Semester	Fall Semester, 2025
Department	Selective courses of p.h.d level,College of Commerce
Course Name	Academic Ethics
Instructor	SHIU YUNG-MING
Credit	1.0
Course Type	Required
Prerequisite

Course Objective

Course Description

Course Schedule

Schedule

Day 1: September 13, Saturday

9:00 – 9:10	Preparation	Section
9:10 – 10:40 [90 minutes]	Fundamentals of business ethics, CSR, ESG and sustainable development (1) (Prof. Yung Ming Shiu)	A
10:40 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 12:10 [70 minutes]	Fundamentals of business ethics, CSR, ESG and sustainable development (2) (Prof. Yung Ming Shiu)	A
12:10 – 13:40	Lunch break
13:40 – 14:20 [40 minutes]	Group discussion for Case #1 (Case No: IVEY 908M79-PDF-ENG) Lee and Li, Attorneys-at-Law and the Embezzlement of NT$3 Billion	B
14:20 – 15:50 [90 minutes]	Case # 1 (Professor Yung Ming Shiu)	B
15:50 – 16:10	Break
16:10 – 16:50 [40 minutes]	Group discussion for Case #2 (Case No.: Harvard/INSEAD IN1884-PDF-ENG) Fairphone 3: Commercializing Radical Sustainability	C
16:50 – 18:20 [90 minutes]	Case # 2 (Professor Yu-Chia Ko )	C

Day 2: September 14, Sunday

9:00 – 9:10	Preparation	Section
9:10 – 9:40 [30 minutes]	Group discussion for Case #3 (HBR Reprint 97307) The parable of the Sadhu
9:40 – 11:20 [100 minutes]	Case # 3 (Professor Ling-Tai Lynette Chou)	D
11:20 – 11:40	Break
11:40 – 12:10 [30 minutes]	Sustainability and ESG (Professor Carol Lin)
12:10 – 13:40	Lunch break
13:40 – 15:10 [90 minutes]	Group activity: sustainability value ranking & presentation (Professor Carol Lin)	E
15:10 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 16:10 [40 minutes]	Group discussion for Case #4 (Case no.: IVEY 908M11) Mattel and the Toy Recalls (B)	F
16:10 – 17:40 [90 minutes]	Case # 4 (Professor Sonia Lo)	F
9/14-9/30	Online academic / research ethics exam

Teaching Methods

Teaching Assistant

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Requirement/Grading

Attendance: 30% (each section, CAA’s record)

Participation: 30% (each section, CAA’s record)

Values Ranking Presentation: 20% (Prof. Carol Lin)

Reflection write-up: 20% (Days 1 and 2, Prof. Shiu)

Online academic / research ethics exam: Pass

Grading details:

Attendance: 30% (each section, course assistant’s record)

Per section, 3 points will be deducted whenever students show up late or depart early.

7 points will be deducted when students miss/skip one section (lecture or case discussion).

Participation: 30% (lecture + case discussion, course assistant’s record)

Course assistant will record the number/frequency of class discussion per student per section. The maximum number of participations per student per section is five times. If you have reached sharing opinion five times per section, please kindly give the chance of expression to other students.

Values ranking presentation: 20% (Prof. Lin)

Grading will be based on values ranking presentation (team).

Reflection write-up: 20% (Day 1 + Day 2, Prof. Shiu)

Students must submit one-page (12 fonts, single space) write-up to document their learning reflection on each day’s section. The due for each day’s write-up is 11:59 PM on that day. Please upload the write-up with name and student ID in a PDF file to Moodle (e-learning platform). Grade will be negatively affected for late submission. Please see the last page for the rubric for reflection write-up.

Online academic / research ethics exam: PASS

Students must take online research ethics courses equal to 6 credit hours at AREE website and take the online exam as a final exam before the end of September, 2025. Students must provide the certificate to Ms. June Lin, Office of College of Commerce.

*AREE: https://ethics.moe.edu.tw/

*Please see the appendix for the instruction for the AREE online courses/exam.

*Contact of Ms. June Lin: ychun@nccu.edu.tw

Textbook & Reference

Textbook is not required. Students need to purchase 4 cases.

Students need to read the cases and try to answer the questions before the class.

Urls about Course

AREE: https://ethics.moe.edu.tw

Attachment

2025_Academic Ethics_NEW.pdf