Oral Presentation on Team Project, weighted at 30%
2000 word Team Report, weighted at 70%

The module aims to encourage students to critically engage in current debates about the role of business in addressing global challenges.
Specifically, it will provide them with a basic grounding in the main theoretical concepts that underpin the notions of sustainability and CSR as well as the practical responses of business.
These concepts will be illustrated with real world case studies that illustrate best practice and highlight the risks when companies get it 'wrong'.
Students will then bring together these concepts and practical examples to critically evaluate the evolving role of business in society.

1. DEMONSTRATE A CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)
Knowledge & Understanding

2. UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES (E.G. POVERTY, CLIMATE CHANGE) ON BUSINESS AND EVALUATE HOW BUSINESS CAN HELP ADDRESS THEM
Analysis
Problem Solving

3. APPLY UNDERLYING CONCEPTS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND CSR TO DIVERSE INDUSTRIES WITHIN A GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Application

The module will be delivered via lectures and tutorials. Students will be expected to participate actively in both lectures and tutorials.
Learning support material will be provided via the Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment.

Library, internet.

FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ONLY

Blowfield M and Murray A. (2008) Corporate Responsibility: A critical introduction. (Oxford: OUP) ISBN 978-0199209095
DesJardins J. (2007) Business, ethics, and the environment: Imagining a sustainable future. (Upper Saddle River: Pearson) ISBN 978-0131891746
Elkington J. (1999) Cannibals with forks: The triple bottom line of 21st century business. (Oxford: Capstone) ISBN 978-0865713925