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Ethics and Business Communications in the Public Service

2023/2024
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
5
ECTS credits
Course type:
Elective course
When:
4 year, 2 module

Instructor


Rubtсova, Mariia V.

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course explores some issues in ethics in the social-economic policy. The modern public and business sectors began to rethink and rebuild their commitment to society and to ethical problems. The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of modern ideas and trends in ethics in the social-economic policy and its influence on the decigion-making process.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The course introduces students to the concepts of ethics of social-economic environment in its mutual influence on the decision-making process
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • - to increase understanding and critical analysis of the intersection between ethical behavior and social-economic outcomes in modern society; - to study different theoretical perspectives of ethical communication in Russian and international contexts; - to analyze principles and criteria for regulation of ethical behavior for different stakeholders; - to discuss some decision-making criteria for solving ethical conflicts; - to develop professional communication practices for students.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Theoretical framework and Principles of Ethics in the social-economic environment in its mutual influence on the decision-making process
  • The history of the development of socio-economic ethics
  • Norms and principles of ethics in socio-economic policy and decision-making
  • Intercultural features of ethics in socio-economic policy.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Essays
  • non-blocking Home task
  • non-blocking Final exam
    In the case of a high grade for the essay and homework of 8-10 points, the student is exempted from writing the final test. Her/his resulting grade will be equal to the accumulated
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 2nd module
    0.3 * Essays + 0.4 * Final exam + 0.3 * Home task
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Ethics in social science research : becoming culturally responsive, Lahman, M. K. E., 2018
  • The Oxford handbook of environmental ethics, , 2017
  • When all else fails : the ethics of resistance to state injustice, Brennan, J., 2019

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • A history of utilitarian ethics : studies in private motivation and distributive justice, 1700-1875, Hollander, S., 2020
  • The ethics of multiple citizenship, Tanasoca, A., 2018

Authors

  • BEBBUKINA NADEZHDA VIKTOROVNA
  • RUBTSOVA MARIYA VLADIMIROVNA
  • KAYSAROVA VALENTINA PETROVNA