PHIL 32900 - Foundations Of Professional Ethics

Investigates conceptions of professions and their relationship to society. Explores the relationship between ethics for professionals and the ethics of private citizens. Addresses such topics as privacy, confidentiality, whistle-blowing, and conflicts of interest as they exist in fiduciary relationships. Identifies the philosophical implications of Codes of Ethics of various professions.

Cr 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Expand knowledge base to include the nature of a profession.
2. Expand knowledge base to include the roots of professional (as opposed to personal) ethics.
3. Expand knowledge base to include the conflicts-of-interest most commonly encountered by professionals.
4. Learn to revise and edit written work and move from a low stakes writing assignments to a formal paper.
5. Learn to write an analytical paper in which they make a claim, support that claim, and defend it from likely challenges.
6. Develop the ability to provide reasons in support of and in opposition to a moral claim.