Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Organization

PPK Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management

Code

HRCM21-101

Title

Social Ethics

Usual semester

Autumn

ECTS

2

Language

en

Learning outcomes

Students will be familiar with the main subjects and issues of social ethics; know the major dilemmas of social ethics; know the key principles of social ethics (freedom, equality, brotherhood, justice, solidarity); know and be able to identify the emergence of social ethical dilemmas in different fields (bioethics, medical ethics, rule of law) know the major theorists of social ethics; elaborate the basic literature of social ethics; understand the theoretical background of assessment of ethical dilemmas; gain insight into the major ethical aspects of human resource counseling; learn to consciously process the ethical characteristics of crises that appear during the career path; consciously develop their source-exploration style in the field. Learning outcomes and competences Knowledge: to have a comprehensive view of social ethics, to learn the specificities of ethical thinking, to know the characteristics of ethical dilemmas Attitude: propensy of independent literature processing openness to understanding opinions and views openness to thought exchange, experimentation, reflection Skills: to be able to analyze ethical dilemmas and interpret their consequences creativity, associative ability to be able to analyze human relationship problems the ability to integrate personal experiences into scientific frameworks to be able to interpret and understandable explain abstract concepts to able to reflect on the ethical dimension of human relationships ability to conceptual thinking to be able to be up-to-date of the professional literature that helps their work to have ability to integrate others’ experiences, opinions and attitudes

Course content

Main content and thematic units Social ethics and society The place and organization opportunities of social ethics Material and formal ethics Ethics and aesthetics Ethics and law Ethics and politics The problem of conscience The problem of justice Ethical narrativity – ethical narratives Amorality – immorality – ethical anarchism – alternativity Professional and vocational ethics Ethical problems of human resource counseling and work psychology Planned learning activities and teaching methods Frontal, small group and individual work for processing theoretical knowledge.

Assessment method

Requirements: Active participation in classes at least 80%. Oral exam Topic: The subject of the exam is a topic of the semester based on pulling-an-item Method of evaluation: five grade Aspects of evaluation: construction of an oral exam current knowledge of the subject interpretation of interrelations, deduction of conclusions use persuasion and rhetorical tools skills of discuss and debate

Programmes of the course