Bachelor of Behavioural Science - Postsecondary Education Quality ...

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Course Title
Society
POLS 212
The Good Life: A
Philosophic
Investigation
PHIL 201
The Imagination:
Self and Society
ENGL 103
Calendar Course Description
from the moral and social obligations imposed on other
institutions. The maximization of profits for shareholders has
long been seen as the only appropriate object for corporations.
Recently, however, this view has been challenged. A growing
movement insists that corporations ought to subordinate the
pursuit of profit to the fulfilment of social responsibilities. This
course explores how socially responsible corporations should
conduct their business affairs. The course begins by laying out
the general principles of corporate social responsibility, while
identifying the parties, known as stakeholders, whose interests
corporations ought to heed. Afterwards, the course proceeds
through each of the stakeholders, analyzing the particular
challenges each pose to the socially responsible corporation. At
the end of the course, a framework for the comprehensive social
evaluation of corporations is developed in the form of a social
audit.
Why have you chosen to study at Humber College this year Do
you think that doing so will make you more employable and
therefore increase your income Are you hoping to satisfy your
intellectual curiosity or develop new skills Do you hope that
these skills will help you to make a difference in the lives of
others Or is school simply a good way to meet new friends and
romantic partners
If you answered ‗yes‘ to any of the above, you already have
some ideas about ―the good life‖ –you have some thoughts, that
is, on what sort of things make our lives as good as they can
be. Rather than assuming that we already know what
ingredients go into making ―the good life,‖ however, we will take
a big step backwards in this course in order to study a broad
range of thinkers as each attempts to find the key to the good
life. For some, it will be found in the happiness of pleasurable
experiences (Epicurus, Fischer, and Montaigne). For others, it
will found in overcoming physical, psychological, or political
obstacles to happiness (Marx, Freud, Sacks). For Rousseau,
the good life consists in a tranquil celebration of nature; for
Nietzsche and Emerson, in artistic individualism; and for Plato,
in wisdom and knowledge. Our task will be to determine if any of
these approaches –alone or in combination –can offer us any
guidance as we ourselves seek to achieve ―the good life.‖
This course is an elective for students in Humber degree
programs. It is designed to develop students‘ reading, writing,
and critical skills through understanding, discussing, and writing
about a variety of non-fiction essays drawn from different
academic disciplines and focused on the theme of the
imagination. Its main objectives are to develop students‘ critical
skills and academic writing abilities by 1) encouraging analytical
depth in textual analysis and 2) developing students‘ breadth of
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