An overview of the teaching

For many, the term "business ethics" is a contradiction in terms: after all, the economy is considered to be the area in which moral action and adherence to normative guidelines are at best irrelevant, but generally conflict with the realisation of personal and corporate goals.

In contrast, we take the view that ethics and economics are not opposites, but complement each other. This happens neither by subordinating the economic sphere to the political, nor by redefining economics as "better ethics". The task of economic ethics is rather to integrate ethical norms into the economic paradigm in a coherent manner. Economic efficiency is thus a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for a fair economic and social order.

A special task of the professorship is to introduce the economic approach into the ethical conception of Catholic social teaching. Here the task is to analyze the implications of the social principles of "personality", "solidarity" and "subsidiarity" in the theory of justice and to apply these principles to social and corporate policy issues.

Bachelor courses

Economic and Business Ethics (Winter Term)

Course type  | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | None

Creditable for | Compulsory

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer

Language | German

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

Quantitative Ethics: Poverty and Inquality Research (Winter Term)**

Course type | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | 20

Creditable for | Minor Business Ethics

 

Lecturer: Dr. Maximilian Sommer

Language | English

Social Market Economy (Winter Term)**

Course type | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | 20

Creditable for | Compulsory Election

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer 

Language | English

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

Labour Economics (Summer Term)

Course type | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | 20

Creditable for | Compulsory Election

 

Lecturer: Dr. Maximilian Sommer

Language | English

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

Experimental Economic Ethics (Summer Term)

Course type | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | 25

Creditable for | Compulsory Election

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer/Dipl-Kfm. Jakob Schäuble

Language | German

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

Social Policy (Summer Term)

Course type  | Lecture (4 weekly hours / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | None

Creditable for | Compulsory Election

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer

Language | German

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

 

Case Studies in Business Ethics*

Course type | vhb_Seminar (online-based / 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | None

Creditable for | Compulsory Election

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer

Language | German

 

Materials: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

* These courses are offered within the framework of the Virtual University Bavaria (VHB). Please inform yourself in time about the exact schedule of these courses. 

** These courses are offered within the International Fall Term. These courses are therefore only offered in the first half of the winter semester and are already finished in December.

Master Courses

Advanced Economic Ethics

Course type | Seminar (2 weekly hours/ 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | 20

Creditable for | Ethics Compulsory Module

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer

Language | English

 

Materialien: (ILIAS)

Detailed course information: (KUcampus)

PhD courses

Epistemology and ethics of science

Course type | Seminar (2 weekly hours/ 5 ECTS)

Restriction of participants | None

Creditable for | Structured PhD program

 

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Jörg Althammer

Language | German

Thesis

The Chair of Economic Ethics and Social Policy offers students the possibility at any time to write their

  • Bachelor thesis or
  • Master Thesis

in the field of business ethics and social policy. The necessary proseminar does not have to be taken at our chair.

Further information can be found here.

If you are interested in writing your thesis, please contact Mr. Jakob Schäuble.

Jakob Schäuble
Jakob Schäuble M.Sc.
Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate
Building Hauptbau  |  Room: HB-222