Intended Learning Outcomes
Intended Learning Outcomes
The course focuses on corporations’ role in society and on the specific ways in which this role changes. The main purpose is to develop an understanding of the complexity of the interaction between business and This is a translation of the Swedish original society and the impact this complexity has on corporations’ role and responsibility. Upon completion of the course, students should be able to: Knowledge and understanding.
1. Define, describe and explain the changes of business’ role in society, the drivers of these changes, and their implications for business, society, and the natural environment.
Skills and abilities
2. Conduct a theoretically grounded problematization and analysis of corporations’ role in a globalizing world.
3. Show accuracy and stringency in scientific approaches, argumentation and formalities. Judgment and approach.
4. Critically assess the limitations of so-called mainstream approaches to corporations’ role and responsibility in a globalizing world.
5. Develop an understanding of political perspectives on business and on this basis critically evaluate the role and responsibility of business in a globalizing world.