Corporate social responsibility: necessity to integrate into educational programs of economists and lawyers

The purpose of the study is to show the necessity to integrate the Corporate Social Responsibility course into the educational process. The methodological basis of the study are such methods of scientific knowledge as a historical method, method of logical unity of analysis and synthesis, systematic method, and others. The questions of necessity to reflect CSR in educational programs of economists training programs are discussed. The author substantiates the reasons for the growing interest in this issue. A review of relevant practices in the field of CSR knowledge dissemination is given. It was found that the introduction of the proposed educational product in the learning process allows to strengthen main vocational training programs in many areas of training, to improve their efficiency, to have a significant impact on improving the quality of students’ knowledge, and contribute to the development and the formation of a fundamentally new professional competencies.