ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to help students improve their ability to make ethical decisions in their daily life by providing them a framework that they can use to identify, analyse, and resolve ethical issues in decision making. The course will familiarize students with concepts such as morality, theory of right and wrong, the theory of value, what entails goodness and badness, and the theory of virtue and vice. After introducing these concepts, the course encourages students to think about ethical aspect of real life events and issues, make them analytically examine their position in social life and how they will deal with ethical issues.

ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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Course outcomes

1. 01 1. Elaborate on what moral judgments are and to see how they are integral to all decision
2. 02 2. Explain how to make moral judgments in the global world
3. 03 3. Examine moral judgments through theoretical study, reflection, and practices
4. 04 4. Apply theoretical moral principles in the evaluation and judgment of complex ethical issues in today's world
5. 05 5. Analyze the difference between ethics and morality.

Course Syllabus

Reference Books & Course Materials

1. 01 Louis, POJMAN, Ethichs: Discovering Right and Wrong, Cengage Learning, 2012

Learning Outcomes

1. L01 Elaborate on what moral judgments are and to see how they are integral to all decision SOLO 5
2. L02 Explain how to make moral judgments in the global world SOLO 3
3. L03 Examine moral judgments through theoretical study, reflection, and practices SOLO 3
4. L04 Apply theoretical moral principles in the evaluation and judgment of complex ethical issues in today's world SOLO 4
5. L05 Analyze the difference between ethics and morality. SOLO 4

Program Outcomes

1. P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
2. P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
3. P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
4. P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
5. P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
6. P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
7. P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
8. P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
9. P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
10. P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
11. P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
12. P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.

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