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ETHC 301 Business Ethics
Credits: 3 (3,0,0)
This course examines business ethics and their relationship to the social, political, and
business environments. The course is built on two major themes; business ethics and
corporate social responsibility. Give and take discussions in the class allow nuanced analyses
and spirited critiques of environmental and societal problems as they relate to business and
direct student attention to the strong need for sound business ethics in addressing business,
environmental, and social issues. A major goal of the course is to provide students with a set
of parameters to guide ethical decision making skills.

ETHC 303 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING
Credits: 3(3,0,0) Prerequisite: CS 210
The course concentrates on the theory and practice of computer and information ethics. It
covers the basics of ethical decision-making, and emphasizes group work and presentations.
Topics studied in the course include risk and reliability, privacy, info-war, crime, access,
business ethics, copyright, patents, and more.

ETHC 305 ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING
Credits: 2 (2,0,0) Prerequisite: Junior Level standing
The course discusses why ethics are important to the Engineering profession, gives an overview
of professional codes of ethics, describes the rules of professional conduct, locates ethics in
the social matrix, underscores the importance of environmental issues, catalogs the value of
professional and technical societies in maintaining ethical standards, and provides guidelines
for making value-laden decisions as engineers and citizens.

ETHC 351 LEGAL ETHICS
Credits:3 (3-0-0) Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the professional codes of conduct and law
dealing with the ethical obligations of members of the legal profession. The subjects to be
covered include: the regulation of lawyer and legal assistant conduct, confidentiality, conflicts
of interest, the handling of client funds, advertising, free-lancing and the unauthorized practice
of law, disciplinary proceedings and malpractice.

EUR 101 EUROPEAN LANGUAGE I
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Departmental Approval
The course is an elementary course in a major European language. Students learn basic
vocabulary and grammar in discourse through listening, speaking, reading and writing. The
object is on developing basic communicative ability through short and varied discourse.

EUR 102 EUROPEAN LANGUAGE II
Credits: 3 (3,0,0) Prerequisite: Departmental Approval
This course builds on what was learned in EUR 101. Vocabulary range grows and grammatical
competency improves as practice their language skills in situational and topic-based discourse
units. Students read short simplified stories and retell them orally and in writing.