Assessing the Impact of a Professional Ethics Course: Changes in Value Preferences and Cognitive Moral
Reasoning for Undergraduate Business and Pharmacy Students

James Weber

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Assessing the Impact of a Professional Ethics Course: Changes in Value Preferences and Cognitive Moral Reasoning for Undergraduate Business and Pharmacy Students

James Weber

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University, USA

Volume 21: 2024 pp. 35-46: ABSTRACT

This research assessed the impact of the participants’ personal value orientation preferences and level of principled moral reasoning when comparing undergraduate business students with undergraduate pharmacy students before and after students completed a professional ethics course. Overall there was little significant change in the students’ value orientations and principled moral reasoning after completing a professional ethics course, yet some important findings emerged when comparing business to pharmacy students.
Keywords: course impact, value preferences, principled moral reasoning, business students, pharmacy students