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Dr. W. Brett McKenzie, 210 Gabelli School of Business 
E-mail: wmckenzie@rwu.edu Office Tel: (401) 254-3534  Text: (401) 626-0806

Syllabus - BUSN408 Business Ethics (External Course-SU11)

Course Description

Course Objectives

Text and Other Materials

Required

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The Ethical Executive
R. Hoyk and P. Hersey

ISBN: 0-8047-7178-2
Publisher: Sanford Business Books
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 136 pp
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 Boiler Room (DVD)
New Line Home Video
2000
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 Smartest Guys in the Room (DVD)
Magnolia Studios
2006
Case studies
Links at:
http://www.wbrett.com/busn408/calendar.html



Course Communications

E-mail  
 An RWU e-mail account is required for this class.
You may forward your RWU account to a preferred account, but you will be responsible for any e-mail messages sent to your RWU account.

Email Etiquette:
  • Begin the subject line with BUSN408.
  • Use a closing that indicates your real name or use signature block.
  • When replying to an e-mail, start your reply at the top of the email.
  • Use standard written English - capitalization, punctuation and paragraphing.
Your e-mail is important. If you use CIS200 to begin the subject, I expect to reply within 48 hours. Otherwise, I may not notice it among the other e-mails I receive.

The Web
http://www.wbrett.com is the course website and contains all the course documents. 
You may be required to access documents or submit responses via a learning management system such as Blackboard, bridges, moodle or instructure

Course Requirements

Readings
Read the chapters, cases and view the movies. Make notes as you will be required to respond. You may need to see the movie more than once.

Responses
As an external course, your responses are written. They are expected to be in standard written English and not mere bullet points. APA citation standard will be used.

Quiz
Quiz management will be via LMS. They will be timed. You will be able to use any resources except the help of a live person. 

Attendance Policy
As an external course, you are required to check in via email when designated on the course calendar. There will also be scheduled face-to-face meetings.

Academic Integrity
Assignments you submit and projects you present are your own work alone. You are expected to credit intellectual property sources for all media used in your projects. Intellectual theft results in a zero for the assignment.

Course Calendar
The calendar  is your guide to the course. It is my best estimate of the course at the date of publication. I reserve the right to make changes depending upon the pace of the class and external events. The calendar will be updated on-line. You are responsible for schedule changes.

Course Grading

Component

Weight

Boiler Room Response

50

Personal Response

50

Smartest Guy Response

100
  International Ethics Response   100

Ethical Executive Response

100
  Ethical Executive Quiz
   100

Total

500

Course Materials
Course materials are covered by the appropriate copyright. Locally prepared course materials are the property of the faculty, which includes hand-outs, website content, and other presentation materials or assignments. Use beyond the classroom requires permission.
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