Truth, Lies and Bluffing	BEF Ch 36 (Carr) pp.400-409, Ch.38 (Allfoff) pp.432-439), Ch 51 (Machan) pp.584-592; MM Ch. 7	Response paper
August 8	Free choice or distorted desires?	BEF Ch's 52-55 (Waide, Crisp, Arrington, Paine) pp.592-626, Case Studies 9 and 10, pp.640-644; MM, Ch 8	Response paper; Second exam	Possible Questions for the second exam (August 8)