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Yeah. Hello, everyone I wanted to give you an overview

of what we're going to be doing in this class.

And so I've kind of divided up by activities and

outcomes that we're going to be covering.

So let me just start with the overview.

And so an overview of this course.

We're going to dig into terms terms terms chapter one

is all about terms.

Then we're going to get into a section that's going

to be about ethical theory, and then we're going to

get into a section that's about application.

Yeah, so I talked about theory just now, and so

what is theory?

It's just a framework for how we make ethical decisions.

And there are different frameworks in this course, two.

So, some examples of these frameworks are weighing the pros

and cons, maybe that's how you make an ethical decision.

What will happen if I do this, what will happen

if I don't do it.

Um We also make ethical decisions by determining what's good

for us um or what's good for others.

We also make ethical decisions by what is our duty

like. We may not want to do it, but there's

some kind of were duty bound to do it.

What does the universe tell us?

Um is correct?

And what do the moral rules tell us?

So, those are just some examples of these frameworks which

we're going to call ethical theories in this class.

Mhm. We're also going to use the case study approach

to do this.

So this kind of brings life into the class.

Can we look at real life examples.

So how are we going to do this?

Uh Students will find current event articles in order to

um show something that's happening in the news and then

they're going to look at it through the lens of

those frameworks or ethical theories and they're going to apply

it. What would be the right thing according to duty

versus what's good for the individual?

That's an example, will also be looking at people who

show moral courage doing the right thing, even when it's

very difficult.

Uh we'll look at the movie Gandhi.

Um there will be a final written assignment a ripped

from the headlines, which means you will kind of do

a deeper dive into a ethical topic that is currently

in the news.

And then of course there's also examples of real life

events in the textbook.

So when we say see case study approach in the

course, um that is what it means and we're going

to do that through a variety of ways.

So what kind of assignments are we having in this

class? Let's take a look.

Um of course we're going to have the foreign post,

the foreign eight.

It means you need to post over four different days

and you need to have at least eight posts and

they need to be related posts.

It means they need to say something that's substantive.

So just because you post does it mean that it

will get rated as related is the terminology that we

use and so really say something and I'll have information

on that later.

We also have quizzes, as I mentioned, the current events

assignments and then some written assignments.

So student learning outcomes, what I hope that you'll get

out of this class is the student will be able

to analyze numerous ethical theories.

Again, frameworks.

The students will analyze ethical decision making by using a

case study approach.

We talked about how we're going to find those case

studies. The students examine how ethics affect us personally and

socially. Um the student will apply various methods of moral

decision making and justify decisions made and you'll be able

to explain an ethical issue in writing.

So I hope that this gives you a good overview

of what it is that we're going to be doing

in this class.

So I look forward to the semester.

I hope you do too.

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