57607 Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
6cp; face to face tutorials (week 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12); optional drop-in consultation (week 11); 2.5-hour workshop on week 4 (via Zoom); mix of online prerecorded and live lectures, by SC and industry experts (week 1 to 9) (Online live lectures (week 5, 8); pre-recorded lectures (week 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9))There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Anti-requisite(s): 57210 Managing Public Communication AND 57807 Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability
Core
Postgraduate
Description
In the modern world, communications professionals have an increasing role to play in their employers’ adherence to ethical decision making and socially responsible practices that make our broad society, community, and environment sustainable in the long term. By critically analysing and applying different ethical perspectives to selected case studies, students learn the significance of ethics in an organisation’s communication practices. In addition, they investigate the difference between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability. Students demonstrate how an organisation can retain its social licence to operate by adapting to changing stakeholder expectations around sustainability.
This subject helps navigate the ethical landscape of corporate communications and understand the importance of socially responsible practices for long-term sustainability. Students learn to critically assess and apply ethical frameworks to real-world scenarios. Through case studies, they explore how organisations maintain their social licence by aligning with evolving stakeholder expectations on sustainability.
Typical availability
Autumn session, City campus
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