Spring 2027

Ethics in Business

Ethics in Business examines case studies of moral issues in business and the types or reasons appealed to for their settlement.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Casey Rufener

One student reported there was no homework, allowing them to focus on lecture content, while another described the two exams as pretty easy.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe some of the key questions related to business ethics.

  • Explain some of the positions that philosophers have defended related to business ethics.

  • Incorporate insights from philosophy within one's life, as a person who faces moral challenges related to business every day.

Source: UW Guide

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing or 3 Credits in PHILOS

    • Sophomore standing
    • 3 Credits in PHILOS
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PHILOS 243

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  • Any of
    • Sophomore standing
    • 3 Credits in PHILOS

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

AARON YARMEL is recorded teaching in Spring 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ARUN BAXTER is recorded teaching in Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

CASEY RUFENER is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HUBERT MARCINIEC is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

PAUL KELLY is recorded teaching in Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1380
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 690
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 230
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 230
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 230
DIS 321Classroom Instruction0 / 230
DIS 322Classroom Instruction0 / 230
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DIS 305Classroom Instruction0 / 230
DIS 306Classroom Instruction0 / 230
LEC 003Classroom Instruction0 / 00
DIS 331Classroom Instruction0 / 00
DIS 332Classroom Instruction0 / 00
DIS 333Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Casey Rufener

Past students found Casey Rufener’s lectures interesting and thought-provoking, with one noting they were so engaging that they wanted to retake more philosophy courses with him.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.85 GPA, 95.2% A/AB (n=250 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.94 GPA, 97.0% A/AB (n=203 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.57 GPA, 82.1% A/AB (n=279 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Casey Rufener

One student reported there was no homework, allowing them to focus on lecture content, while another described the two exams as pretty easy.

Past student reviews · Casey Rufener

While Casey Rufener was interactive and used real-world examples, one student felt he could lose focus or become too passionate, steering classroom opinions to match his own.

Topics

  • Moral issues in business
  • Reasons appealed to for settling moral issues
  • Philosophical positions on business ethics

Skills

  • Describing key questions related to business ethics
  • Explaining philosophical positions on business ethics
  • Incorporating philosophical insights into daily business moral challenges

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

7 earlier forecasts · 0.14 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
PHILOS 243 · Spring 2027

Ethics in Business

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Model & dataset provenance 
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