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SOC10236

Applied Ethics and

Sustainability

Unit Information Guide

Session 1, 2017

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Contents

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About this unit

The influence of culture and society on the creation of knowledge, truth and morality provide

the foundation to explore a broad range of ethical theories. These theories are applied to

diverse contemporary issues including human rights and corporate governance. The unit

explores the ethical roots of the ecological crisis and examines the contribution of the

sustainability concept to the search for a solution.

Content

Introduction

Case study - Interface & sustainable business

Culture and ethics: Case study - Traidcraft as an ethical organisation

Consequential ethical theories: Case study - Supersize me

Non-consequential ethical theories: Case study - Enron

Applied business ethics: Case studies - Shell Oil in Nigeria, Enron

Environmental ethics: Case study - Ethical agriculture

Sustainability & environment: Case study - Rocky Mountain Institute

Social & cultural sustainability: Case study - Learning from Ladakh

Economic sustainability: Case study - Guitang Sugar

Sustainable organisations: Case Study - Coopers Brewery

Contemporary ethical & global sustainability issues: Case Studies - Danone, Homeless World

Cup

A global sustainable society: Case Study - Gross National Happiness in Bhutan

Graduate attributes and unit learning outcomes

As a graduate of Southern Cross University, you will have developed skills, values and attitudes

that are essential for gaining employment and advancing lifelong learning. The University

refers to these as graduate attributes (http://policies.scu.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00091#s3)

and identifies them as follows:

GA1 Intellectual rigour, GA2 Creativity, GA3 Ethical practice, GA4 Knowledge of a discipline,

GA5 Lifelong learning, GA6 Communication and social skills, GA7 Cultural competence.

This unit will assist students to develop the following graduate attributes (shown below as they

relate to this unit's learning outcomes):

Learning outcomes for this unit GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. describe major ethics and sustainability

tools and concepts

✓

2. utilise critical reasoning skills to identify

solutions to ethical problems

✓

3. examine sustainability policy and

practice at multiple levels

✓

4. evaluate the social, environmental and

economic impact of business on

stakeholders

✓

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Learning outcomes for this unit GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7

5. explain the importance of diverse

cultural influences to ethics and

sustainability

✓

6. analyse contemporary global ethical and

sustainability issues.

✓

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Learning resources

Prescribed texts and materials

There are compulsory readings and a Study Guide for this unit. See MySCU

(http://learn.scu.edu.au) for details.

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Studying this unit

The first step in managing your study for this unit is to familiarise yourself with this document

and the MySCU (http://learn.scu.edu.au) Learning Site. You should refer frequently to the

MySCU Learning Site for announcements and updates.

Teaching and learning arrangements

Estimated workload

Scheduled hours Personal study Total

36 94 130

Your scheduled study hours are allocated as follows:

Gold Coast