Most business schools offer ethics courses, but a survey suggests that many students who take them are not paying close attention.

Many states, however, require that the ethics course include a review of that state's specific rules for professional practice.

Generally, ethics courses are not required, but student interest seems to be on the rise.

Some schools have added ethics courses in the wake of the scandals.

Ethical Aspects shares several features with ethics courses at other leading business schools.

Some elite schools, like Harvard, have started requiring ethics courses this year.

But what this ethics course can do is sensitize the students to conflicts of interest in business decisions they may never have considered.

He said it took an acrimonious debate among faculty members to get them to agree to the ethics course.

This year the ethics course has attracted 42 students.

He also taught ethics courses in several African nations and other countries around the world.