CHB5207 Ethical Issues in Professional Life
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Handbook entry- a brief description of the subject can be found in the handbook entry. The handbook also provides information about the unit leader, the semester and mode in which the unit is available, the contact hours and the assessment requirements.
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MUSO site - there is a WebCT site for this unit where assessment tasks, lecture notes and other unit resources will be posted. Once enrolled, students taking this unit are advised to check the WebCT site regularly.
About this Subject:
On successful completion of this subject, students should understand how each of three major ethical theories characteristically approaches issues which commonly arise in professional life, along with some important distinguishing features of professionals, and the ethical obligations involved in being a professional. Students should also have acquired the skills to reflect upon and critically examine the goals of their chosen profession, analyse and evaluate certain ethical issues which arise in their own profession by taking a broader perspective, and seeing how that perspective arises out of parallel issues in other professions.
Recommended Texts:
- Arthur Applbaum, Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1999.
- Joan C. Callahan (ed.), Ethical Issues in Professional Life, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Alan Goldman, The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics, Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
- Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking, Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (pbk).