Ethics in Agribusiness
University:
South Dakota State University 
Course Number:
AGEC 457
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $420 per credit
Start/End Dates:
May 31, 2022 - August 05, 2022
Overview
Course Description
Ethical behavior is a crucial issue in American business. Understanding ethics is especially timely for students in agribusiness and agricultural sciences given claims of marketing unhealthy foods, the development of genetically-modified organisms, controversy over hiring undocumented workers, and the consolidation of agriculture into industrial production facilities. Students are taught ethical theories and frameworks used to discuss general ethical questions such as death, theft, and lying, followed by the more specific agribusiness issues mentioned above. Students will formulate their own opinions about these issues, recognize and understand the opinions of others, and be able to accurately and adequately communicate those opinions.
Contacts
Instructor
Tom Clark
thomas.clark@sdstate.edu
Campus Coordinator
For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Learn MoreTextbooks
Business Ethics:Decision Making for Personal &Social Responsibility (2021)
Hartman, L., DesJardins.J., MacDonald, C.
Edition: 5th Edition
ISBN: 978-1-260-26049-6
Publisher: New York: McGraw-Hill Education
Course Access
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class, the SDSU campus coordinator, Sarah (Heewon) Kim, will email course access information to visiting students.
Your username and password for D2L will be the same when you first log in. For example, if your name is MaryJo McCullough, then your username will be MaryJo.McCullough and your password will be MaryJo.McCullough. Usernames and passwords are case sensitive and you will be required to change your password once you have logged in.
If you have trouble completing any of the steps above, forget your password, or have any questions, please contact Sarah at idea.sdsuprograms@sdstate.edu or 605-688-6988 for assistance.
Exam Proctor
This course does not require an exam proctor.
Synchronous Components
This course does not include synchronous components.
