PER4013 - Ethical Foundations

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module will introduce you to key/foundational concepts in the study of ethics that you can build on and use throughout the rest of your degree programme. A range of ethical theories will be critically analysed and discussed in terms of their merits and demerits for finding moral truth.Ethical theories we may discuss include utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, Rossian prima facie duties, contractarianism, virtue ethics, and ethical egoism amongst others.

This module will culminate in a two-week Professional Challenge Project or a two-week work placement at the end of the module. You will have the chance to opt for which path you want to take during the module. Guidance regarding the options will be included in the Module Handbook and supported by briefings at the beginning of Semester 2.

Some of you may be able to secure a short work placement or could engage in volunteering in a relevant sector that could also provide evidence towards the final component. Both pathways will allow you to apply your professional skills in a real-world context.

Learning and Teaching Information:

The lectures will introduce students to key ethical theories and the seminars will enable students to engage in group work, directed tasks for learning, as well as student-led learning both individually and with their peers.

You will be taught using LTU’s multimodal approach to teaching. Your learning will be divided into three stages:

Preparation: You will be given clear tasks to support you in preparing for live, in-person teaching. This may include watching a short, pre-recorded lecture (or other open educational resource), reading a paper or text chapter, finding resources to discuss with your peers in class, reading and commenting on a paper or preparing other material for use in class. Your Module Tutor will give you information to help you understand why you are completing an activity and how this will be built on during live, in-person teaching.

Live: All your live, in-person teaching will be designed around active learning, providing you with valuable opportunities to build on preparation tasks and interact with staff and peers, as well as helping you to deepen your understanding, apply knowledge and surface any misunderstandings.

Post: Follow-up activities will include clear opportunities for you to check understanding and apply your learning to a new situation or context. These activities will also be a source of feedback for staff that will inform subsequent sessions.

Lectures
Hours: 24
Intended Group Size: 30

Seminars
Hours: 24
Intended Group Size: 30

Professional Challenge Project or Work Placement
Hours: 20 (minimum)

Guided independent study
Hours: 232

Further details relating to assessment
Students will be given the opportunity to discuss their assessment in depth in the assessment clinics offered within the module structure. Students will also be given the opportunity to submit a draft plan of the assessment to the module tutor in order to gain formative feedback.

Please note that students can also negotiate the topics oftheiressays and presentations as long as this isdiscussedwith the module tutor and still enables students to meet the Level Learning Outcomes. The presentation may be done in pairs, e.g. as a debate.

This module will culminate in a two-week Professional Challenge Project or a two-week work placement. Students will have the chance to opt for which path they want to take during the course of the module. Guidance regarding the options will be included in the Module Handbook and supported by briefings at the beginning of Semester 2.

Students do not have to pass all of the individual components with the exception of the Professional Challenge Project or Work Placement. A pass in the Professional Challenge Project will be achieved through participation in key tasks throughout the project. A pass in the work placement will include input from the employer. During the Professional Challenge Project or Placement, students will complete a Reflective Statement outlining their learning from the project /placement.

Professional Challenge Project / Work Placement must be passed in accordance with University regulations.

Assessment:

001 Presentation; 10 minutes; end of semester 1 40%
002 Essay; 2,500 words; end of semester 2 45%
003 Professional challenge or placement; 20 hours minimum; end of semester 2 professional development block %
004 Reflective statement; 1,500 words; end of semester 2; professional development block 15%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Richard Playford
Level - 4
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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