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SS 123 Applied Ethics Course Objectives

1. To familiarize students with the basic ethical systems.Students should be able to articulate these systems in the classroom and identify them in life situations.
2. To enable students to develop an informal ethical system by which to operate.This will largely by attempting to apply ethical precepts, principle and examples to a variety of contemporary ethical dilemmas.
3. To familiarize students with the most critical ethical issues facing modern society, so they will be equipped to take and defend a position in the community.   Students’ proficiency in this will be demonstrated in class discussions, papers, and presentations, but the ultimate test will be outside of the classroom, in the students’ daily life.
4. To challenge students to address these issues, not in an abstract or impersonal sense, but to practically apply them in specific case studies.
5. To equip and motivate students toward a lifetime of communicating ethical values to their families, churches, communities and other spheres of influence.