Unit Code: ETH501

Unit Name: Intermediate Ethics and Governance

Description: This course provides students with an understanding of ethics, ethical behavior and practice which equips them with skills and guidelines for making ethical judgments and decisions. It provides an overview of values, norms and laws governing human behavior in different social contexts, considers a range of ethics philosophies and theories and looks at the application of ethics in a range of contexts, including commerce, industry and public life.

Learning Target Outcomes: On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Identify and act on ethical concerns regarding matters of right and wrong in everyday life situations and social behaviours. 2. Explain, analyse, criticize and evaluate popular positions on contemporary ethical controversies and rationally justify one’s own position on such matters 3. Apply individual theories to a wide variety of case studies in relation to contemporary social challenges to religion, the environment, human rights, business, law and politics. 4. Identify the key strengths and weaknesses of key ethical theories, provide a basic explanation for the key methodological differences between major theoretical approaches to ethics and demonstrate how they may disagree over what is right and wrong in various contexts. 5. Identify and explain ethical issues within each student’s disciplinary focus and elaborate upon different approaches/responses to these ethical issues. 6. Communicate effectively verbally and in writing one’s own personal ethics on a variety of social issues.

Prerequisite: The student must have passed FSLC, have fluency in English and met MQR for program enrolled in.

Prerequisite Sentence: The student must have passed FSLC, have fluency in English and met MQR for programme enrolled in.

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 1,2