From climate change to the gig economy, the world needs business experts who can guide moral decision-making. In this specialization, you will gain foundational knowledge in business ethics and learn how to apply analytical tools, such as market, benefit-cost analysis, and risk analysis models, to today’s global challenges to make transformational change in the corporate world.
Courses
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a Bachelor of Business Administration or a joint-major Honours degree in Business Administration degree may graduate a Specialization in Ethics & Sustainability if they have successfully completed the following 4.0 credits with a minimum grade of 65% in each:
- 0.5 ADMN credit consisting of:
- ADMN 3300H: Personal Ethics in Organizations and Business
- 1.0 ADMN credit from:
- ADMN-PHIL 4250H: Business Ethics and Corporations
- ADMN-PHIL 4260H: Ethics and Capitalism
- ADMN 4450H: Perspectives and Practices for Organizational Sustainability
- 1.0 credit from:
- PHIL 1100H: Introduction to Philosophy: Moral and Political
- PHIL 2110H: Moral Issues
- PHIL 2390H: Biomedical Ethics
- PHIL 3110H: Ethical Theory
- PHIL-POST 3140H: Justice and Rights
- PHIL-POST 3180H: Social and Political Philosophy
- ERST-PHIL 3301H: Environmental Ethics*
- ERST-PHIL 3302H: Animals and Society*
- PHIL-COIS-MDST 3370H: Cyberethics
- PHIL 4310H: Advanced Topics in Value Theory
- 1.0 credit from:
- ERST-POST 2100H: Environmental Science and Politics
- ERST-CAST-FRSC-POST 3120H: Canadian Environmental Policy
- ERSC 3160H: Community-Based Natural Resource Management
- ERST-FRSC 3250H: Introduction to Environmental Law
- ERST-PHIL 3301H: Environmental Ethics*
- ERST-PHIL 3302H: Animals and Society*
- ERST-GEOG 4140H (or ERST 4130H): Climate and Energy Policy
- ERSC/ERST 4801H: Greening the Campus: Green Infrastructure
- HIST-ERST 3756H: The Environmental Crisis: From the Atomic Bomb to Global Warming
- INDG-ERST-IESS 4730Y: Sustainable Indigenous Communities
- 0.5 additional credit from the courses listed above
*may only count toward one list
Program Coordinator
A. Zohar, BA, MES, PhD (York)
Gain a deep understanding of business organizations and corporations' pivotal responsibilities to consumers, employees, the economy, and the environment.