Course

Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
OOSL-0123
Version:
1
Organization's ID:
PHIL102
Organization:
Location:
Online
Length:
Self-paced over 14 weeks (75 hours)
Minimum Passing Score:
70
ACE Credit Recommendation Period:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Philosophy
Description

Objective:

Ethics is the human exercise of ordering, questioning, and investigating moral rules. According to philosopher Nina Rosenstand, ethics “questions and justifies the rules we live by, and, if ethics can find no rational justification for those rules, it may ask us to abandon them.” Students in the course will learn established approaches within ethics and will directly participate in the human exercise of ordering, questioning, and investigating moral rules through original ethical analysis. Applied ethics, citizenship, and global diversity are emphasized in the curriculum.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate awareness of and ability to recognize ethical thinking
  • Demonstrate knowledge of philosophical doctrines around ethics
  • Develop and demonstrate competency in academic standards for the humanities
  • Participate in global citizenship
  • Develop competency in global philosophical models
  • Perform applied ethics through the practice of academic integrity within academic writing
  • Perform applied ethics through the development of original ethical analyses

General Topics:

  • Checkpoint 1: Thinking About Values Checkpoint 2: Learning Moral Lessons from Stories Checkpoint 3: Ethical Relativism Checkpoint 4: Myself or Others? Checkpoint 5: Using Your Reason Checkpoint 6: Personhood, Rights, and Justice Checkpoint 7: Virtue Ethics from Philosophy Checkpoint 8: Virtue Ethics and Authenticity Checkpoint 9: Case Studies in Virtue Checkpoint 10: Different Gender, Different Ethics? Checkpoint 11: Applied Ethics
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers
Supplemental Materials
Equivalencies