Classes

Ethics and Ethical Decision Making: The courses included under this subheading aim to help the student gain understanding in how ethical decisions are made, and all the aspects and factors that influence the ability to make these decisions. Resources and time are limited, so law practices and all corporations need to decide where their resources should be allocated, and how much ethics play a role in these management decisions.

1. Phil 250: Biomedical Ethics (Pre-Rec: BTS-T) Interim 2018
   • Biomedical ethics explores in depth one aspect of ethics: health and health care. It provides a detailed examination of what is considered ethical, and where to draw the line between ethical and when care goes too far. It provides a thorough basis in the defining of ethics and how they are applied in every aspect of life, instead of being confined to the philosophy sector. This course helped me understand how decisions must be made to balance both the resources of a corporation with the possible good or harm those decisions may do.

2. Phil 258: Ethics, Economics, and the Marketplace (Pre-Rec: BTS-T) Spring 2020

• This course focuses on the connection between ethics and the economy, discussing the connection, as well as the disconnect, between moral values and how they are implemented in the marketplace. This course will help solidify the connection between ethics and the economy, exploring how they both correlate as well as where they diverge from one another.

3. Phil 254: Law, Politics, and Morality (Pre-Rec: BTS-T) Fall 2019
   • Law, politics, and morality explores the complex relationship between all three aspects. It aims to answer fundamental questions such as “how does morality play a role in the creation of law?” “What is the connection between law and politics? How might one influence the other?” This course is meant to be an in-depth analysis of the complex relationships between all three subjects, and it acts as a fundamental course within the proposed major.

4. Psych 249: Social Psychology (Pre-rec: Psych 125) Fall 2019
   • Social Psychology seeks to help the student gain a basic understanding of how people think, and act the way they do. This course explores the questions of why people choose to help others, and why others do not, the role emotions play in making decisions, and how these emotions may interfere with making correct, and ethical decisions. It seeks to find the connection between the way people in a society think, and how that influences decisions and choices.

5. Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Pre-rec: Psych 125) Fall 2020

• I/O psychology applies psychological facts and principles to the problems that permeate business and industry. Topics include organizational structure, personnel management, employee-supervisor relationships, job satisfaction and motivation, communication and leadership. The course explores the intersections between motivations for decisions and a corporate setting.

Law and Legal Oriented Courses: Courses that fall within this subcategory focus heavily on the practice and understanding of law in different settings. These courses serve to provide the student with a strong basis of knowledge in the workings of law, practice in interpreting, as well as exposure to different types of legal practice. After completing these courses, the student will be able to understand how the law is implemented, and understand all the different lenses used to interpret and execute those laws.

6. PSCI 272: American Constitutional Law (Pre-Rec: BTS-T) Fall 2018
   • Constitutional law helps build a foundation for understanding how the laws of the United States were created, and how they have been reinterpreted since their creation. This class emphasizes the idea that political issues and legal issues must be ruled on separately, without one influencing the other. In which case, how do you separate ethical ideas from political or legal, that must all be weighed and ruled on separately. Law is a fluid subject, likely to be interpreted differently by people, depending on the type of lens they are implementing. This course provides an overview of how law is enforced in the federal sense. In order to understand the laws within a smaller corporation, understanding the supreme laws that govern the land is a crucial first step.

7. PSCI 285: International Law (Pre-Rec: None) Spring 2019
   • The practice of law is not confined to the United States, but rather extends across international borders and geographic lines. So too does management and ethics. Understanding how international laws can affect business interactions is necessary when combining business with law. It serves to broaden my horizons, exploring the differences between laws in the United States and outside our borders, and helps gain a preliminary understanding of how law is practiced in different countries and cultures.

8. MGMT 252: Legal Aspects of Business (Pre-Rec: Sophomore or above) Spring 2019
   • Legal Aspects of business seeks to help students gain understanding of how the legal system is incorporated in every type of business function. This class provides an emphasis on the correlation and connection between law and business, helping to solidify the ties between business interactions and legal practice.

Understanding Economics and Management: These courses serve to expand and strengthen the student’s knowledge in economics and the management of businesses. Courses focus on the impact the economy as a whole can have on businesses, individually or collectively, how companies and businesses are structured and run, as well as how choices are made within the company. By understanding the connection between the economy and the structure of businesses, students will have the opportunity to explore how and when decisions are made in a company, and what effects the ethics of these choices.

9. MGMT 251: Management (Pre-Rec: Sophomore or above) Fall 2018
   • This management course serves as an introduction to the business world. By gaining basic knowledge and understanding on how to manage a business as well as yourself in the business world, the skills and knowledge gained in this class are invaluable when it comes time to enter the business sector of the economy. It provides an overall understanding of how businesses run, individual roles within a business, and the most effective ways to manage both employees and situations that will arise.

10. MGMT 225: Principles of Accounting (Pre-Rec: None) Fall 2019
    • Financing is an essential part to every business. To learn how ethics play a role in business, you must first understand how the business is run, what factors allow it to function and thrive. Finance and law are intertwined and in order to understand how one effects the other, you must first understand how they function independently. This course covers the basics of the four financial statements, and how they are created and analyzed.

11. MGMT 383: Management Policy and Strategy (Pre-Rec: MGMT 251) Spring 2020
    • This course explores advanced topics in management studies, such as organizational and strategic problems in a business setting, as well as encouraging students to think critically and develop planning and decision making skills. These are crucial in any business or legal setting, and crucial to learn and gain a working understanding of how to solve problems that come up in the business world.

12. Econ 378: Comparative Economic Analysis of Legal Systems (Pre-Rec: Econ 262, 263) Spring 2021

• This class uses economic analysis to understand the rationale for different legal systems and their relative success or failure. The objective of this course is to deepen students’ understanding of the basic economic principles used to analyze legal institutions and to teach them how to apply economic concepts to different legal systems. This course will broaden my understanding of why legal systems are set up the way they are, and provide a legal context in which to apply specific legal ideas and theories.

Senior Project: The Senior project is meant to act as a “capstone” to the major, effectively combining skills and knowledge learned through all the preceding course work. The senior project combines concepts, ideas, and skills learned to create a cohesive project meant to demonstrate the knowledge the student has gained over the course of the major.

• The senior project is intended to be an integration of information learned in all the previous classes, applied to a specific scenario or case. The project would be narrowly focused on one specific topic, while integrating skills and information learned in all the preceding courses.