Using the Ethics Bowl to Integrate Ethics into the Business and Professional Curriculum

Abstract

This course has been designed to pull together the modules published in Connexions by this author for the purpose of showing different aspects of the Ethics Bowl competition, and how it can be used to teach practical and professional ethics. The Ethics Bowl concept comes from Robert Ladenson of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Through the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics, the Ethics Bowl competition has been carried out nationally for well over a decade and has expanded beyond the national competition to include regional activities. This course explores the Ethics Bowl as the capstone activity for courses in business and engineering ethics as well as an activity for mainstream business administration courses such as the Environment of the Organization, a course required for over 30 years in the College of Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico ad Mayaguez. This course and its modules have been developed as a part of the EAC Toolkit funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF SES 0551779.