CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Cynthia Flynn/SUNY
Last modified by: Laura Wait/SUNY
Composed: 07/29/2005 04:03 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 04/22/2016
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 222242 ESC 2.0 Course number: PHIL-2015 PHIL-2015IA Short Introduction to Ethics 2 cr

Name: Introduction to Ethics (2cr)
Datatel Title: (30char) Introduction to Ethics (2cr)

Area Coordinator: Eric Ball Department Code: 10CU Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: LOWER Credits: 2 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: p
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1
First Term Offered: 2006SP (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes: Changed from Intro to Ethics to Introduction to Ethics (2cr) effective fall '16. Catalog updated 4/22/16 LWait
AC Changes: NOTE: Changed from fully meeting Gen Ed to partially meeting effective fall 2014
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Description: This introductory fifteen-week, two-credit course is designed to prepare students for more advanced studies in ethics in their respective field or profession. Through common readings and active learning centered on a semester-long individually-designed project in the context of that reading, this course exposes students to some of the basic categories and frameworks that ethicists use and provides opportunities for students to pursue their own curiosity regarding ethics as academic subject matter, whether in terms of practical contemporary ethical issues or abstract analysis and articulation of ethical assumptions, theories, and decision-making processes. It aims more than anything to help students think and communicate about ethical problems in a well-reasoned and critical manner, and to prepare them for further studies of ethics.

Students will learn to identify when and where ethical claims or assumptions are being made in texts and discussions, explicitly and implicitly. Students will learn to identify where ethical claims or ethical assumptions are supported (or not) by reasoned arguments, to supply their own reasoned arguments, and in many cases to provide a well-reasoned counter-argument to any given ethical argument. Finally, students will learn to describe in their own words examples of the kinds of questions that ethicists might ask, some of the fundamental issues that arise in ethical decision-making, and connections between ethics and other areas such as politics, culture, or civic engagement.

NOTE: Students should not take both the 4-credit and the 2-credit courses titled Introduction to Ethics as these overlap. Students who do not plan to continue with any further studies of ethics are encouraged to consider taking the 4-credit Introduction to Ethics course instead of this one.

This course partially meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.

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Major Course Area
Communications Humanities and Cultural Studies		Minor Course Area
Cultural Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies		SLN Disciplines
Philosophy
Additional Course Requirements
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Meets General Education Requirement

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Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^p~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities